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All Things TechIE Podcast - Episode 140

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Dave says VR has no mass-market use case, but surgery, construction, and historical reconstructions do.

Justin Dawson opens from ISC 2026 at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. He points out that there are two FIRAs and jokes about what happens if someone gets sent to the wrong one. Dave Danto joins from Talking Points and immediately makes the conversation feel like a familiar trade-show catch-up. They mention that it has only been about a month since CES in Vegas. The talk moves quickly into the calendar of events that keeps both of them moving from show to show. Dave runs through Enterprise Connect, NAB, and Infocomm, and jokes that March and April may be rough on any marriage. He says he may have to stay home or else get divorced. He also mentions a trip in May to see glaciers before they melt. The two of them joke about wives, business trips, and which places are actually worth the travel. That banter sets the tone for the rest of the segment. From there, the conversation shifts to display technology and the promise of glasses-free 3D. They talk about lenticular screens as the mechanism that makes that effect possible. Sony comes up, along with other products in the space, including a notebook that uses the same idea. The problem, as they see it, is that many of these products are really built for one viewer at a time. That raises the obvious question of how any of this scales. Justin likes the direction Cisco seems to be taking, because the feature is framed less like a costly miracle and more like an extra capability when the screen supports it. Dave agrees that the industry feels close to something bigger than a small incremental upgrade. They also discuss an LED concept where the image changes depending on where you stand. That leads to a joke about a husband-and-wife TV, where two people could watch different programmes at the same time. The practical point underneath the joke is that display tech is getting more spatial, more selective, and more tied to viewer position. They connect that idea to the growing need for stereo visual capability and spatial video. Justin points to desktop products with two cameras as a sign that manufacturers are preparing for that future. The segment keeps returning to the feeling that the category is moving toward something more substantial than just sharper or brighter panels. They briefly revisit VR and whether the field is really dead or long live VR. By the end, the conversation is still rooted in the show floor, but it has widened into a bigger argument about what kinds of visual experiences will matter next. The closing turns back to the logistics of the week, including another show to come, an appearance with Simon Lang, and an early flight on Friday.

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Trade-show conversation that asks what new display hardware actually changes for people.

Set at FIRA Gran Via in Barcelona, the episode follows two lines at once: what was on show a month earlier at CES, and what comes next in travel and device design.

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You want the practical version of glasses-free 3D, spatial video, and booth-floor reality.

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