The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for Jun 4, 2023:

• How The Expanse: A Telltale Series Aims to Tell Their Small Story in a Large Universe — I’m eager to get my hands on this… it’ll be a Day One purchase.
• The Best Audio Porn Apps and Sites For Your Next Solo Session
• Motorola makes its 4th-gen foldable, the Moto Razr+, official — I watched a full review of this thing, and it’s indeed a neat little device. Conceptually, I’m all in favor of foldable phones. But nothing that expensive should feel even slightly compromised.
• The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom

• Meta beats Apple to the mixed-reality punch with $499 Quest 3 coming this fall — I’m going to need to see a lot more game footage before I get enthused about this. But if the leap from Quest 2 to 3 is big enough, this could be a big deal.
• The 7th Guest VR remake uses ‘volumetric video’ for 3D FMV scenes — I played the first hour or so of the original 7th Guest on CD, and as a result I’m not even slightly excited at the thought of returning to it today… but I will admit, they’ve done some nice work here.
• VR Assassin’s Creed, Stranger Things and Ghostbusters arrive on Meta Quest later this year
• ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ is Meta’s most ambitious VR game to date — I played an hour or two of the original Asgard’s Wrath, and my opinion was divided. There were moments where it created those feelings you only get from VR —a game’s sense of scale is completely different when you’re in it. But after I explored a while, it became clear it was less “a VR-first Skyrim” and more “a VR-first, SNES-era Zelda game”. I hope they’ve dramatically expanded it for the sequel.

• Amazon and Walmart are taking a rare $20 off of a set of four AirTags
• No Man’s Sky just launched on Mac with cross-play support — I’m curious to see how it performs on an M1… it was solid on a 2080 Super a few years ago.
• Meta’s Popular Quest 2 VR Headset Pricing Is A Roller-Coaster — Back down to $299, where it comfortably sat a few years ago.
• VW ID Buzz debuts three-row electric Microbus for the US with more power and space — My family briefly had an original bus back in the mid-‘70s, and it was one of my favorite vehicles. As a kid who wanted to disappear into the back of any car and spend the entire drive reading, all those rows of seats were awesome.

• Hit cat game ‘Stray’ is coming to Macs — I may actually give this a try now, ‘cause I love the look and the idea of it.
• VR Helped Me Visualize Gender Dysphoria