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Byteside: tech + digital culture
by Byteside
It's the world through the lens of technology and digital culture. How tech has come to influence everything around us. How do we make sure it's all happening for the benefit of humans? The world is dominated by all things geek and nerd today. So what happens next? We're here to work it out. Send us your input via @byteside on Twitter! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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How Dragon Talk welcomed us through D&D's best decade yet
Usually I spend my time on the Byteside podcast chatting to creatives or engineers about things they've been hard at work building for the future. So on the surface it seems strange to say we're here to talk to two people from the Wizards of the Coast marketing team - but, for me, Greg Tito and...
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The future of trust and security
This episode was sponsored by IBM The nature of trust and security online has been a big challenge throughout the pandemic, but the events of 2022 have tested these issues like never before. We had been planning this sponsored episode for many months, but when it fell into place this turned out…
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The future of sound production at Trackdown Studios
We're talking to Elaine and Craig Beckett from Sydney's Trackdown Studios about how the studio has built a stellar reputation across the world for the quality of its audio production for film, TV and videogames. From Mad Max Fury Road to The Crown, World of Warcraft to The Boys, Trackdown has…
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Engineering for a clean future
Rosie Barnes is a mechanical engineer working in wind farm and clean energy technology and during the pandemic she started sharing her knowledge via YouTube. From explaining the basics to going deep with other experts, she's working hard to build that clean energy future – and help the rest of us...
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Can Slack's Huddles end a lot of 30 minute meetings?
Slack proved its value during the past few years and its addition of Huddles in 2021 helped to find a great new middle ground between formal video meetings and text chat for general updates. Huddles is now being extended with new features to make it even more useful for quick creative brainstorms...
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Does Meta's VR Turing Test ambition make sense?
It's our 73rd episode of the Byteside podcast but it was also our first time recording as a video podcast! Will it be the last? Nic Healey and Seamus Byrne catch up on recent news - Seamus digs Meta's VR Visual Turing Test and isn't so down on Diablo Immortal as a very casual bit of mobile fun.…
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Can beer be more efficient? Konvoy is showing the way
It's great to get back into a pub and have a draft of the good stuff again. But moving beer from brewery to bar is a logistical mess that only got harder during lockdowns. Konvoy has been helping brewers make all that easier with data-enabled kegs and a system that not only makes moving them…
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Is the DGTO really going to help?
For a long, long time, Australian federal governments have left game developers out in the cold when it comes to simple support mechanisms like tax offsets. In 2021, the government announced the Digital Games Tax Offset – a big step forward for supporting investment in game development in...
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Inside the weird world of Devolver Digital
Games publishers usually have a notorious reputation for being money grubbing beasts who want to wring every last drop of creativity from talented game makers as quickly as possible until the talent loses faith in the games industry and quits, making room for new talent. Rinse and repeat. And…
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Is Fortnite a beachhead for the metaverse?
We speak to the two creative developers behind the Fortnite ANZ project – Simon Bell from Alliance Studios and R-leeo Maoate from Zen Creative – and get their thoughts on how Fortnite's creative tools are evolving to give them increasingly exciting capacity to make huge virtual experiences. From...
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Dreamshaping for everyone: Media Molecule's Siobhan Reddy
We last spoke to Media Molecule Studio Director Siobhan Reddy just before the pandemic rocked the world. For a studio so focused on highly creative games, from Little Big Planet to Tearaway and their amazing current focus, Dreams, how has the crisis impacted on their own creativity? And what does...
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Stephen Cornish, Pentanet Founder, on the future of networks
Pentanet has grown rapidly in just four years, though it's still only available in Perth. But in our chat with Founder Stephen Cornish we learn why perfecting one of the world's most advanced wireless mesh network technologies in one city is the best way to prepare it for wider deployment in...
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Putting some heart into Far Cry 6
We talk to Far Cry 6 Narrative Director Navid Khavari about putting a story with heart into a game best known for its flambuoyant and chaotic open world environments. With a great line up of actors and an effort to dig a little deeper on building a believable story, Khavari talks about his team's...
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Australia's first digital NBA pro, Meason Camille
Back in March, Meason Camille became the first Australian drafted into the NBA 2K League. Maybe some of you misheard me and were thinking "hang on, there's a bunch of Aussies in the NBA" we're talking about the esport, NBA 2K. It might be digital but Meason, or Mace, or Milo, had to be drafted by…
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145km/h VR: Brendan Doyle's skeleton racing edge
Feeling a little sad because the Tokyo Olympics finished last week? I am too. With so much of life in lockdown right now we had a great timezone match up here in Australia to enjoy the event, and while there was no one in the stands it was great to see it happen in the midst of such a tough time...
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Is it a game? Is it fitness? Yes, it's Zwift!
