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Published 1 April 2024

Andy and both Michaels get together to talk tech — focusing on AI generated music, wearable etiquette and AR user experience with a dollop of security & privacy.

Starting off with a reprise from last week’s episode, the co-hosts enjoy a discussion about music sparked by Suno, which uses GenAI to create new songs. This harkens back to the conversation from last week, and extends with Andy raising the Rock Family Trees documentary and Michael R bringing up the Pandora Music Genome Project. Michael M remembers the discussion on Alex Murell’s The age of average, and how this might apply toward generating music.

Next up, the team takes a look at Harper Reed’s post on using an LLM to parse information captured from a variety of sensors in an office setting and post it to the office discord channel. This is pretty familiar to the co-hosts, and it brings Andy joy knowing that MQTT still surfaces in context like this one.

The Heinz Remix allows the conversation to flow to creating custom condiments. Then, the discussion turns to wearables and etiquette of when and how to wear them. An article from The Verge takes on all manner of potential discretions and indiscretions when it comes to the use of technology. Passive wearables such as the Oura Ring, to smart watches and other machines that go “bing” get their deserved attention. Devices with cameras pose special challenges, especially for people that are not familiar with the device and don’t know whether they are being recorded.

Next up after the etiquette discussion are some further ideas for augmented reality user experiences. An article from BGR describes how the Apple Pencil could be used by a Vision Pro wearer, and this reminded Michael R of the 3Doodler. This led directly to a game called Screenbound which presents a sidescroller game combined with a 3D experience – have a look at the link below to see how this works.

The team wraps up the episode with a couple of stories on security, and retro Flight Simulator & Commodore 64 topics.

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