Name: Joe Rogan Experience #696 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy
Uploaded: 2015-09-17T11:31:52.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #696 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-09-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #696 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-09-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #696 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy

What a perfect time to have Lewis from Unbox Therapy on when our TriCaster is
taking a big fat shit because we updated the software and then Redband decides
right before the show he's going to update his phone and it's going to take
about 17 fucking hours right in the middle of someone from the DMV supposed to
call him and that's never going to happen now.
I think you guys planned it this way. You heard I was coming down. It's like
let's cause as many technical difficulties as possible and then put him on it.
Let's see how much this guy really knows.
Yeah, exactly. Unfortunately, the TriCaster is a little outside the realm of my
day-to-day, but I wish I could help.
Jamie said, oh, we've got to update the software. So I go, okay. And then I
thought about it. I was like, man, I don't update shit.
That's right. I will wait several versions before I update my phone or, you
know, it always annoys me. Apple's always asking me to update.
Yeah, no, that's certainly the move, especially if it's like a mission critical
thing like your phone, your main device when you're waiting for a phone call or
your TriCaster, for example.
Yeah, this fucking thing, Jamie. Jesus Christ, boy.
I think the video's off.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The video's off?
I'll figure it out.
Uh-oh.
Oh, we have no video right now.
I'm recording it on here.
Well, it doesn't matter.
The video's not on Ustream? It's not even going live?
The audio is not.
So you fucked it twice. It's double fucked now.
Terrific.
Terrific, folks.
If you're viewing this right now, enjoy the blackness.
Yeah.
That's what, all black lives matter, including the black lives.
Coming out of that TriCast.
Blank fucking screens.
How dare you, Jamie?
You didn't even test this shit out?
How dare you?
Anyway, for everybody looking at a blank screen right now, like me, I'm looking
at the blank screen.
Most of the people, unfortunately for you, are audio only anyway, so.
Oh, it's true, yeah.
Listen after the fact.
Unboxed therapy, though.
100% video.
Yeah, very important to me.
Couldn't get by with audio on its own.
Yeah, we're supposed to be showing this, Jamie.
Oh, you could periscope it.
No.
No.
Little side periscope angle.
Well, okay, but what are we going to do about the video?
I'm working.
No, the video's still recording on here.
Right, but it's not showing.
I know.
I'm working on it.
So it'll record on here, and we'll be able to put it on YouTube, and you think.
Maybe.
Allegedly.
Huh?
As long as this is recording, I should be able to.
Okay, allegedly.
All right.
By the way, nobody hears you talk.
I will draw the whole episode, just in case.
We have hired a court reporter.
Transcript.
Old school tech.
So what is it you got here, man?
Oh, yeah.
This virtual reality, this is fascinating for people who can't see this.
It's virtual reality.
It's like a goggle set up with, on the front of it, is a Galaxy S6.
Correct.
So a Samsung Galaxy phone is strapped to this headset, so the screen is your
field of view.
That's right.
Yeah, and there's two lenses there, so I'll just open it up real quick.
So the phone sits in and clips out.
Obviously, you still want to use it as a regular phone.
And those are the lenses that will allow you to focus in on the display at an
incredibly close range.
Now, the nerds out there, they talk a lot about the resolution of phones.
And some say, oh, well, there's no need to have a phone with a display beyond
1080p, let's say.
Because at this range here, you would never notice those pixels.
But the minute you stick them in an environment like this, just an inch away
from your eyeball, all of a sudden, you can discern those pixels that you
couldn't at phone usage range.
So what happens with people who wear glasses?
Glasses can fit in there.
Okay.
Yeah, you can go with glasses in there.
There's a focus on the top here.
So you can actually focus them in, you know, depending on what vision
correction, whatever you have going on.
I've used it with glasses, contact lenses.
So you can adjust it like a pair of binoculars?
Exactly.
Ah, cool.
Yeah, exactly.
So the cool thing in this particular case, compared to, like, some of the other
stuff that I've shown off before, like Google Cardboard and the really
inexpensive,
ones, is that since this is designed specifically for this device, you get a
touch interface, touchpad for controlling taps and stuff.
On the side.
This here, yeah.
So that's just like the bottom of your laptop.
Sort of, yeah.
Like a little clickpad, trackpad kind of situation.
So you have a little bit of interactivity there.
Other than that, I mean, it sort of does what it looks like it does.
Do you think we should try it out or what?
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, okay.
It's cool that this stuff is finally coming to light now, because this was
always, when we were kids, we thought this was the future.
Oh, yeah.
And I kind of think it still is.
Oh, it is.
It just took a while for the technology to catch up to, you know, what we
expected from it.
So I'm going to get it set up here.
Okay.
Let me just...
I got a call from Duncan Trussell once.
He came back from some conference that they had on virtual reality.
And I'll never forget this, because I was standing in front of the improv, and
he's screaming,
Dude, this is bigger than the fucking wheel.
This is bigger than the internet.
This is bigger than everything, man.
This is a fucking game changer.
Dude, it's a fucking game changer.
It's virtual reality.
It's what the future is.
He just got back from checking out the newest Oculus Rift, the one that you
were talking about,
the piano demonstration.
Yeah.
So that one...
Is the mic here?
Sorry, I can't see anything anymore.
So this one was built sort of in conjunction with Oculus.
So there is an Oculus store and library app that you boot into when you put the
phone into the headset.
So a lot of the demos that are available on Oculus are also available here.
Wow.
So I'm going to bring up...
