This week we avoided traveling to Las Vegas for CES and instead tried to absorb all the news coming out of the show from the comfort of our desks. Listen on for some loose chatter about goggles-shaped VR headsets, Samsung's entry into the OLED market, the travails of dealing with the latest HDMI standard, the latest from AMD and Nvidia, Will's Vegas survival dos and don'ts, and more.Stories discussed in this episode:CES attendance plummets 70%, E3 in-person canceled:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ces-gadget-show-turnout-falls-more-than-70-25-thanks-to-covid/ar-AASzFiwhttps://venturebeat.com/2022/01/06/e3-shifts-to-online-only-event-because-of-omicron-concerns/Panasonic's goggles-sized SteamVR headsethttps://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/panasonic-tiny-glasses-sized-steamvr-goggles-are-coming-this-spring/Samsung making its own quantum dot OLED panels:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/explaining-qd-oled-samsungs-display-tech-thats-wowing-ces/HDMI 2.1a sounds like a painhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022Nvidia announced 3050, 3090tihttps://www.anandtech.com/show/16671/nvidia-launches-geforce-rtx-3050-and-rtx-3050-ti-for-laptopshttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17173/nvidia-briefly-teases-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-more-details-later-this-monthAMD talked details on their 2022 CPU roadmap, Zen 4 launching this yearhttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17152/amd-cpus-in-2022-cesAM5 is the long term socket for Zen 4https://www.anandtech.com/show/17192/ces-2022-amds-nextgen-am5-platform-to-have-long-term-supportSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod
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