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What's Good Games
"herman miller" Discussed on What's Good Games
"Of your first box. That's code what's good 50 at factor meals dot com slash what's good 50 to get 50% off of your first bucks. Welcome back, everybody. It's the second segment of the what's good games podcast. This is where we're going to talk about video games we have played and preview events we have been to because boy oh boy, there's some fun ones this week and you know we got to start with our girl Brit and Resident Evil four. So I asked you earlier, is it Resident Evil four remake, the official name, but you're like, nah, they dropped it. It's just Resident Evil four. I think it's just Resident Evil four. I think this is the thing that people do these days. It Call of Duty. It's just called duty modern war. I don't know. It's confusing, but I think this is the reality we have to adjust to. Okay. It's a hard one to address to, but we can do it. So Capcom invited you to see it behind closed doors or something? So no, it was actually really interesting. So they just sent some footage my way, and they were like, here's some stipulations. You know, I want to call out everything I talk about is speculation. So I got to sit in my also shout out to Herman Miller for their embodied chair that they sent me that I'm absolutely freaking lutely loving, by the way. It is a review, but I just want to say like, oh my God. Wait, like a chair? This chair. Yeah, trying to spin it around. Oh, yes. I mean, it really makes a huge difference. And what you said at one time really cemented it for me. It was like, yo, like you sit in this thing all day. All week. And I was getting ready to pull the trigger on it and just pay for it. Obviously. Which is what I did. During the height of the pandemic in 2020, right when they released it. And I was just like, I can't. I'm in this chair all day. It's messing up my back. I was like, I don't care how much it is. Put it on the credit card. I'll deal with it later. Yeah, but it's worth it. It's like a bed, right? The investment for me anyway, I can already tell a huge noticeable difference in my butt in my bag, so it's great. Anyway, so this is not a Herman Miller review just yet. This is about Resident Evil four, the remake. So yeah, Capcom sent some B roll my way, some footage, and I got to look at it and tear it apart and overanalyze and speculate the crap out of it, but I'm not going to get too in the weeds with this because I mean let's be real. I don't want my lovely co host eyes to glaze over. And they aren't allowing us to show that footage, correct? They are but it has to be edited. Okay, so maybe we can put something together later. But for now, I have got the trailer that came out in the state of play, which happened last week. So if you guys want to take a look at that. Oh my God, look at his arms. Okay, anyway, yeah, so some of my big takeaways from the footage that I got to look at. One is this game is definitely taking a much more serious tone, and I know I've talked about that before, but I think this really kind of cemented it for me. And I say that because I got to see a segment. God, what is that thing? That is a plaga type B and that is the second type of plaga that can instigate you by biting your head off. That's what that is. Oh my God. It's got so many teeth coming up from so many orifices. Girl, it's just how I like it. Yeah, they're really scary. And you want to definitely dispose of them as soon as possible. Yeah, so anyway, like the darker tone. So there's a little silly bad guy in this game. His name is Ramon Salazar, and he's this little weasley looking dude. And all of Resident Evil four is very campy, right? But in this remake, they're definitely giving Ramon, for example, much more villainy aura to him. He acts more like a villain would. And some of the one liners that we used to know and love, like Leon would say, no thanks, bro he doesn't say that in this. He has a more serious and composed response. And part of you is like, oh, I'm gonna miss that. But then I also remember and I had the same thought with Final Fantasy 7. The original game still exists. So if you're someone who's really kind of struggling with this new tone of the resident before remake, just remember the old game will always be there for you. Those silly quips will always be there. And plus there are still some pretty funny one liners that I got to discover in my time playing the game and also through looking through the B roll. So like there's some still some surprises in there, which is really nice. Some other stuff we're seeing in this trailer and just in this I saw is how much they're really expanding on the level design. So in the original, there's a huge intense scene out on the battlements of the castle. And essentially, is you walk up these stairs and boom you're there. It's like one of your first introductions to the castle and the fight takes place. In this game though, you have different corridors and doors you need to go through and rooms and there's conversations between you and Ashley talking about what you see around you. And there's a whole new room that we see here with the plot a type B where Andrew was like, why are there so many teeth coming out of so many holes? That's a new area. And so I think this is really going to be a lovely fleshed out version. And I think this is going to be great. It's going to give newcomers a fully realized experience and it's going to give returning players stuff to look forward to. And so this, I feel like and I don't get really antsy and excited. This really could end up being the best Resident Evil game. This could be it. And that's hard for me to say. I mean, it's weird for me to say because I've seen you before was never really my favorite game growing up. I missed the T virus. I missed the zombies. I didn't like this action heavy, whatever the heck it was. And now seeing this remake and scene what they're doing with it and really appreciating how much effort is going into it. I'm like, I get it, you know? So it's very interesting to me. Obviously, I've only played personally the first maybe like 30 minutes of the game, so this is all just based off of stuff I'm seeing a little things I'm noticing. The other thing that I thought was really cool and I know game and former came out with a pretty big feature a couple of weeks ago, but if you haven't seen it, there are now side quests in Resident Evil four, which is pretty cool. And so essentially, it's easy. You just go around, pick up blue pieces of paper that are like, hey, find me a golden chicken egg, and then you get a reward of spinels, which are these jewels, and you trade them in for special items. So it sounds like the side quests can be very simple like that, or it can be much more in depth where you have to actually hunt what's called the cornea, which is, I think it actually translates to canine and Spanish. And that involves its own puzzle. And it's kind of like difficult to actually get to that point. So I think these side quests are going to range from very simple to a little bit more intricate. And again, something to look forward to, something new, and it's really cool that it even thought to added this to add this into there, which hell yeah. In the game you have a briefcase and I'm sure you ladies have seen this at some point or another, where you have to actually arrange your items inside the case. Yes. Yes. Yeah, so pretty iconic, right? This time I read, we actually have storage. So what am I? What a novel idea. So everything you don't want to fit in your case, you just stick it in storage, but I'm pretty sure you're going to have to be more smart about figuring out what you want to take with you and I don't know how frequent these storage cases are going to be. So that's really cool. But then was it something that was in the Resident Evil three remake? Yeah, storage cases have been around essentially in all of the games except for the original Resident Evil four that I can remember. So yeah, I mean, that makes sense, but it's like a cool like, okay, this is, again, modernizing it in a good way. And then the case itself, you can actually customize different cases to give you different perks. So if you have one case, it's going to be one thing. If you have another case, for example, drop more resources, and you can equip charms on your case, and then the demo I saw are the B roll I saw. It was chicken, which means when Leon eats chicken eggs, he gets more health. I mean, like, so when you open up your case, you have a little dangly chicken. I know. I think it's just some stuff like that. Let me see if there's anything else major I wanted to talk about really quick about all of this. Oh, well, we get to see a little bit of Jack krauser gameplay and he is a character that had a really confusing presence in the original Resident Evil because he had made an appearance in darkseid chronicles, but even if he had played, it's a whole thing. Anyway, if no one really knew why
