On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, new products from Amazon & Oculus, Google challenges Apple Arcade, WeWork loses its CEO, Boston Dynamics utility robots are now commercial … and much, much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• Google Play Pass bundles 350 Android games and apps for $4.99 per month

Oculus Connect 2019

• Everything announced at Oculus Connect 6
  • Oculus Link
  • Facebook Horizons
  • Hand Tracking
  • Oculus Go Apps on Quest
  • Facebook Building AR Glasses

Audible Book of the Week

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
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Music Break: Echoes by Pink Floyd

Hot Topic: Amazon Hardware Event 2019

• The top 8 Echo products Amazon announced today

• In the Home

• • Echo Studio
  • Echo Show 8
  • Echo (3rd gen)
  • Echo Dot (w/ Clock)
  • Echo Flex

• On the Go

• • Echo Buds
  • Echo Frames
  • Echo Loop
• The biggest announcements from Amazon’s fall 2019 hardware event
  • Alexa Communications for Kids
  • Echo Glow
  • Alexa Smart Oven
  • Home Mode
  • Ring indoor camera
  • All-New Eero
  • Celebrity Voices on Alexa

Music Break: Working Day and Night  by Michael Jackson

Final Word

• WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down
  • WeWork has become poster child for everything wrong with tech unicorns

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Boston Dynamics Spot launch

• More Atlas parkour

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.