Minecraft’s future is augmented reality

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/podcast-assets.wired.co.uk/wireduk418-170519.mp3?_=1
Coming up today: Minecraft goes AR, WhatsApp gets hacked and could taking tiny amounts of LSD boost your brain?

Join the WIRED Book Club – we’re reading Lost in a Good Game, by Pete Etchells

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-book-club-lost-in-a-good-game

Stories we talked about this week:

Inside Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s huge augmented reality gamble
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/minecraft-earth-app-beta

A serious hack hit WhatsApp. You should update your app right now
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whats-app-hacked

Inside the first placebo-controlled studies testing if microdosing LSD actually works
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microdosing-lsd-psilocybin-placebo-trials

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Show produced and edited by Matt Burgess

Brian Satis

Brian is WhatPod's Technology Editor. San Jose resident and veteran of the first Silicon Valley tech boom, Brian is founder of Duotone Game Studio and a contributing writer for Synthetic Dimensions, Podzone and Tech News Monthly.Got a podcast to suggest ? Contact Brian (brian.satis@whatpod.com.au)