TechtalkRadio
"herman miller" Discussed on TechtalkRadio
"But I bought this one through Google fi and I added the $4 a month insurance on it. So next time this happens, I just have to pay $50 and they'll send me a brand new watch. If this does happen again. I don't have to go through the whole process with American Express and all that. Kind of like Apple care, how they do that. But there's a lot of people out there that are saying, hey, we're really upset that you did not disclose this information to begin with. And a lot of people are, you know, $800 after buying two watches, you know? Now, after all, said and done before, you know, he had this mess up. How are you on that? Because I know you've tried, was it the tech watch is the one you bought on KickStarter? Oh, that was a while. Tick watch tick. Yeah. And I know you tried that. And there's many people listening that maybe, you know, Gloria has the iWatch. You got that one, but I mean, what are your thoughts about it? Well, I mean, compared to the TicWatch, it's much faster, much more responsive. I mean, both tick watch and in the pixel watch run native Android wear. Tick watch was running Android wear two, which was definitely an improvement over Android wear one, whereas the pixel watch now runs Android wear three, but even then, I mean, the tick watch was good for the price point. It did its job, but it was very laggy, it really took some time to move through the menus and it wasn't the greatest. But again, for the price point, it was not a bad watch by any means. But the pixel watch is much more snappier, much more responsive. And it's got better sensors on it. It tracks your sleep, it can do EKGs. Primarily use this for sleep tracking. And I really like the Fitbit integration with it, the sleep tracking seems to be pretty accurate. I haven't tried doing an EKG or anything like that. Yeah, it's a pretty decent watch. Can you use it without your phone or yes, I have the LTE model. Oh, that's cool. So it's got an E sim built in. I haven't really tried to use it without the phone. My phone is usually within range of it. Bluetooth. But yeah, no, it does have an E sim, so I technically can take and take and make calls, send text messages, do anything I can on my phone, I can do it on the watch without having my phone near me. And now you can get this in retail now, can't you? Yes, you can. Yep. All right, so I got a comment from Rick on our tech talk radio, Facebook page, which is tech talkers. It says when it's something you talked about, Justin. So when the pandemic started, my wife was forced to work from home, which he did not mind at all. And it soon became permanent. So I bought a secret lab's chair when Justin mentioned it. So secret labs are you listening? All right? There you go. Mention it back then from my wife's birthday to replace the Walmart special we had. She still uses it and loves it Justin is right, all the adjustability and contouring makes all the difference. Price was higher than I ever spent on an office chair and I never thought of a gaming chair for general office work until Justin mentioned it. But it reasonably priced over the others out there, not too much different in pricing compared to regular office chairs. Does the job well, thanks, Justin for the recommendation. Awesome, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love the chair. I really do. Secret lab makes some great chairs. Funny, you think you think a secret lab is expensive. You try looking up Herman Miller. Or human scale. Human scale. You're talking about $10,000 per chair. For a chair. It better be massaging me. Real hair. Yeah, exactly, right? All right, we need to take a break, come back. We'll have more with tech talk radio, Justin. We're going to find a website of the week we could share. But a couple of great guests lined up for you here in the next segment for tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm Justin let me find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back. Now, back to TikTok radio. Oh, he's great to have friends at the show and I definitely call him a friend of the show. Over the years, we've had him on quite a few times talking about the different ways to preserve your digital memories. Now, I know a lot of you listening, you do that. You'll have that box of photos under the bed or in the cabinet or worse in an attic or in a garage. And those could be lost. You look at the recent the events in California with a flooding or tornadoes, you know, we've had these elements that have affected homes are fires and you know, we always say the thing we're going to grab first other than our family members and our pets is that that book full of photos, but they're usually scattered. But the best way to preserve that is to get them digitized. And Mitch goldstone is the man behind scan my photos, always great to have him on the show. Mitch, thanks for coming on. Andy, great to be with you congratulations so many years and man, you covered everything from way back pre iPhone everything. Well, yeah, I mean, we've been doing this since 1996. And you know, it's just so much fun. That's why we do it. It's for fun, but we like to provide the information that all the listeners can certainly benefit and we know that digitizing those memories is something that people have thought about. They always say they're going to get to, maybe they've had a scanner and they thought they could do it. They scan a couple of photos and then they get tired. You have a process that captures the best way to not only do the memories we have from those photos, but film old video. So that it's always preserved. Absolutely. And we now do slide carousel scanning too. That was it's all about listening to customers. We've been doing this
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"I want to sit in this bad boy. I want to see what makes it different from the higher end models. And kind of get a feel for what is this like a chair that's more geared towards gamers at a price point because like you mentioned Paul the one, the higher tier ones are re skins of existing Herman Miller chairs that look gamer esque. But I'm wondering what functionality this one offers that could be any different, but it looks really interesting. Yeah, it's not clear there's any functionality other than just being ergonomic. I wonder if we end up seeing a $500 price point in this Herman Miller range, which would be very un Herman Miller like, right? That's just not Herman Miller's territory. This is very, very high end furniture. As we're creeping to like a $1000, I get it, it's still a lot of money for a chair. But in the Herman Miller world, this is not a lot of money. This is just not an expensive chair anymore in that world. And so it'll be interesting to see how far down market they move with this collaboration and how far away it gets from sort of being a Herman Miller product and more just like a Logitech plasticky product. Stewart says, I feel like we're cheating on Jeff by talking chairs without him in the room. Stewart, I love that comment, comment of the day. Everyone knows this is Jeff's favorite part of the show and he is going to be really upset by the way Jeff also just had a baby. So everyone's going to he's going to be very upset that he missed out on the chair with you. Which is his favorite favorite part of the show. Christian says one day my credit card points will allow me to get this or wait for the $500 chair Chris because I suspect it is coming, I feel it. And Stewart says, wow, that spin. Yeah, I've never, I don't think I've ever just spun all of these chair reviews. The chair launch videos, they always do the 360 spin in the chair, Jimmy. I've never, I don't know if you've ever said that your desk and just 360 for the fun of it, not since I was like 5. And that's as agree with Jimmy designs are important, but is the chair comfortable. How does it innovate sitting in a chair and playing video games?