If you've been watching the Olympics at the moment you may well be feeling inspired to get fit or get into a sport, but the pandemic is also still out there so gyms aren't as attractive as they have been and team sports also pose their challenges right now. In that sense it seems like a great…
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Poly ANZ MD Andy Hurt on shifting AV from the office to the home
The most obvious part of the work from home era has been the need to stare at webcams while wearing headsets to hear and be heard as clearly as possible. These are the tools we've either put up with in their most basic form directly through our built-in laptop parts or we've hunted for upgrades –...
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Putting retro games on a streaming service? Meet Antstream Arcade CEO Steve Cottam
Steve Cottam is the CEO of Antstream Arcade, and I caught up with Steve for Byteside to talk about the origins of his plan to launch an independent game streaming service and all the ways they're adding features to make playing classic games through the Antstream platform feel that little bit...
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Welcome – back, again, or for the first time
If you're hearing this, you're in the right place. We're consolidating our wider shows about games and technology into the One True Byteside podcast, so we'll have lots more interview shows appearing here going forward alongside our episodes with journalist friends discussing the news and…
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Do esports need beer? Are we actually enjoying Loki?
Seamus has Nic Healey back as a guest host this week to discuss the Gravitas Glory esports beer, Nic's desperation in still trying to get his hands on a PlayStation 5, and our thoughts on whether we're really enjoying the Loki series on Disney+ or just in love with its aesthetic. Plus we count…
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It's about time
The Byteside podcast is back, and it's got a familiar ring to it. We catch up on the first half of 2021 and what we've been watching and playing, then we look at some of the most interesting updates out of WWDC and wonder whether Fastly outage was a big deal or a small one. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Enhance and augment
This week we explore the state of imaging technologies across a wide range of areas, from Adobe's new Super Resolution technology to deepfakes. The tech is amazing and clever but are the creepy parts doing OK at not being too creepy? Plus a look at recent announcements for virtual and augmented...
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The WandaVision post-mortem: with live caller input!
This week it's a WandaVision deep dive, with spoilers galore now that the series has wrapped. The first Marvel series at Disney+ became the most watched show ever on streaming (so far), so how do we feel about it all now it's done? What does it say about the future of Marvel TV? And is it more...
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States of play: what's coming next from Nintendo, PlayStation and Microsoft's XR labs?
Byteside episode 55 This week we've caught up on the latest news from Nintendo Direct and Sony's State of Play to talk about what's looking good on the gaming horizon. And will digitally packaged 'event' drops like this become the norm with yet another year of no E3? Plus we look at some of the...
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Stream for me: the state of video on demand in Australia in 2021
With the addition of Star to Disney+ this week, Alice, Chris and Seamus take stock of the state of the video streaming scene today. The services we use personally, the ones we love best, how we juggle getting the best value, and whether it's good or bad to have so so many services out there these...
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Smart home tech for fun and horror
Seamus, Alice and Hope discuss their own experiences with smart home technology – across lights, doors, appliances, sound and more. We look at the pros and cons, both technical and social, and even end up with some stories of where the tech gets horror movie creepy when it goes wrong. We promise…
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Fitness+ in Kaldheim
An all-new, all-different Byteside as Alice and Chris join Seamus for the start of a new era. This week all three have spent time with Apple’s Fitness+ service during the summer, so all have opinions to share on the value of having fitnesses classes on tap through your Apple Watch. What’s good?...
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Virtually from CES 2021
We're back for 2021 and it's CES week so Seamus and Nic explore what's caught their eye during this virtual, online version of the show. TVs? Yes. Rollable mobile screens? Indeed. Toilets? You betcha. Plus Nic's commitment to the Telstra Xbox deal and Seamus finding it's too late to save himself...
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Spams, scams and monolithic weirdness
On the last episode for 2020, Nic and Seamus deliver a full dose of "tech, gaming and digital culture" angles. We talk NBN upgrade pricing, the government's new plan to deal with spam and scam calls, and whether we really will miss something now that console games have ridiculously short loading...
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Subscribing just to avoid the ads
This week we're looking at a bit of spy agency "incidental" capture of some COVIDSafe data and what that means, as well as what we're subscribing too for our entertainment and how YouTube has big plans to take over the full range of what anyone might want from a music service (musicians…
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Fleeting fingers and free photo farewells
Nic and Seamus discuss the M1 again now that the benchmarks are in, plus the end of Google's free photo storage and what that means not just for the future but for the past five years of innovation in photo services. Plus Twitter rolls out fleets (not that we've seen them yet) and we wonder what...
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Enforced temptation control?
This week Nic's back and we're looking at a mixed bag of shiny new tech and some digital dilemmas. We check out Apple's new laptops with its own chips – and how should we talk about amazing speed claims before we've had the chance to test the benchmarks for ourselves? Plus Yondr in Australian...
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Byteside special: Sony PlayStation 5 reviewed
We've got a special double episode of Byteside to share over the next two days. In the last show, Seamus Byrne and Alice Clarke looked at the Xbox Series X (and Series S), with both having review units over recent weeks. This time it's the PlayStation 5's turn! What's the future of PlayStation…
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Byteside special: Xbox Series X reviewed
Seamus Byrne and Alice Clarke discuss and debate the merits of the new Xbox Series X, with both having review units over recent weeks. What does the future of Xbox look like? And what about the new controllers? Should you be running out the door to knock people over to find one? Or is it OK to...
