Episode 68 – WWDC, New Disneyland, E3 wrapup

 

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Geek News  

We begin with…

WWDC

Apple had their developer conference this week and announced great new features and products including:

  • Apple is upgrading the operating system for the Apple watch to WatchOS 3-Can now keep apps in memory for instant launch.

  • OS X is now macOS and the news version will be called Sierra.

 

  • iCloud will have the ability to manage files for you to keep the desktop universal across devices and make sure you don’t run out of room.                                                                                 

  • Emojis are 3X bigger and you can auto-highlight words to replace with emojis with one tap.    

 

Facebook is stalking you

Facebook has reached partnerships with point-of-sale systems like Square and Marketo to link purchases to viewers of Facebook ads. Facebook also can now match GPS, beacons, WiFi, radio signals, and cell towers with real-world locations to show when you visit a store. Facebook aggregates and anonymizes the data, but there is no way to opt out of it, without turning off location services entirely for the Facebook app. Data from the new system will show up in the Store Visits metric in Facebook’s ad performance dashboard.    http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/facebook-knows/

 

Star Wars AR

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Magic Leap, the augmented reality company that hasn’t shown more than a glimpse of a working prototype to the public, is partnering with Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic on a semi secret lab. Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz told the Wired Business conference the lab will be based in San Francisco. To celebrate this partnership they released a AR video of CP30 and R2-D2 chatting in some guys living room.

https://youtu.be/lP5ZZI05A3g

http://www.cnet.com/news/lucasfilm-plans-secret-lab-with-magic-leap-to-put-a-star-wars-filter-over-your-world/

 

Disney Shanghai Opens

The latest Disney theme park and resort in Shanghai, China opened this week in a gala spectacular. The new Shanghai Disneyland becomes the sixth Disney theme park and resort overall, and the second one in Asia after Hong Kong Disney. It took over five years, $5.5 billion dollars, and an until now unheard of cooperation between the Chinese and American governments for it to happen.

https://youtu.be/x94NGWXVFnA

http://nerdist.com/shanghai-disneyland-opens-with-spectacular-3-day-gala-event/

 

Supergirl casts Superman

Last week, word broke that Supergirl would be featuring the title character’s famous cousin, Superman, in the second season premiere. Today, The CW confirmed casting on TV’s new Man of Steel: one Tyler Hoechlin! Best known for his role as Derek Hale on the Teen Wolf Tv series.

http://nerdist.com/supergirl-casts-its-superman-in-teen-wolfs-tyler-hoechlin/

 

New Cast added to American Gods

Deadline reports that Orlando Jones (Madiba, Sleepy Hollow) has been cast in American Gods, Starz’s upcoming straight-to-series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel, American Gods.

Jones will play Mr. Nancy, the old African trickster god more commonly known as Anansi, and one of Mr. Wednesday’s (Ian McShane) oldest confidantes.

Other big names attached to the cast include Crispin Glover (Mr. World), Gillian Anderson (Media), and Cloris Leachman (Zorya Vechernyaya).

https://deadline.com/2016/06/american-gods-orlando-jones-cast-starz-adaptation-1201773359/

 

Glover to join Spiderman Homecoming

Donald Glover has joined the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' upcoming reboot for the webslinger set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While his exact role in the film is still under wraps Glover has had a history with the franchise. Fans campaigned for Glover to be Spider Man in the 2010 reboot and he’s even voiced Miles Morales for Disney’s Ultimate Spider Man.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11934388/donald-glover-spider-man-homecoming-casting

 

Netflix Picks Up Ricky Gervais’ ‘The Office’ Spinoff Movie

Ricky Gervais revealed that his latest film, David Brent: Life On The Road, a spinoff of the original The Office, has been picked up by Netflix.

Set 15 years after the events portrayed on the original series, the film sees Brent still continuing his quest to fulfill his dreams of being a rock star. Thinking he’s going to be featured in a concert tour documentary, he’s actually being recorded for a “Where Are They Now?” style production.

https://deadline.com/2016/06/the-office-spinoff-david-brent-life-on-the-road-netflix-acquires-1201772548/

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm Returns

HBO announced this week that they are bringing back Larry David’s brilliant, award-winning comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm, for a ninth season.

Curb Your Enthusiasm follows Seinfeld creator Larry David about his life as a genuinely horrible person. From his fictional turn in The Producers on Broadway with Mel Brooks, Ben Stiller, and David Schwimmer to a fake Seinfeld revival with Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards, David can and will ruin everything he touches… in the most beautifully comedic way possible.

http://nerdist.com/stop-everything-curb-your-enthusiasm-is-coming-back/

 

Warcraft conquers box office overseas

Warcraft premiered this weekend in the U.S. only making $24.1 million. However, the movie made $156 million this weekend in China. Do U.S. numbers matter that much any more?

https://deadline.com/2016/06/warcraft-box-office-analysis-china-future-1201772400/
 

That’s it for Geek New.

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Now onto our Discussion section

(Music 3)

In our discussion section we talk about anything we find interesting that doesn’t fit in with the News section. This week we’re talking about…

The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016

First, I want to acknowledge that most of our predictions about what we’d see at E3 came true!

EA

(video 2)

Bethesda

(video 3)

Microsoft

(video 4)

Ubisoft

(video 5)

Sony Playstation

(video 6)

Square Enix

(video 7)

PC Gaming Show

(video 8)

Nintendo

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For the Geek Bytes Podcast I’m Ramon Mejia and I’m Edgar Acosta. Now Go Geek out about something.

(Music 4)

Music Credits

"Happy Bee", "Movement Proposition", "Theme for Harold (var.3) ", "Take the Lead"

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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