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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.35,0:00:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual reality started for me\Nin sort of an unusual place.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.98,0:00:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the 1970s.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.17,0:00:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got into the field very young:\NI was seven years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.38,0:00:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the tool that I used \Nto access virtual reality
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.24,0:00:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.81,0:00:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a commercial for \Nthat particular item:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.20,0:00:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Voice-over: What a jump!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.78,0:00:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evel's riding the amazing stunt cycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.77,0:00:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That gyro-power sends him \Nover 100 feet at top speed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.54,0:00:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: So this was my joy back then.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.63,0:00:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I rode this motorcycle everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.59,0:00:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was there with Evel Knievel; we \Njumped the Snake River Canyon together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.85,0:00:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted the rocket.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.22,0:00:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never got the rocket,\NI only got the motorcycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.63,0:00:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt so connected to this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.20,0:00:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to be a storyteller \Nwhen I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.44,0:00:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was there. Evel Knievel was my friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.64,0:00:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had so much empathy for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.75,0:01:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it didn't work out. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.36,0:01:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to art school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.38,0:01:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started making music videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.79,0:01:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one of the early\Nmusic videos that I made:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.87,0:01:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music: "Touch the Sky" by Kanye West)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.76,0:01:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CM: You may notice \Nsome slight similarities here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.03,0:01:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.82,0:01:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got that rocket.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.46,0:01:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.10,0:01:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now I'm a filmmaker,\Nor, the beginning of a filmmaker,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.51,0:01:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started using the tools that are\Navailable to me as a filmmaker
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.24,0:01:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to tell the most compelling stories\Nthat I can to an audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.83,0:01:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And film is this incredible medium\Nthat allows us to feel empathy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.98,0:01:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people that are very different than us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.01,0:01:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and worlds completely \Nforeign from our own.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.84,0:01:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.67,0:01:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evel Knievel did not feel the same \Nempathy for us that we felt for him,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.53,0:01:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he sued us for this video --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.33,0:01:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.06,0:01:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shortly thereafter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.11,0:02:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the upside, the man \Nthat I worshipped as a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.95,0:02:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the man that I wanted \Nto become as an adult,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.07,0:02:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was finally able to get his autograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.56,0:02:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.83,0:02:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about film now.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.85,0:02:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film, it's an incredible medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.74,0:02:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but essentially, it's the same\Nnow as it was then.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.06,0:02:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a group of rectangles that are\Nplayed in a sequence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.53,0:02:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've done incredible things\Nwith those rectangles.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.36,0:02:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I started thinking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.25,0:02:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there a way that I can use modern\Nand developing technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.62,0:02:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell stories in different ways
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.74,0:02:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell different kinds of stories
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.48,0:02:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that maybe I couldn't tell using\Nthe traditional tools of filmmaking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.79,0:02:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've been using for 100 years?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.96,0:02:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started experimenting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.78,0:03:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I was trying to do was\Nto build the ultimate empathy machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.05,0:03:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's one of the early experiments:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.59,0:03:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.41,0:03:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is called\N"The Wilderness Downtown."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.66,0:03:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a collaboration with Arcade Fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.71,0:03:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It asked you to put in the address\Nwhere you grew up at the beginning of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.36,0:03:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a website.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.36,0:03:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And out of it starts growing these little\Nboxes with different browser windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.28,0:03:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see this teenager \Nrunning down a street,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.66,0:03:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see Google Street View\Nand Google Maps imagery
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.42,0:03:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you realize the street\Nhe's running down is yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.94,0:03:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he stops in front of a house,\Nhe stops in front of your house.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.74,0:03:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was great, and I saw people \Nhaving an even deeper emotional reaction
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.42,0:03:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this than the things that \NI had made in rectangles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.63,0:03:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm essentially taking \Na piece of your history
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.56,0:03:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting it inside \Nthe framing of the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.98,0:03:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I started thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.58,0:03:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,okay, well that's a part of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.43,0:03:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but how do I put all of you\Ninside of the frame?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.73,0:04:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to do that, I started\Nmaking art installations.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.83,0:04:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is one called \N"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.37,0:04:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a triptych. I'm going to show\Nyou the third panel.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.39,0:04:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.26,0:04:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now I've got you inside of the frame,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.85,0:04:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw people having even more\Nvisceral emotional reactions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.40,0:04:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this work than the previous one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.08,0:04:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I started thinking about frames,\Nand what do they represent?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.23,0:04:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a frame is just a window.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.49,0:04:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, all the media that we watch --\Ntelevision, cinema --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.57,0:04:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're these windows into \Nthese other worlds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.82,0:04:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, well, great. \NI got you in a frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.51,0:04:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't want you in the frame,\NI don't want you in the window,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.63,0:05:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you through the window,\NI want you on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.52,0:05:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world, inhabiting the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.22,0:05:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that leads me back to virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.12,0:05:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.63,0:05:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.93,0:05:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about virtual reality\Nis like dancing about architecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.42,0:05:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is actually someone dancing\Nabout architecture in virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.34,0:05:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.82,0:05:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's difficult to explain.\NWhy is it difficult to explain?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.08,0:05:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's difficult because it's a very \Nexperiential medium.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.78,0:05:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel your way inside of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.70,0:05:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a machine, but inside of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.50,0:05:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it feels like real life,\Nit feels like truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.94,0:05:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel present in the world\Nthat you're inside
