The WAN Show: Oculus Acquisition Deep Dive, NVIDIA GTX Titan Z, Ripping Personal Backups Now Legal!

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Topic Timetable

----------Oculus Topics----------

0:04:30 - Oculus VR Acquired By Facebook
0:04:30 - Oculus Acquisition Overview
0:12:30 - How The Oculus Acquisition Started
0:22:00 - Security With Oculus and Facebook
0:27:27 - New York Times Post
0:32:10 - Indicators
0:57:30 - Possibilities
1:03:30 - Palmer's Reddit
1:06:20 - Oculus Hires Michael Abrash
1:09:23 - Eye Dislike Facebook T-Shirt
1:35:08 - Titanic II

----------Show Topics----------

1:10:59 - Intel Sponsor Spot
1:12:35 - Hotspot Shield Sponsor Spot
1:15:50 - Titan Z
1:21:16 - Nvidia Looks Beyond Maxwell
1:24:00 - More Bad News For Bitcoin

Extended Timetable

0:00:00 - Explanation of the Problems
0:01:00 - Apology About Lateness
0:01:50 - Introduction to Topics
0:03:02 - Introduction Video
0:03:25 - Hotspot Shield Sponsor Spot

----------Oculus Topics----------

0:04:30 - Oculus VR Acquired By Facebook

0:04:30 - Oculus Acquisition Overview
- 0:05:30 - Negative Angles
- 0:07:26 - Positive Angles

0:12:30 - How The Oculus Acquisition Started
- 0:13:15 - Palmer's Post
- 0:16:45 - Notch's Response
- 0:19:35 - Thread Concerns
- 0:20:20 - Facebook's Opinion

0:22:00 - Security With Oculus and Facebook
- 0:22:34 - Old Zuckerberg Comments
- 0:25:10 - Creepiness Factor

0:26:30 - Oculus Is Not Connected With Facebook (Funny)
0:27:27 - New York Times Post

0:29:24 - The Call
- 0:30:25 - Reactions

0:32:10 - Indicators
- 0:32:10 - Oculus Dropping Out Of Immersive Technology Alliance
- 0:34:16 - Where The Thread Started
- 0:35:19 - $75 Million Investment
- 0:35:50 - VG24/7 Article
- 0:37:00 - Ditto Posts
- 0:38:11 - Random Kickstarters

0:40:51 - John Carmack Is Now A Facebook Employee

0:43:09 - Change Of Pace
0:44:45 - Are You Done With VR Strawpoll - NOT LTT
0:46:40 - Strawpoll - LTT -

0:47:10 - Nvidia's Blog
0:48:45 - Notch's Post
0:51:30 - Strawpoll Results
0:52:00 - Opinions Are Changing
0:55:00 - Instagram and WhatsApp
0:55:40 - Google Instead Of Facebook
0:57:30 - Possibilities
0:59:00 - Linus Tangent
1:01:33 - Zuckerberg's Post
1:03:30 - Palmer's Reddit
1:05:55 - Carmack's Tweets
1:06:20 - Oculus Hires Michael Abrash
1:07:21 - Cancelling Preorders
1:09:23 - Eye Dislike Facebook T-Shirt

----------Show Topics----------

1:10:59 - Intel Sponsor Spot
- Linus Media Group covers PAX East
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1:12:35 - Hotspot Shield Sponsor Spot
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1:15:50 - TOPIC: Titan Z
- 1:18:40 - Asus's Gaming Branded Board
- 1:19:00 - Strawpoll -

1:21:16 - TOPIC: Nvidia Looks Beyond Maxwell
- 1:22:10 - NVLink

1:24:00 - TOPIC: More Bad News For Bitcoin
- 1:24:28 - Bitcoin Is Now Considered As Property

1:25:50 - Portal's Coming To Shield
1:31:40 - DirectX 12
1:35:08 - SEGMENT- Better Than Bieber - Titanic II
1:36:55 - Disk Media Ripping Will Be Legalized In The UK
1:40:00 - HTC One M8 First Impressions
1:47:00 - Strawpoll Result
1:50:00 - Outro Video