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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual reality started for me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in sort of an unusual place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the 1970s,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got into the field very young,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was 7-years-old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the tool that I used \Nto access virtual reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an Evel Knievel stunt cycle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a commercial for \Nthat particular item:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Commercial: "What a jump!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evel's riding the amazing stunt cycle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That jiro-power sends him \Nover 100 feet at top speed."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this was my joy back then.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I rode this motorcycle everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was there with Evel Knievel:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted the rocket,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never got the rocket.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only got the motorcycle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt so connected to this world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to be storyteller\Nwhen I grew up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to be stuntman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was there, Evel Knievel was my friend,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had so much empathy for him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, it didn't work out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to art school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started making music videos.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of the early\Nmusic videos that I made:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music: "Before the day you die,\Nyou gon' touch the sky."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: You may notice \Nsome slight similarities here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got that rocket.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now I'm a filmmaker,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beginning of a filmmaker,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started using the tools that are\Navailable to me as a filmmaker
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell the most compelling stories\Nthat I can to an audience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And film is this incredible medium\Nthat allows us to feel empathy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people that are very different than us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and worlds completely foreign \Nfrom our own.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, Evel Knievel didn't feel\Nthe same empathy for us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we felt for him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he sued us for this video
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shortly thereafter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the upside,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the man that I worshiped as a child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the man that I wanted \Nto become as an adult,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was finally able to get his autograph.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about film now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film, it's an incredible medium,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but essentially,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the same now as then.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a group of rectangles that are\Nplayed in a sequence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've done incredible things\Nwith those rectangles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I started thinking about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there a way that I can use modern\Nand developing technologies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell stories in different ways
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell different kinds of stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that maybe I couldn't tell using\Nthe traditional tools of filmmaking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've been using for 100 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I started experiementing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I was trying to do was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build the ultimate empathy machine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's one of the early experiments:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Promo: "This is a Chrome Experiment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arcade Fire: 'The Wilderness Downtown.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: So this was called\N"The Wilderness Downtown",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a collaboration with Arcade Fire
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put in the address where you\Ngrew up at the beginning of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a website,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and out of it starts growing these\Nlittle boxes with different browser windows.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see this teenager \Nrunning down the street,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see Google Streetview\Nand Google Maps imagery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you realize that the street\Nhe's running down is yours.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he stops in front of a house,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's in front of your house.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was great, and I saw people \Nhaving an even deeper emotional reaction
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the things that I \Nhad made in rectangles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm essentially taking a piece\Nof your history
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting it inside the framing\Nof the story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I started thinking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, well that's a part of you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I put all of you inside\Nof the frame?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to do that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started making art installations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one called \N"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to show you the third panel:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now I've got you inside of the frame,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw people having even more\Nvisceral emotional reactions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this work than the previous one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I started thinking about frames,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what do they represent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a frame is just a window.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, all the media that we watch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- television, cinema --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're these windows into \Nthese other worlds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, "Well, great. I got \Nyou in a frame.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't want you in the frame,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want you in a window,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you through the window,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world, inhabiting the world."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that leads me back to virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Talking about virtual reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like dancing about architecture."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is actually someone dancing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about architecture in virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's difficult to explain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is difficult to explain?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's because it's a very \Nexperiential medium.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel your way inside of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a machine, but inside of it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it feels like real-life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it feels like truth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel present in the world\Nthat you're inside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you feel present with the people\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're inside of it with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I'm going to show you a demo\Nof virtual reality film:\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a full-screeen version of\Nall the information
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we capture when we shoot\Nvirtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're shooting in every direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a camera system that we built
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has 3D cameras that look\Nat every direction
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and binaural microphones\Nthat face in very direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take this and we build, basically,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I'm going to show you\Nis not a view into the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's basically the whole world\Nstretched into a rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this film is called "Clouds over Sidra."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was made in conjunction with \Nour virtual reality company
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called VRSE,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a co-collaborator named Gabo Arora.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to a Syrian refugee camp\Nin Jordan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shot the story of a 12-year-old girl\Nnamed Sidra.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And her and her family fled Syria\Nthrough the desert into Jordan
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's been living in this\Ncamp for the last year and a half.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Video: "My name is Sidra,\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am 12-years-old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am in the fifth grade.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am from Syria in the Daraa province\Nin (?).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have lived here in the Zaatari camp\Nin Jordan
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last year and a half.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a big family:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three brothers, one is a baby.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cries a lot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked my father if \NI cried when I was a baby,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says I did not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I was a stronger baby\Nthan my brother."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: So, when you're inside\Nof the headset,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not seeing it like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're looking around through this world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice you see a full\N360 degrees in all directions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you're sitting there\Nin her room, watching her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not watching it through\Na television screen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not watching it through a window,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're sitting there with her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look down,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're sitting on the same ground\Nthat she's sitting on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel her humanity in a deeper way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You empathize with her in a deeper way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that we can change minds\Nwith this machine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've already started to try \Nto change a few.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we took this film to the\NWorld Economic Forum
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Davos in January.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we showed it to a group of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose decisions affect the lives\Nof millions of people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are people who might\Nnot otherwise be sitting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a tent in a refugee camp in Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in January, one afternoon\Nin Switzerland,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they suddenly all found themselves there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were affected by it.