Iron Fist Cast

Marvel has found its newest superhero: Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones has landed the coveted series lead in Iron Fist. Iron Fist is set to be the fourth Marvel and Netflix collaboration, following Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and the forthcoming Luke Cage.

Iron Fist is Daniel Rand, who at age of 9 travels with his family from New York to a lost mystical city called K’un-L’un. After some tragic twists of fate, Rand is adopted by the city’s ruler and taught advanced martial arts and the mystical power of the Iron Fist. As an adult, Rand returns to his native New York and begins a career as a superhero.

Ready Player One casts Lead actor

Deadline reports the Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of Ready Player One, has cast Tye Sheridan as the lead actor to play Wade Watts, the main character in the story.

Tye Sheridan: X-Men: Apocalypse (Cyclops/Scott Summers), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Batman V. Superman To Get R-Rated Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray Release

In the wake of Deadpool’s rated R success Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is set to get an R-rated "Ultimate Edition" release on Blu-ray, according to the Classifications and Ratings Administration.

Titled Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition, the expanded cut is likely to be similar in scope to Batman V Superman director Zack Snyder's Ultimate Cut of Watchmen.

Doctor Who Streaming On Amazon Prime In March

This month the world wept as Doctor Who left Netflix with no apparent replacement to stream the hit show. Amazon though twitted this week that they will be streaming series 1-8 of the show on their platform, Prime Video, beginning in March.

http://nerdist.com/doctor-who-streaming-on-amazon-prime-beginning-in-march/

Atlas robot progresses, humans not so much

This week the people of Boston Dynamics posted a video of Atlas, a humanoid bipedal robot. Have you seen it?

It starts innocently enough. Atlas going for a stroll in the woods. Atlas picking up 10-pound boxes and putting them on shelves. Then the Canadian bully shows up. As Atlas tries to pick up a box from the middle of an empty floor an evil hockey player comes up and knocks the box out of Atlas’s hand. Atlas calmly tries to pick up the box again but the human starts sliding the box with the stick just out of Atlas’s reach. Eventually the human escalates to kicking Atlas down to the ground. As Atlas slowly rises back to its feet you can feel the plan to eventually rule all humans forming with rage in its processor.

Apple Vs the FBI part Duex

This week the Verge reports that a filing by Apple in response to a Eastern District of New York court request shows 13 Apple devices are subjects of court orders by the FBI in five different court districts, using the All Writs Act as justification. Additionally, the Manhattan District Attorney said his district alone had possession of 175 different devices that it was unable to decrypt.  

·       This week Apple filed a motion to vacate the court order requiring it to assist the FBI in cracking the passcode of an iPhone 5C. Apple said in a conference call that the FBI wanted a government OS and that Apple would have to build an “FBI forensics lab” at its headquarters. Apples filing denies that that the All Writs act provides a basis to “conscript apple to create software enabling the government to hack into phones.” It also argues the order would violate the first amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause to be free of arbitrary deprivation of its liberty.

·        Apple has received support from Verizon, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Google. All who plan to file an amicus brief in support of Apple in the San Bernardino case.

Sword Art Online: The Beginning, Game or PR project?

It’s been widely reported this week IBM and Namco Bandai have partnered up to create a VR game using Sword Art Online as it’s that the recently announced Sword Art Online: The Beginning is an actual virtual reality MMO game that’s in development, sponsored by IBM Watson, and that 208 lucky people selected to participate in an event in Tokyo in March will see a glimpse of the game’s “Alpha”.

Road to VR, a major source of VR news, wrote an op-ed piece examining the announcement made about the new collaboration between IBM and Namco Bandai. They point out several facts that lead them to concluded that Sword Art Online: The Beginning as a 20 minute VR marketing demo. It is a neat marketing stunt for both IBM Watson and the Sword Art Online anime/manga/movie.

1) Sword Art Online: The Beginning was announced as an ‘Alpha’ that is referenced is not an ‘Alpha’ in the game design sense. It is an “Alpha” in the fictional sense since the Manga and Light Novel set the fictional characters in a 'Beta' Version of the SAO world.

2)It is said that a certain Dr. Akihiko Kayaba has met with an IBM Researcher who, through Watson, have made the ‘Alpha’ possible. Dr. Kayaba, however is not a real person, he is a character in Sword Art Online who, inside the show, creates Sword Art World and the fictional NerveGear VR system.

3) The experience is not being created by a game design studio, but instead it’s being developed by an independent creative agency (with the very confusing name of 1→10), which has previously created a VR marketing experience for Pepsi.

4) Road to VR spoke with Shun Kubota, Editor in Chief of Mogura VR, the leading virtual reality publication in Japan. He confirmed that the marketing concept behind Sword Art Online: The Beginning is to show “what it would be like when the cognitive computing IBM is developing is used in future gaming technology.”

“So it is not actually a real game in development, it is just a marketing experience to show off VR, Watson, and Sword Art Online?” I asked. “Exactly,” Kubota told Road to VR.

We at GeekBytesPodcast are disappointed to too.