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Vergecast 224: Google event, Oculus event, and Playstation VR

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This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, Dan, and Dieter cover two big events and announcements from the past few days. As you may have read on the site, Google announced a plethora of hardware devices on Tuesday. Then yesterday, Oculus announced a few new features for their VR platform.

Will Nilay buy a Pixel on the show?

Listen and find out.

01:42 – Google event, new products, and new competition

38:16 – Oculus event and VR

49:08 – Paul’s weekly segment “Having a Coke With You”

51:14 – Lightning round

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