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We owned a bit of Quibi too?
This week we talk about two areas the government wasted money on technology – COVIDSafe... but Quibi too? We talk about the death of Quibi, the failures of COVIDSafe, what both could have done to be better, and Seamus even has an idea for how COVIDSafe could have been pivoted to help better as...
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Apple new iPhone day 2020
It's not all about the new iPhone 12. It's more about how good the MagSafe era is going to be. But we also look at electric vehicles in the regions, game soundtracks hitting the ARIA awards, and the World of Warcraft Shadowlands pre-patch and why 16 years later is the perfect time to try WoW. We...
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Your amazing dystopian flying family drone
Hand on heart, this is the loosest show yet. Very 'two white guys doing a podcast' loose. Apologies in advance. But we do talk a lot about tech! This week, Seamus and Nic talk more about the new NBN plans, and a surge in TIO complaints with ISPs disappearing call centres causing major distress....
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Maybe fibre is better?
Turns out it's still hard to pre-order a game console when online stores fall apart. We check in on whether Nic or Shay decided to pre-order anything or wait it out post-launch. This slides into the whole Microsoft buying ZeniMax Media thing and all the studios that brings, and whether this leads...
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Phreaking brilliant
Last week was Xbox Series X news, this week we get Playstation 5... but not quite yet, so we make our bold predictions that are sure to be wildly inaccurate within 24 hours. Plus a look back at how incredibly perfect our predictions were about Xbox last week (if you could check for us that'd be...
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That TikTok video
How do we deal with viral videos that can put "things you can never unseen" into the social media feeds of every user of a platform? And the trolls that keep trying to beat the algorithms in their attempt to stop the spread? Plus we look at the new Xboxes again now we know US pricing and the fact...
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Australia vs Facebook & Google
This week, Nic and Seamus talk about the battle over digital ad revenues and the effort to demand Facebook and Google give money to the media industry. Is this a hangover from the wild west days of the internet? Does this really fix anything?should be regulated, what might that be? Plus Nic has...
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Apple vs Epic vs Batman's eye makeup
This week Seamus and Nic look at the Epic battle between Apple and the company that makes the Unreal Engine and Fortnite (yes, that's Epic), and why Seamus still loves Apple but just wants it to focus on controlling the right parts of its App Store. Plus we look at the DC Fandome event and how...
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Who really wins in the search wars?
This week Nic and Seamus look back at the things in old games that young kids won't understand, and then forward to what kids today might experience that one day will feel like a relic of the past they get to call their own. Plus Google fights Australia and what is going on with all this? Is…
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The awkward brilliance of game storytelling
It's a game-y sort of week at Byteside, kicking off with a book that included accidental game references in its very real historic fiction. When you do your research, double check your research... Plus game narratives and the difficulties in embracing the story while also trying to enjoy the game...
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The agony and ecstasy of Dolby Atmos
What's the deal with all the new cassette tape sales out there? Is this a legit kind of love or just some performative nostalgia? Then we leap into the cutting edge of home theatre as Seamus explains his struggles to get Dolby Atmos working with a Sonos Arc and an LG CX OLED TV – but once he did,...
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COVIDSafe: did tech or marketing fail?
Seamus and Nic the case of the missing SBS OnDemand from consoles, the mystery of what's gone wrong with the pitch versus the reality of COVIDSafe, and the bizarre realm of a Global Esports Federation that doesn't seem to do things that actual esports people would understand. Plus WWDITS and why...
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Scam Poetry
Seamus quickly admits that he can't quit Facebook and Nic can't get money back from Wish. But at least there's flying cars coming to outback New South Wales! All this plus another story of dodgy online deliveries and a great upgrade to D&D Beyond for the D&D nerds that can help us play anywhere,...
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Can Seamus really quit Facebook?
Nic hits Seamus with a surprise grilling about his intentions to make a permanent exit from Facebook. Can he genuinely follow through on his threats? What are his plans to solve all the gaps it creates in communicating with friends and family? Then the show turns to lighter fare, like the…
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Careful what you Wish for
Nic shares a baffling experience from a recent online shopping expedition, and Seamus explains the Mixer mess and what it means for having a viable live streaming ecosystem that isn't just the one backed by Bezos billions. Plus WWDC news and some hot tips of the week! Hosted on Acast. See...
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The weirdest tech story of 2020 is here
In an already very weird year, this undoubtedly takes the trophy with six months left to play. It's got cockroaches, pig masks, and senior executives of one of the biggest tech companies in the world. What a journey this one is. Expect the movie in 2022. Plus Nic and Seamus look at the latest...
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It's the world through the lens of technology and digital culture. How tech has come to influence everything around us. How do we make sure it's all happening for the benefit of humans? The world is dominated by all things geek and nerd today. So what happens next? We're here to work it out. Send us your input via @byteside on Twitter!
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