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"And you know, I was hoping to have stream hatchet on the live stream because I thought this would be right up their alley. By the way, if you guys aren't subscribed to our newsletter, you should. Stream hatch, it's actually a sponsor of our newsletter, and they do all kinds of amazing. They produce all kinds of amazing streaming data. We've included a bunch of their stuff in our newsletters. You really should be getting our newsletter and should go sign up for it. But let's stick with India here because I think there's an interesting another interesting Indian story this week. Ironically, a lot of news coming out of India this week. And this one was fascinating in the context also of our discussion about Twitch. Remember them cutting the split with creators from 70 30 to 50 50. So the headline here is video game live streamers on ruder and loco face steep pay cuts. Now, I was not aware of these platforms to be honest, but the article says the honeymoon period for video game streamers in India may be coming to an end as the platform's loco and ruder, which are basically like the Twitch, I guess, of India, Twitch and mixer of India have steeply cut payments to several creators and have also let go of some of them. So what is happening is some of their payments supposedly were cut by as much as 50 to 60% starting in July. Both are India's leading online game streaming platforms millions of users. They're both flush with funding. And the way these platforms have advertised themselves was as a way for Indian creators to earn millions while pursuing what was supposedly becoming a serious professional choice. So they were giving contracts to creators and the whole bit and paying creators. And now these payments are being cut. Now, in the context of Twitch, this is fascinating. Jimmy, where I'd love to ask you here is, like, do you think they did this purely because of the Twitch move?
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"If you look at what venture money is being invested, definitely on the rise, but in terms of player base, that I don't think so. Matt says, wouldn't that bankrupt Xbox. If every game pass game is played or earn, millions of people will play their favorite game in the hopes of earning money from it. But these are like reverse Ponzi schemes, Matt, so it wouldn't bankrupt Xbox, right? There are people who spend money in the game. And this is what pays out the people who are earning. So it's not like Xbox just writing checks. Antonio says play to earn is not real. Otherwise everyone would just play to earn. I wonder if they use these buzz words to draw in crowds. Antonio, you're right. Well, played earn is a real thing. I don't think it has much shot in its current state of any kind of mainstream success. It is definitely a buzzword though, right? Like someone today used a word with me, which I loved. He's told me he came up to me and says, I'm developing a play for fun game. And I'm like, but you just mean a game, right? We don't need the buzz words. We can come up with all kinds of buzzwords. Bobby says, hey guys, you being Vegas next month for the BOE expo. Yeah, let me speak to that real quick actually, thanks, Bobby. So we will definitely be at the eSports business summit, which I think is what you're referencing there. That's at the MGM Grand on November 1st through third, we're actually proud supporters and partners of that live event. So hope to see anyone there. If you're in Vegas in November, definitely reach out to us. And we'll also be at the eSports summit in Atlanta, November 17th to the 18th right before dream hack on the 19th. So if you're in Atlanta, November 17th for the eSports summit, definitely reach out if you're in Vegas, November, first through third for eSports business summit, definitely reach out for that as well.
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"Horizontal placement there or entry point. It does have a comment that you're in. It's like, how does this fit into game pass, which seems to be their common theme or their common need and everything that they're doing is how do we increase the success of game pass? And I hadn't necessarily thought of game pass when I was looking at this potential investment or this potential investment story here. So when you put it in context of, well, how does this play to earn Indian market investment service game pass, I'm not sure if that's getting more and newer types of games and games that specifically or play to earn games on game pass or adding mobile. That's definitely a tougher question where you're going with it. Let me blow your mind here, Jimmy and this is why people listen to the business of eSports. Because I have a theory, right? And maybe this is the genius of Microsoft. Maybe they're playing real 4D chess here, which is maybe they figured out that to crack the play to earn world if you provide more triple-A experiences and a common platform where, again, like part of the promise of all of these web three games is your items are portable from one game to another, but no games open themselves up to each other. So that's kind of a bust. And you earn tokens, but they're only good for the one game that you play. Maybe with game pass, right? If you web three or 5 game pass, now every game you play in Microsoft's portfolio, you're earning the same token. Now, items really are portable between Diablo and Diablo immortal and I don't know. Call of Duty mobile, right? Like maybe there's this universe that Microsoft sees where by having game pass and all of these all of this IP under one roof that they're better positioned to do play to earn than anyone else. I think if those are the titles that they could bring to the play to earn table, it's game over for anyone that's competing with them. I don't know how you can get better than that. So I'm not sure if that's their strategy because again, this is a new and developing tech. This is a very vocal audience, right? That's so far has had mixed reviews towards all types of all types of web three innovation and then to risk, I think, such major titles on that. Maybe that's the two or three year play. And again, if that works, if the community accepts it, if they can port your digital ownership of whatever good from Call of Duty and take it to fallout 76, you know, maybe I mean, there's definitely something there that's a hard thing to beat because you've said it all the time on and I definitely listen when you're talking about this play to earn companies that haven't made a great game. And so I see a lot of them now pivoting and saying, no, we're going to provide web three and or rather we're going to provide play to earn capabilities on top of great existing games, and we just need to work with the publishers. Now you see Microsoft, I think, with all of their resources, all their games under their belt. If that's something that they can provide and do it in a way that's well received, I think that's a strategy that would be hard for anyone else to beat. Yeah, I don't think Microsoft calls it play to earn or web three or tokens or like I suspect the people who will do this right and I said this today on my panel.
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"And so you see Microsoft making well, like you said, it's definitely a large investment. I don't care if you have 65 billion to invest or a 100 million to invest or 1 million to invest. They're all large sums, right? And I don't think you put out that kind of money in any deal without significant due diligence and discussion. So the size of the deal, I still think is rather large. But to be in India, this emerging mobile gaming market where maybe they're trying to convert those mobile gamers to console on PC gamers or maybe they just want to expand, I think their user base and get more into, I'm not sure how this is going to play out yet. I just know that India is a very interesting region with a ton of gamers, we've talked about it frequently on this show and to see the Microsoft is putting a potentially putting a lot of money there. One, that's really exciting to me. There's only a few other areas, I think, that I would be more excited for. And so, you know, I don't have any concerns or anything negative to say about that. Part two though, I think, and this might be more more of our conversation will lead Paul is play to earn, right? Because this is also a big investment into the web three space into the play to earn space. There's been a lot of pushback on the utility of digital ownership of goods and items. And Microsoft exploring that with a 100 million in a foreign market, I think that maybe more, again, for me, we're more the questions arise. I can't tell if I'm excited to see that Microsoft is taking a stab at that space. I don't think that play to earn is going anywhere. I just don't know how successful it's going to be. And I think that a 100 million for Microsoft to test those waters is, again, it's still a lot of money, but I don't think for them it's a massive investment or a massive risk. Yeah, I mean, Jimmy, this is where I'm a bit confused, right? Microsoft strategy has felt consistent to me so far, right? They buy, they've been buying triple-A publishers of games incredible IP, right? Like you're talking Activision Blizzard. You're talking Bethesda, right? Huge acquisitions with really established great games, great IP, great brands, et cetera, right? And it has felt like the strategy is let's use all of this great IP, all of these great games that people love as a draw to Xbox game pass. They haven't come out and said that, but that's what the strategy is felt like, right? Let's funnel people to Xbox game pass and give great experiences like real triple-A experiences. This just feels out of line with that if we believed that we had sort of nailed the Microsoft gaming strategy, this definitely doesn't seem to fit. Unless you believe that this is a funnel for triple-A games and Xbox game pass also. And maybe Microsoft sees something here where they think all these Indian gamers eventually move up market so called up market away from sort of cheaper experiences, more slot machine kind of gaming to more triple-A kind of immersive experiences.
