Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
There were several big announcements from the 'Made by Google' event, including the unveiling of the Pixel phone. Nathan Olivarez-Giles came on to tell us all about it. The PlayStation VR comes out next week and we have one to demo! Adi Robertson lets us know how it stacks up against the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Speaking of VR, Oculus Connect 3 happened earlier this week and Jason Howell was there to tell us about the games he loved and whether or not the new Oculus Touch controllers are worth the cost. We have the maker who built a laptop out of the Xbox One S, dubbed the Xbook One S. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ went to Maker Faire in New York and tells us all about the variety of new projects he found. Patrick Norton has some advice for SSD enclosures. All that and much more.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Snell
Guests: Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Adi Robertson, Jason Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Ed Zarick and, Patrick Norton
- Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Wall Street Journal was hands on at the big Google event. He gives his feedback on Pixel Phones, Google Assistant, Google Home, Daydream View VR and Google Wi-Fi.
- Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ went to to the World Maker Faire in New York and found it was more 'makery', from a 3D printer for circuit boards to a new project called Maker Pipe.
- Adi Robertson from The Verge gives us her review of the PlayStation VR. She talks with Leo and Jason about its features and the future of augmented and virtual reality games.
- Jason Snell answers your questions about saving your photos. To learn more about how to save photos go to: takecontrolbooks.com/photos-crash-course
- Ed Zarick is a maker that turned an Xbox One S into a laptop, the Xbook One S. He also shares his inspiration in building his own animatronic Weebo from Flubber.
- Jason Howell of All About Andriod and TNT attended Oculus Connect this week. Jason joins us to give us the low down on what we need to know.
The New Screen Savers will record live, every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on live.twit.tv. It will be made available for download and streaming later that evening at twit.tv/nss.
There were several big announcements from the 'Made by Google' event, including the unveiling of the Pixel phone. Nathan Olivarez-Giles came on to tell us all about it. The PlayStation VR comes out next week and we have one to demo! Adi Robertson lets us know how it stacks up against the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Speaking of VR, Oculus Connect 3 happened earlier this week and Jason Howell was there to tell us about the games he loved and whether or not the new Oculus Touch controllers are worth the cost. We have the maker who built a laptop out of the Xbox One S, dubbed the Xbook One S. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ went to Maker Faire in New York and tells us all about the variety of new projects he found. Patrick Norton has some advice for SSD enclosures. All that and much more.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Snell
Guests: Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Adi Robertson, Jason Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Ed Zarick and, Patrick Norton
- Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Wall Street Journal was hands on at the big Google event. He gives his feedback on Pixel Phones, Google Assistant, Google Home, Daydream View VR and Google Wi-Fi.
- Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ went to to the World Maker Faire in New York and found it was more 'makery', from a 3D printer for circuit boards to a new project called Maker Pipe.
- Adi Robertson from The Verge gives us her review of the PlayStation VR. She talks with Leo and Jason about its features and the future of augmented and virtual reality games.
- Jason Snell answers your questions about saving your photos. To learn more about how to save photos go to: takecontrolbooks.com/photos-crash-course
- Ed Zarick is a maker that turned an Xbox One S into a laptop, the Xbook One S. He also shares his inspiration in building his own animatronic Weebo from Flubber.
- Jason Howell of All About Andriod and TNT attended Oculus Connect this week. Jason joins us to give us the low down on what we need to know.
The New Screen Savers will record live, every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on live.twit.tv. It will be made available for download and streaming later that evening at twit.tv/nss.