I'll bring up that one with the piano, and then I'll let you check that out.
Oh, you can do it right from that?
Yeah.
So that's as good as Oculus Rift?
Well, I wouldn't go that far.
I would say it's more convenient than Oculus Rift and probably arguably more of
a game changer
in the sense that people don't have to go out and buy this standalone expensive
headset
and then have a dedicated PC to use it.
Right.
Everyone has a phone, right?
So you're already halfway there.
This...
Ari Shafir doesn't have a phone anymore.
Oh, I heard about that.
I heard about that.
How do you feel about that when someone fucking completely bails since you're
such a technology junkie?
You want to know?
I have...
For folks who don't know what we're talking about, Ari Shafir gave up on
smartphones.
She just uses a flip phone now.
I kind of get it.
Yeah.
Because I feel like I'm so immersed in tech sometimes that I would love to take
a step away for a minute.
Like you just booted that phone up.
You said you hadn't booted it in a while.
Yeah.
It's like...
All these texts were coming in.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it would be a really interesting experiment to see how many times that
thing interrupts my day.
Like a smartphone.
Because it's probably, I don't know, a thousand times maybe.
It really trains you like a buzz caller on an animal or something like that.
So anyway, you want to stick this on and check it out?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure.
So...
It looks cool.
For people who are just listening at home, it looks like something Stormtroopers
would wear.
Yeah.
It's plastic.
And, uh...
You can...
There's straps that you can tighten it.
I don't know if you feel...
Yeah, I'll try to...
Yeah.
It's a good look on you.
Thank you very much.
I think something came off.
Yeah, it just go...
It just slips through.
No, right there.
Yeah.
Just like a pair of...
Just slips through?
Yeah.
Just like a pair of...
That's an Elkro?
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
It's like a pair of ski goggles, pretty much.
Now, you said this also has Bluetooth, so you can hook up, like, headphones
wirelessly also.
Right.
So every capability that the phone has is still theoretically active.
You know, so...
How do I...
Are you focusing in?
Yeah.
So try and find the spot where the text...
Is there text on screen right now?
Yeah.
It says touch the touchpad to resume.
There you go.
Oh, wow.
Are you in that space right now?
Yeah.
No, it's better with sound, but this is still pretty good.
And if you...
So I'm watching this guy play the piano.
See if you can find the dog.
Oh, my God.
This is nuts.
Yeah, man.
I'm...
Okay.
This is...
For people who are just...
They don't know what I'm doing here.
I'm looking around the room.
At first, I'm just looking at this guy playing piano, and it's kind of cool,
although he is a little annoying.
I don't like the way he sings.
Do you see the smoke?
Do you see the smoke coming off his cigarette in the ashtray?
I don't see the ashtray.
No, it's beside the piano there.
Yeah.
It's slightly pixelated.
I wouldn't say it's perfect.
Yeah.
It's not high resolution.
But I heard that the Oculus version is.
It is.
What are you looking at, bitch?
Yeah.
He looks at you every now and then.
Dude, this is so fucking strange.
I'm looking around this guy's studio.
He has this recording studio here.
I'm just kidding about him.
I'm annoying me, by the way.
I'm just trying to be funny.
And then he puts his phone in his ashtray.
What?
He's throwing shit on the ground.
I guess he's acting.
He's acting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, he knows what he's doing.
He has a 360 camera there.
He's got a fake tree in his room.
And as you look around his studio, like everywhere you look, you can see stuff.
This is the real.
What's really a game changer about this technology is that it's really 360
degrees.
Yes.
Like as you look, everywhere you look, there's something to look at.
And that is fucking strange, man.
Yeah.
If they do this with movies, you'll be able to watch movies over and over again
because
you'll be able to look at it from different – okay, now I see the smoke on a
cigarette.
There you go.
I have a feeling he makes really whiny music.
Well, you're probably right.
To be honest, I really wasn't listening.
It was more about the visual.
Yeah, I'm kind of glad I can't hear him sing.
But there's another one in there, another demo, which is you sitting inside a
movie theater.
And so you see the seats around you.
Whoa.
And as the trailer plays on the make-believe movie screen, the colors coming
off of it are reflecting off the seats.
And it gives you an incredible feeling of the exact vibe of being inside of a
theater.
I have the original Oculus Lift, and that was one of my biggest –
What did I say?
Lift.
Lift.
That – it was really pixelated.
You get the idea how cool it was.
Now, is that comparable to that, or is this more –
No, no, there's many levels better than that.
Better than that one?
Yeah.
Here, put it on.
It's many levels better than the pixelated one that Duncan had.
Right.
Duncan had the Series 1, which was like a –
Yeah, I think they were like VGA screens or something.
I might be wrong about that, but yeah.
It was kind of like playing Doom, like the old school Doom.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you kind of got a sense that this was a game changer.
Of where it was going to go, yeah.
Yeah, because even though it was so pixelated, you're like, well, they're going
to work that out.
They're going to iron that out.
Here you go.
She's going to try and walk around.
This is dangerous right now.
Yeah, don't walk into the TV, dude.
Just stand still.
I like that dog.
Yeah, the dog looks cool.
Yeah, don't talk off mic either.
I just tried to touch the dog.
Yeah, and the thing – and part of the conversation here is about content too.
It's like, well, how do you go from having a piece of video and turning it into
360-degree video like he's watching right there?
And we're seeing more and more 360 cameras come out now.
There's one from Google called Jump, which is this crazy GoPro contraption you
may have seen.
It's six or more GoPro