Techmeme Ride Home
"herman miller" Discussed on Techmeme Ride Home
"Figma CEO Dylan field will stay on in his role as head of figma. Though shareholders don't seem to like this news, Adobe's stock dropped 12% this morning on the news. But come on, this is a smart defensive play on Adobe's part, right? Quoting Bloomberg. The deal announced by Adobe, which is a mix of half cash and half stock confirms an earlier Bloomberg report and would mark the biggest ever takeover of a private software company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Figma, which allows customers to collaborate on software as they build it, saw demand jump during the pandemic while more people worked remotely. The company expanded its customer base in recent years from software designers at big companies like Airbnb, Google, Herman Miller, and Kimberly Clark, to also include individuals building lightweight games, maps and presentations. It is also attracted a loyal student following the combination benefits quote literally anybody who is a knowledge worker said Adobe chief executive officer shantanu naryan in an interview. Adobe, which had been a well street favorite for more than a decade, has been pummeled in the tech downturn, seeing its shares lose more than a third of their value since the start of the year. Investors have become increasingly skeptical about the dominance of Adobe's line of software for design professionals, which makes up about 60% of its revenue. The company has targeted more accessible web based offerings such as Photoshop express to sell its creative software to consumers, small businesses, and social media influencers. The initiative ran into friction from upstarts including figma, light tricks, and canva. San Francisco based figma was cofounded about a decade ago by Dylan field, and Evan Wallace, the startup introduced browser based software design tools that allow software designers to work together in real time bypassing the sometimes clumsy process of saving and sending their work to collaborators using a collection of disparate apps. The company was valued at $10 billion in its last funding round a year ago. Sigma's backers include venture capital firms, kleiner Perkins, index ventures, and greylock partners. Actually, recent history is even more impressive than that. Figma's valuation increased from $2 billion to $10 billion in funding rounds between April of 2020 and May of 2021. Well, they doubled from there to reach today's $2 billion price tag. And pitch book says that the series a round for figma was a $48 million valuation. So nice 413 X return for those funds involved in the a couple of thoughts, though, don't people use figma to avoid using Adobe stuff.
Men In Blazers
"herman miller" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Policygenius doesn't sell your details to third parties, head to policy genius dot com to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save. The do believe anyone listening no matter what their business is, can listen to you talking about collaborations and partnerships and relationships and truly learn about relationship management in their own business or in their own life as Carl Jung once said, the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there's any reaction both a transformed and there's another truth is that no one can succeed in it alone collaboration and partnership is really vital. It's really the secret of my success. I get very inspired by working with other creatives and a lot of it is parking your ego at the door. And really not having an agenda of like, this is what I want to do. It's really immersing yourself into a brand. Making them feel comfortable with you and vice versa. It's getting to sit down, you know, whether it was with L.L.Bean, whether it was with champion and sitting side by side with people that do similar things, but understanding their craft and how they go about the process and how they get inspired. For me, is inspiring. Because I get to see how an artist works. I do a lot of things with chefs in the city. I do one white street down in Tribeca, I do their uniforms and I do francette uniforms. I do have quite a few people's uniforms. I love food, but it's also to understand their craft and how they go about their process, that I get a little bit of an insight to how they do what they do. I find that incredibly interesting. But you also like good people. There's a guest that comes on our show and Steve Kurt. And he always tells me a story which is really stuck with me that towards the end of his career as a player. He's playing for the San Antonio spurs and Greg Popovich kept giving him a new contract in new contract, a new contract. Funny, he's like, pop. I play like two minutes a night, always in garbage time. Why do you even want me here anymore? And probably it's an even blink. He just turned around and he said, life's too short to spend it around assholes and you're a great guy. And there is something in your approach to brands like you do love working with good people. I think I'm gonna have to steal that one. 'cause it is. I mean, that's what it comes down to is I don't want my day to today work to be a slog and having people that I consider friends that I can then have a beer with or I can laugh with. I am fortunate enough that I work in an industry that to be very honest with you, it was shock that I actually get paid. I would have done it for free. It is so much fun. I still feel like I never graduated college. I still feel like I'm in the design room, cutting and pasting and making beautiful things that people like wearing. And I love that. But I also want to surround myself with people that want to be there as well and have fun at what we're doing. What's the secret of being a taste maker then? Because you look at your partnership list, beams, drakes, you kitten, so many of my favorites are in there. What are you looking for? And who are you looking for? One of the biggest things that I always look for as a brand that is original in the space. And it's a big reason why I picked to work with whether it's champion or timex or L.L.Bean, red wing. They pretty much invented their categories. And they're still around. The fact that these companies are all over a century year old. And they're still kicking is impressive in itself. And then on top of it, they're still relevant. They still have an amazing archive. I just want to understand what made them so great. And being able to dig through archives and work with creative people gives me a glimpse into how I could build a brand that could potentially stand the test of time. So one has to be original, but two, and I've always kind of gotten my playbook a little bit from the Japanese. There's this amazing magazine. I wish it was still around. It was called free and easy. And free and easy was this amazing magazine from Japan. That book pretty much had everything you should ever do as a collaboration in America. Really outlined a lot of things that they considered classic, whether it was a champion sweatshirt, a pair of chuck taylors, whether it was para olden shoes. They really created this Bible, if you will, of styles that I kind of used as my playbook was I started doing collaborations. How did you build a relationship that's we are in this together, trust is the key and definitely would use dating. But for me, it's a bit more stocking at first. So I stocked them for about two or three years. I remember when I started working with champion, I just started out on my own. First call when I left was to call champion. I want to do collaboration. I'm Todd Snyder. I did the j.crew liquor store. I really kind of had to chase them. And then after they get to know me and really becomes a trust factor. And champion was the first. And I owe them so much because that really led L.L.Bean to they've been approached a million times by people to do collaborations. And they picked me because they trusted me from that experience I had a champion. Why is the secret to being good at receiving feedback and separating the good that you do listen to from the bad that you just tune out? Once you realize that we're all in this together and you realize not to take things personally and it takes a lot to park your ego and not take it personally, but my trick has always been it's never done until you're done. There's so many steps in the process that there's a lot of different ways to get to the ending. But how do you know when it's done? Like, what is that moment? You keep noodling, you keep fine tuning your key every day, and suddenly it is good. It