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.47,0:05:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you feel present with the people\Nthat you're inside of it with.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.69,0:05:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I'm going to show you a demo\Nof a virtual reality film:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.78,0:05:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a full-screeen version of\Nall the information
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.01,0:05:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we capture when\Nwe shoot virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.21,0:05:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're shooting in every direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.03,0:06:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a camera system that we built
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.21,0:06:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has 3D cameras that look\Nin every direction
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.24,0:06:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and binaural microphones\Nthat face in very direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.99,0:06:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take this and we build, basically,\Na sphere of a world that you inhabit.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.33,0:06:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I'm going to show you\Nis not a view into the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.74,0:06:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's basically the whole world\Nstretched into a rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.11,0:06:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this film is called \N"Clouds Over Sidra,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.50,0:06:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was made in conjunction with \Nour virtual reality company called VRSE
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.99,0:06:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.76,0:06:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a co-collaborator named Gabo Arora.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.79,0:06:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to a Syrian refugee camp\Nin Jordan in December
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.62,0:06:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shot the story of a 12-year-old\Ngirl there named Sidra.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.98,0:06:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she and her family fled Syria\Nthrough the desert into Jordan
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.47,0:06:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's been living in this\Ncamp for the last year and a half.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.21,0:06:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Sidra: My name is Sidra,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.72,0:06:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am 12-years-old.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.62,0:06:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am in the fifth grade.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.42,0:06:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am from Syria in the Daraa province\Nin (?).
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.60,0:07:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have lived here in the Zaatari camp\Nin Jordan for the last year and a half.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.92,0:07:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a big family:\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.93,0:07:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three brothers, one is a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.70,0:07:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cries a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.14,0:07:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked my father if I cried when \NI was a baby and he says I did not.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.20,0:07:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I was a stronger baby\Nthan my brother."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.82,0:07:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: So, when you're inside \Nof the headset.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.28,0:07:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not seeing it like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.35,0:07:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're looking around through this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.42,0:07:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice you see full\N360 degrees in all directions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.71,0:07:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you're sitting there\Nin her room, watching her,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.66,0:07:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not watching it through\Na television screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.12,0:07:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not watching it through a window,\Nyou're sitting there with her.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.52,0:07:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look down, you're sitting\Non the same ground that she's sitting on.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.92,0:07:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.67,0:07:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel her humanity in a deeper way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.05,0:07:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You empathize with her in a deeper way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.59,0:08:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that we can change\Nminds with this machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.92,0:08:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've already started\Nto try to change a few.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.69,0:08:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we took this film to the World Economic\NForum in Davos in January.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.54,0:08:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we showed it to a group of people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.02,0:08:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose decisions affect the lives\Nof millions of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.10,0:08:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are people \Nwho might not otherwise
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.20,0:08:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be sitting in a tent \Nin a refugee camp in Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.62,0:08:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in January, one afternoon\Nin Switzerland,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.81,0:08:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they suddenly all found themselves there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.31,0:08:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.100,0:08:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were affected by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.06,0:08:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're going to make more of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.37,0:08:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're working with the \NUnited Nations right now
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.46,0:08:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shoot a whole series of these films.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.52,0:09:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just finished shooting\Na story in Liberia.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.19,0:09:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, we're going \Nto shoot a story in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.63,0:09:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're taking these films,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.51,0:09:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're showing them \Nat the United Nations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.04,0:09:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to people that work there and people\Nwho are visiting there.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.02,0:09:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're showing \Nthem to the people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.81,0:09:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can actually change the lives\Nof the people inside of the films.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.27,0:09:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's where I think we just\Nstart to scratch the surface
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.96,0:09:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the true power of virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.61,0:09:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a video game peripheral.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.84,0:09:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It connects humans to other humans\Nin a profound way
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.41,0:09:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've never seen before \Nin any other form of media.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.87,0:09:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it can change people's\Nperception of each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.61,0:09:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's how I think
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.30,0:09:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,virtual reality has the potential\Nto actually change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.60,0:09:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's a machine,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.15,0:09:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but through this machine\Nwe become more compassionate,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.07,0:09:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become more empathetic,\Nand we become more connected.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.67,0:10:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And ultimately, we become more human.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.49,0:10:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.65,0:10:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)