On this week's episode, Hackl and Kebler talk about Murderbot Diaries, a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series. Hackl and Kebler discuss the Figma Adobe merger failure. Hackl and Kebler talk about Marriott Bonvoy Land in Fortnite and Asgard’s Wrath 2 in VR. OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account. Kebler tries to break ChatGPT 4. Hackl and Kebler discuss Epic, Meta, and Unity joining the Alliance for OpenUSD.

Hackl interviews Nick Vinckier, Director of Corporate Innovation at Chalhoub Group.

Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.

Show Notes:

• Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series Murderbot
• Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
• Fortnite’s Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadness
• VR’s killer app has finally arrived” - IGN gave it a perfect score and called it a masterpiece
• OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model.
• Alliance for OpenUSD Unveils Roadmap for Core USD Specification and Ecosystem Collaboration
• Nick Vinckier on LinkedIn
• The hottest new climate technology is bricks

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