is done. Or is it never done, then you're pushing stuff out and you're afterwards oh God. I put the pocket there. It really comes down to goosebumps, really. When I get goosebumps, I know we're in a good place. When I was younger, I probably had a little bit slower of a process of putting your pencils down and saying you're done. Whereas today I can move a little quicker. There's a thing about you approach the relationship. I share it in our work or I aspire to share it in our work. I think it's really bloody important for everybody in any kind of relationship. You tell me when we first met, you said, I always even first time trying to set myself up for a long-term relationship. I think it's really critical to let people feel comfortable that you're not just doing this for a one time transaction. From the very beginning, from the very beginning. We come in peace we're moving in. I really mean it when I say it, and I think they appreciate that, that I'm not here just to do a one and done. Especially when you're talking about a hundred year old brand. You need to make sure that you're really honoring that brand and really showing them the respect. Apart from champion, apart from LLB. Do you have a favorite partnership, one that gives you joy, one that gives you the goosebumps just by thinking about it and why? It's like picking your favorite kid. You have over a hundred of them. I mean, one for me that I was really proud of that I did recently and you may or may not have known it. I did a collaboration with FJ Toyota land cruiser. And I did a remake of a 1972 FJ 40. I love working with interiors, so my other big white whale is to work with Herman Miller. And to be able to touch and Eames chair and that would be my dream. Clocks. Wallabies, if you're listening, come collab with roger. But I do think buried in this conversation is really the secret to all relationships told
OC Talk Radio
"herman miller" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"Sweep on the same frame. Yeah and what. I think is really beautiful. Concept what you just described their of your really binding. Something that you're gonna have for a very long time. It's not a consumable it's not like you're buying the cheapest available to throw it away or refrigerator or toaster. There's a there's an element of design and charity in. This means cherishing this. That i can. I compare what you create more to a piece of fine furniture. Like something charles. And ray eames would have made. Then what's currently happening. In sort of disposable economy built lessons. I you know it's funny because i i have a desk my desk that i work on his herman miller dust. And this year. After a decade at started delaminating. And i wrote a letter to herman miller and i just said you know look i love this dessus laminated. Is there. anything i can do about it. Would you believe they wrote back. And said we're gonna send you a brand new desks. And i feel that sort of light commitment to creating something that you're going to be proud of to own the rest of your life or give your kids or use and use multiple and change. I feel like that's where this product is living more than like something you throw out Would you agree. Yes definitely you know that. People like scott like scott like when you have your first scout you can sell it so i still only i count. I will only forever because when when you spend time with humans also with things that you feel well with it. You don't want to miss them. So i love. I design that you can have a long relationship with your vaco. The media our yeah. You're you're talking to a guy that still has the car that my parents bought in nineteen ninety-three i restored it and it's the car i own car. I grew up in the actual car. So i get that that there are these special things in our life that speak to the soul and become something very on more than just topic is something that you use but you give down generation after generation. So listen. I love the concept. I really heard people to check out. Burger dot com link up here. And i just want to thank you for coming on the show card. It's it's a really cool. Object of really cool purposeful piece of art is what i would call it and we're definitely going to do a check in with you in the future to see where it's going But i'm really thank you for taking the time and i. I wish you all the best of this. Because i right now. I want so much the fresh to from you soon. That's our motto here driven by design. We're never far away. We're always driving something new way right here in the only show that shows you. The future design our conversation at a time right here. In orange county's only unique online radio station talkradio dot net streaming live from the university of california. Irvine's feel applied innovation..
KLIF 570 AM
"herman miller" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Near the end of the Trump presidency, Herman Miller had two conversations with his Chinese counterpart. Problems in the countries would not go to war and that he would give him early warning that something would have happened this statement just minutes ago, Chairman Billy did not execute this account. On this. Does the president feel these calls were appropriate? Does he have confidence in the tournament, and some Republican senators have called for German defeat? Dismissed? Is he going to keep his job? Well, I saw the statement, of course, that the Department of Defense or I should say the Joint Chiefs spokesperson just released and released minutes ago. I'm not going to add more speak to anonymous unconfirmed reports about conversations with limited context from here. But what I can assure you all of is that the president knows General Milley. He has been chairman of the Joint Chiefs for almost eight months of his presidency. They've worked side by side. There are a range of international events and the president has complete confidence in his leadership, his patriotism and his fidelity to our Constitution Since you gave me the opportunity, I just wanted to add I think it's important to consider some of the context. Context of this period in time of time in history that we're discussing and is outlined are covered in portions of this book, the outgoing president of the United States. During this period of time, fermented unrest leading to an insurrection and an attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, which we've all you all have covered extensively, of course, one of the darkest days in our nation's history beyond reports in this book, there's been widespread reporting and commentary from members of his own Cabinet, the former president's Cabinet. I should say. Including high ranking national security officials, questioning the former president stability, his behavior and his suitability to oversee the national security of the United States. So those are important questions that need to be discussed as well. Want.
The Erick Erickson Show
"herman miller" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"President biden deciding that he's going to mandate and i've gotta tell you i i find it deeply divisive. I think the president should have taken a different approach. Because i think the approach he took is one. That's gonna hardened positions and make it harder for people to want to get vaccinated. I am pro vaccine. I'm anti mandate. I think the vaccines work. I'm proof the vaccines work My wife is as well There are breakthrough cases but again. This is part of the problem. It now turns out. The media has overstated breakthrough cases. It turns they were talking to like almost anyone could get a mild case of the delta various their vaccinate turns out. It's one in five thousand one in five thousand. You have greater risks from birth control medicine than you do from a vaccine and yet We're not worried about birth control medicine. If people are freaked out about the vaccine it works. The problem though is that the president was deeply divisive in how he approached it. Here's the start of his speech even as the delta very nineteen has kobe nineteen has been hitting this country hard. We have the tools to combat the virus if we can come together the country and use those tools. If we raise our vaccination rate protect ourselves and others with masking expanded testing and identify people who are infected we can and we will turn the tide cove nineteen will take a lot of hard work is gonna take some time. Many of us are frustrated with the nearly eighty million americans of course still not vaccinated even though the vaccine is safe effective and free.
