We just watched a couple of episodes of Grace. I hadn’t heard of it but there was a film crew in the village where my workshop is for a couple of days last week so I thought we’d check it out.
Based on the books by Peter James and based in and around Brighton and East Sussex. The Grace of the title is a copper. It’s a crime drama.
To me it was like when you hear actual police talking about how police work isn’t like on the tele, it’s mostly long, hard, monotonous, slow repetitive and often dull work that gets the result.
It was like someone decided to make a series using that format.
Once the novelty of seeing familiar streets and buildings had worn off, and the realisation that I could get that by looking out of my kitchen window there wasn’t much left.
None of this was helped by the unbelievably laggy ITV+ platform and the interminable adverts.
Managed to finally finish a third episode after 3 attempts then we made a pact to not watch any more.
On a brighter note, I haven’t seen a single episode of Succession but had a 40 minute meeting with the man himself (Tom?) on Saturday morning. Very pleasant he was too!
Watched Brendan Fraser’s Oscar winning turn in The Whale. Not sure if it’s because I also have a teen daughter or if it was just good script writing, but the ending had me sobbing.
Usually not fussed on this. Late adopter confession, but was curious. Kind of creepy with the eyes on the outside screen thing. Having only used it for a kitchen quote at Wren I’m probably not the target market tho😂 my 8 year old was absolutely loving it
As ever, Apple do it really well, but what is the target market for all that money.
We had some Microsoft HoloLenses at work for development and it’s great fun in augmented reality to shoot monsters coming out of your walls, or watch the solar system suspended in your living room. But once you’ve done that for a bit, what next.
They were heavy and uncomfortable to wear for even a short period and I suspect Apple won’t suffer from that. But will they really be light enough for you to want to wear them for enough time to watch a movie?
i tried the facebook version (oculus? i can’t remember) and it was fun for about three minutes. then i started feeling a little bit claustrophobic and self-conscious of the fact that i looked like an absolute idiot waving around the room at nothing. i kept thinking i’d get pickpocketed or kicked in the junk with absolutely no defense.
Yeah hear you, but my kids live in Fortnite with a headphones/mic and this is just a step on. Sad to say but it’ll be the next thing imo. We got moaned at about TV. I moan about Snapchat etc….rinse and repeat
i’m one of the small crowd of ppl who absolutely love vr but really i just play the same two games with the same group of friends that i have for ~6 years now. it was especially nice during the covid restrictions.
in some ways, to me, the ultimate value is just in having something easy and casual to do in the background to make having conversations easier. i have some mental barrier to calling some family members because i don’t have anything to talk about or am avoiding talking about something. however, it’s easy to hop on a game of vr mini golf and just spend time “together” in an environment that doesnt take and time or effort to get to. it can have the relaxing effect of watching tv with someone but obv much more interactive and you can have talk over it.
i’m priced out of the apple one, and it’s not something i’d ever wear around other people, but since i’m a believer of the potential it’s nice to see that vr/ar/etc is not quite dead yet