The Erick Erickson Show
"herman miller" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Who are running against critical theory. You see actually no. It's not there actually democratic candidates who are running against critical theory in nonpartisan races. Well-known democrats are mad about it as well now one more paragraph here even though most arizona school board races are not for at least a year pep. Pm kirby who runs school board boot camps for the gop has already started offering a new round of her classes because of demand more than two hundred people have completed the program and eighty more on the weightless conservatives from oregon texas new york indiana and other states have asked her to run similar programs for them about twenty five percent of the people from the classes. Actually gonna to run while others will instead join their local. Gop operations office precede committee members. Kirby estimates more than fifteen hundred committee members have been appointed a miracle county since february. It's unheard of. Kirby says it's off the charts. Why is it a bad thing. That parents are inspired to get involved. Why is it a bad thing. That parents may be galvanized. He gets critical theory. The media treats it as some sinister conservative plot. Would actually what it is is a left wing ideology that is being used to get into schools to a doctorate have played the audio of the various woke. Teachers who talk about education really is political. Education really is about indoctrinating to people and they embrace people like robert de ngelo in her anti whiteness campaign where she says nonsense like this when people are invested in the racist status quo for for lots of reasons And i think it's unfortunate. But i do think we have to see it as in our own best interests so a couple of things happened there. One is a little more abstract. But it's like you almost have to unwrap Dismantle you're very identity to the core and rebuild it because even before i took my first breath as my mother carried me in cregg nece- the forces of race were operating on on us. The forces of race were operating on us. She was a racist in the womb. And that's what they're teaching in schools and parents across the board even parents who are not republicans have had enough of this and the media spin on his watch just the republicans and now they're going to run candidates office. You should be concerned about this. Many people fired up. But you're kind of ignoring the big nugget here. It's not just republicans in it's not just conservatives it's democratic parents to and that tells you everything about how critical theory is hurting the progressive movement. We should be thankful parents are standing up. And being more involved with their kids education than ever before it's one of the upsides of having gone through lockdowns and nonsense with covert parents actually got to see up close and personal via zoom. the nonsense. Their kids were being taught. And they're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. I wouldn't say. I'm a cheer. Stop but i kinda amateur snob. Y'all a i sit for three hours for radio. And then all the writing and stuff i do. I'm in my chair in my office. A lot and i bought one of those super expensive. Herman miller chairs. And i've traded in for my x. Chair the moment. I set down and it began to massage my back. I thought this is the year for me. Yes might share..
The Erick Erickson Show
"herman miller" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"George soros a man who has advocated. This country for woke kness who has funded prosecutors would let people out of jail. George soros recognizes the problem with china. George soros is upbringing and background. Make hymns deeply deeply worried about and hesitant to embrace autocratic regimes. He has viewed his dabbling. In american politics as liberalism and progressivism. And that being good i think at some point george soros who's going to open up his is it realize. Oh my gosh. I've just fostered a authoritarian regime. I thought that the the social liberal constructs of the united states i was fostering are people who would actually embrace a social liberal world order. In fact it's the social liberals who embrace autocracy it's the social liberals who embraced communism soros is is the scales are probably gonna fall off. His is one day and realized he built that. But i think we should probably pay attention to george soros. Would he realizes. American companies going into china propping up the chinese regime or bad and i think we probably should embrace his idea legislation power. The sec to limit the flow of funds to china. I think we need to do that. I think we need to encourage american companies to get china. We need to encourage apple to move to brazil. Moved india fully to taiwan moved to south korea. Get out of china. It is not good that american companies american entertainment venues the like or striking alliances with a communist regime that wants to be global superpower against the united states that what's dr love in his ruthless and once in actually does operate concentration camps and persecute christians and muslims and jews. But the almighty dollar is alluring to these capitalist enterprises and lenin and stalin and mao zedong analogies ping have all said the capitalist would sabotage themselves and it appears to be working with george soros in the wall street journal editorial page the most conservative editorial page of the country stands up and says hey. We need to stop people from sending money to china. We probably need to listen to him and see if we can find some ground with him against china because china wants to destroy us all. I wouldn't say i'm my share. Stop but i kind of amateur snob. Y'all i sit for three hours for radio. And then all the writing and stuff i do. I'm in my chair in my office. A lot and i bought one of those super expensive. Herman miller chairs and traded it in for my x. Chair the moment. I sat down and it began to.
The Pulse
Why Offices Have Cubicles
"A couple of years ago. I got really interested in cubicles. Probably because i was spending way too much time in mind and those beige fabric covered walls. Were really getting to me. Giving me existential. Angst you know like in the movie office space. We don't have a lot of time on this earth we weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit and little cubicle staring at computer screens all day filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements. I wanted to find out how these little boxes got so popular. How did they take over office. Buildings around the world. And i found this amazing infomerrcial from the nineteen sixties. That touted the benefits of a whole new way to build workspaces. You and i are today. Living and industry's finest hour. An age of hurry. An era of efficiency period of productivity the likes of which the world has never seen and super fast smart effective age era. Millions of people who still working old offices and haven't stopped a realized they still work in old fashioned offices enter action office. The original lofty vision later became the pubic. It was designed by the herman miller company exactly is action often. I'm walking through it right now. It's a far better environment. Today's changing functions an instant flexible office facility the comparative in parallel the surging turbulent business life. It serves your business changing constantly. Your office should change with it. So the cubicle was born as a sleek looking shape shifting office space with hinged walls designed to create either small spaces or to open up wide for group meetings. The new buzz phrase back then was knowledge. Work and cubicles were supposed to facilitate this free flow of ideas and
The Business of Esports
"herman miller" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"Experience like your chair is so important to how you play to how long you can play like just to be clear. I think this is cheap. Like the d-box add on which is only three hundred dollars here like it's twenty three hundred a d box platform. If you're doing like a simmering like you're really into sim racing you're doing similar with d-box de boxes like the high end of like the i would what i would call the mainstream simmering segment. It's like the top of the top and that mainstream just the motion platform can be like two thousand dollars so like this to me is an impressive price. Point to have hit. Yeah i think we're gonna see more much more expensive chairs especially like this is cooler master and d-box right like gula masters a great company that make roddick's i think there are other also great companies that will make better bronx probably more expensive I think there's waiting for their opening. Like there is gonna come in with five thousand dollar. I feel like corsair like audi your something like who knows They've already shown inch like you know so. Many motive brands have already shown interest in the space. Investing eastwards in so many things. Like it's only a matter. Pretend we are. We going to see like a What do you call it like where you have this. War of one upsmanship on gaming chairs. Because it's going to be this. I think your morgan find the market will race up until you find. There will be a peak price point. My guess is it's probably going to be around ten thousand dollars. Ultra luxury like. That's typically price point you see in other adoption markets right starting out there and at that point there will be a couple very high profile providers with ten thousand dollar offerings that are trying to distinguish themselves by features that are mainly distinguishing themselves by marketing. Because at that stage all the meaningful features are built in so it's it's effectively. Luxury item. Jimmy i want that gucci collab- on my bmw chair. And that's about. I'll give you the ten k. I was gonna say. I thought you were going to say where we have to reach out to cooler master because we need to make these chairs the official chair or something of the you know the livestream or something like that. You should get each of us. One of these chairs we talk rumbles chairs. Control the motion of where he can like concerns. I oscar launches. Paul has already preordered for sure. I already emailed cooler. Master trend says the tsm x. logitech x. Herman miller cash grab. I mean trent. These are good chairs though. Her millers are are worth every penny literally worth every penny they could double the price. And i still think they'd be worth every penny You know if you sit in one for a long period of time. It really really makes a difference..
Accidental Tech Podcast
"herman miller" Discussed on Accidental Tech Podcast
"Think i i mean it seems like it's not a seems like this is your job is photos over there and you want them on your computer and this is a swiss army knife to do that right. And it's a fast one as fast preview or like. It's it's sort of high-performance workflow oriented professional photographers probably overkill for the average person but because we recommend it so much i think it's worth at least checking out. Maybe they have a demo or something. This would be good for your old workflow. Casey but remember you're gonna switch over to i photo library. You won't need anymore. Am i though Anyway photo mechanic six hundred forty dollars. Us and then. There's a photo mechanic. Plus that includes things. I don't think any of us are interested in but that's two hundred and thirty dollars so a hundred and forty four. What i think would be sufficient for me Chris handcock rights with regard to an apple manufactured apple branded camera extent on camera tristan cock rights instead of a whole camera could apple make a quote made for apple photos quote certification for other cameras to plug into upside for them. Is the services revenue from driving. More icloud storage plus. I'm sure they charge the camera manufacturers to. I don't see this happening. But i liked the principle of it. I mean sounds like a cool like happy medium. Don't think it really solves all the problems. We were lamenting. But it's certainly interesting and it would solve a lot of problems in that apple would force these camera companies to have some kind of reasonable like fast apple native supporting important mechanism. Maybe even wireless instead of the just universally tara. Blessed margaret said that are made by the camera companies themselves. Who have no idea how to make offer. And they just they. Don't look that native for any platform. Mac program to a native windows program. It doesn't work the u. Is inscrutable even like the the. Ui text is not localized. Well like just you can't even read it and understand what they're trying to say. That would be a good upgrade. But i feel like every camera company either is so far outside the realm where they care about consumer electronics or is like a mortal enemy of apple and vice versa. So why would why would they even talk to each other about this. Because you know as the as apple stated apple sometimes things of elvis being Having the one of the best cameras in the world right are being the best camera company in the world. Why would they help out another camera company. I know they don't it doesn't seem like there's any overlap between them but it's like apple juice off doing its own thing you know. They'll they'll support. Importing from plug in your sony camera to your mac and launch apple photos. The apple photos program. It will import into it but trying to make that relationship. Tighter just doesn't seem like a thing that apple or the conver- countries anderson at this point. I want some feedback from alexander who writes. The iran chair was updated in two thousand seventeen and one major change that the foam bars removed from the front. The dot com bubble era or era arun classic chair which is still sold used or even new are different from what's currently manufactured and sold by herman miller aron and one of you guys found a link that we will put in the show notes to discuss the differences. Yeah i had no idea. When when john was london was lamenting the the bar. That goes across your leg on an aron chair. And i was saying it doesn't bother me at all. Turns out like mine that i bought a few years. Ago is the new version and it doesn't have one of those bars anymore like it still has the rim at the very bottom where the fabric is where the mesh fabric goes into. That is the frame of the chair but apparently the the previous version of the are on had the kind of an extra bar that went across kind of behind your knees. They're like almost right before the edge of the chair and the new one does not have that bar so it turns out that if you like john have had that barred digging into your legs The new ones might not do that for you because they are actually different sitting at to find out. Because that the thing that you're describing the old one has a pad their because they apparently discovered and knew that these stupid bar was gonna put a pad their to dry helping. It didn't help because like in the end. The bar is still there. And there's the pattern has also where the mesh goes into the pad or whatever. The new on the way the new in solve the problem is it doesn't need the pad because the chairs tilt down more on the transition from the mesh to the bar is smoother and so both of those things and i it looks like the actual rims low skinnier or too so both of those things combined to make the bar less prominent said the the bar that was being intimate still exists. It wasn't it wasn't a pad that was digging in it was the actual metal frame of the chair. So always sit down and try it out but it seems like like it seems like even in the first version they recognize this design problem and tried to mitigate it with the pad and it didn't work out on the second version. They said if we just sort of been the lip of the chair down more. It'll be less gigi. I've never sat martin new one. Maybe it would solve maybe would solve the problem completely for me but it is good that they have revised this and yet. There's a good youtube video if you wanna see more more than you've ever wanted to know about the minute differences between the old and the new chair. The new one is not all pluses..
MarketFoolery
"herman miller" Discussed on MarketFoolery
"Drop that we're seeing in the stock seems reasonable to me because this stock is still up seventy percent over the past twelve months. It's basically where it was in january of two thousand twenty and it seems like the market is saying what often says which is well. That's nice but what are you going to do in the next six to twelve months. Yes and herman miller's problem is that it is still centered very much in the project business. And what i mean by that. Is this company which is known for the iconic. Herman miller chair and high end furniture still makes the majority of its profits from office renovations and office furniture. It depends on bigger companies undertaking projects for new office space to grab the bulk of its orders. It's ford orders which is something that investors look very closely at in this industry. Orders actually look great in the quarter just ended. They were up about twenty nine percent but the backlog is down about five percent. The thing that herman miller is going to convince investors over the longer haul is that they're able to carry their fashion fort cents and their sense in office furniture into these new avenues that they were investing in before the pandemic so a greater emphasis on retail which ceo andy own has done a spectacular job of increased the retail footprint of herman miller the acquisitions from upscale brands like hey designs to this upcoming merger with another big name in the office furniture world which is no k n o l l These are things that i think. Herman miller will be able to capitalize on in the future. Just now investors. Absolutely chris are saying okay. We we take a break for a while and see how the maybe the next quarter pans out with. This order flow. I should say to shouldn't leave out of this discussion. How well the company is doing in. Its e commerce. Those investments happen before cove as well. Andy cohen one of the first things that she did when she came in is to make sure that the e commerce strategy would be robust. So we're seeing really great results out of that. So i think when you take this whole picture together you've got a company which will look fairly different a year from today after the merger with noel and the time that it will take for them to realize further results from investments made pre covid. But this morning. Investors are looking at the uncertainty of the company's outlook which was actually. I would say. Pretty middling chris Just looking at the numbers sales are expected to be between six hundred forty million and six hundred seventy million in this next quarter growth of less than five percent which is a little less than investors are looking for facts that research systems following a bit today..
The Business of Esports
Herman Miller Director of Gaming on Company's Dominance
Esports Minute
U.S. State Department announces new video game diplomacy program
"Nationwide news as the US state department announced a new video game diplomacy program in conjunction with the nonprofit games for change the program seeks to engage over twenty seven hundred students in the US Israel United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in a virtual student Exchange program that will Center on the development and creation of socially impactful video games. The program's official name is The Game Exchange in its initial round will feature under-represented and under-served students from schools in New York City Atlanta and Detroit students will be taught aspects of video game development code in competition and the social impact of video games. The US state department has runs similar projects in years past involving music art stem acting film and radio as part of their diplomacy policies Susanna Pollock president of the program says that game design is a US export weather is US expertise to bring to other parts of birth. While bridging cultural gaps and sharing that expertise
Esportz Network Podcast
Breaking the Esports Audio Sponsorship Mold w/ 100 Thieves VP of Esports and JBL's Global Director of Marketing Comms
"While the podcast. So we're going to be breaking down this deal for both perspectives. It see how the cookie crumbles really what it comes down to how these deals habit. You see all the headlights you see the products being worn by the players Orga dive into really the steps that lead up to the creation of a brand deal like this one. So starting out from the early stages which side reach out I was JBL. Making the step over to one hundred thieves or one hundred thieves reaching out to jbl. Do you guys remember? I'm pretty sure we were the ones that initiated the contact. Through an agency that we're working with at the time to help us to grab craft our approach to to exports into gaming in general. So I i. think we were the first ones to to to. To Extend the hand. Absolutely, Jacob, do you remember when those conversations started and the energy was like a as you reached out? This is a space that's really filled with a lot of partners jbl. Here's a legacy audio brad reaching out to you remember what those early conversations through like. Yeah. A excitement is always Key in figuring out these partnerships and really looking at all brandon and who reposition ourselves with. We need partnerships that we that we truly get behind an ice either about So with JBL obviously premium quality products something we feel like we represented in displays of east bolts. So while I, can't remember the. The. Stop Time. All who initiates I remember you know sort of the. The sense of feeling in the room once we came over the initial hurdle of introductions and you know that was one of excitement. Absolutely. I can only imagine the seems like a trend that's happened this year of these really log running brands enter eastward seeing that with Herman. Miller. For example, in the complexity partnership, you've got a brand that well out dates video games, much less e sports getting into the space promising. Hey, we've got this great product that's been used by all these other industries, and now we want to be involved in East Sports Michael From your perspective. Why was J B L A natural fit for East? Sports. So I I think to to answer that it was. We were looking at this more as a great fit for gaming and where we think gaming is is going in the future if you take a look at how the graphics within the game have evolved over the last fifteen or twenty years like. It has grown in leaps and bounds, and so the realism that's now. Prevalent in President Gains. Really helps to create the super immersive experience for Gamers and we felt like sound was a piece that was that was lagging in that equation. And so our whole idea was we want the gamers actually be able to hear the game in the same way that they see it. and. When we identified that as a need in space, that's when we knew it was time for us to actually enter. We didn't want to be just another brand that said, hey, gaming. It looks cool. Let's do that. We wanted to make sure that we're actually bringing something new table and and actually you know solving a need that we thought consumers gaming space might have. And that was really the whole impetus for US designed to get into gaming. Absolutely in every game knows how important audio is you mentioned how graphics approving well, sow does it prove it as well especially in the battle royale? Sowed is so important you've three hundred, sixty degree view. There's always people either above below at identified where they are and reacting to it is becoming an increasingly important part of being successful in eastport. Jacob you of a background is professional player. Could you talk about how audio matters especially at the highest levels of water video game? Yeah. Absolutely like you mentioned the. But I think The. The shooter Genre in general audio is one of the most primary importance of of of performance ride. So when we first started this conversation, it aligned sort of when we. Just picked up our counter strike team as well. both counterstrike fortnight now valor and call of duty call everything right sound. So very pivotal to to play performance. So as one of the the first conversations that I remember having was making sure that whoever we partnered with on the audio category, it would be a product that we were excited to use them that all of our. Players get behind and use on a daily basis because of how how big of an importance it has on the products on performance site So it was very reassuring. I remember Maddie from from team coming into the conversation saying listen it's got it's going to be jpl I'm really excited about this what are your concerns here because mostly on the performance side without teams and so Speaking on behalf of all of our players and going into the competitions it's important that we have You know state of the OPS. Hardware. When when we playing whether that's mountain. audio. Absolutely, you're only as good as your equipment. Well, that's a lie could be better than your equipment plenty of types, but at the highest level, those little those little differences really make a big deal. Michael
The Esports Minute
Herman Miller's New Chair Comes Along with New Esports Partners
"Leagues. Cherbourg were building top line chairs for. Before eastwards ever existed. Herman Miller made an eastwards entry a few months back by partnering with complexity, an industry dominated by racing style bucket seats branded for Gamers Herman. Miller's eastwards entry really shook things up this week. They added to new sports organizations in announced a product in partnership with Logitech the product is called the embody gaming chair for the low low price of fifteen hundred dollars. One of these chairs can be yours as well. It certainly not cheap and was mean to bid on twitter when announced, but for sports organizations they're flocking to this new chair edition. Complexity will tsm in the San Francisco shocked back by energy, chose the new embody gaming chair as their official choice, according to their release from Tsm players had actually working with Herman Miller for two years well before the company, it publicly moved into sports to design the perfect chair for gamers compared to gaming chairs Herman Miller over few important options. Mini gaming chairs do not. Most. Importantly is adaptability racing style. Bucket seats are just not ideal for a lot of gamers and being able to Morphou Chair to fit. Your body is more important than any particular feature of the chair itself for longtime gaming chair brands like secret laboratory x Racer. They have to be sweating a bit with the embody gaming chair. They aren't really not much dangerous. Fifteen hundred dollars is more than almost any gamer will be willing to spend on a chair, but as Herman Miller grabs eastwards, organizations works to create other products with less upfront cost. Gaming chairs finally have some major competition. It's about time.