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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I experienced something so powerful\NI spent the rest of my life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searching for it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in all the wrong places.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I experienced wasn't virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is where the story begins.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to the Beatles' "White Album,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the look on my face
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a feeling that I've been\Nsearching for ever since.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music goes straight\Nto the emotional vein,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your bloodstream,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right into your heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It deepens every experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fellows?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the amazing McKenzie Stuckard\Nand Joshua Roman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music.
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,,Yep.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music makes everything\Nhave more emotional resonance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see how it goes with this talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The right piece of music\Nat the right time fuses with us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a cellular level.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I hear that one song
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from that one summer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that one girl
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm instantly transported\Nback there again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, Stacey.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a part of the story, though,\Nwhere I got a little greedy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought if I added more layers\Non top of the music,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could make the feelings\Neven more powerful,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I got into directing music videos.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what they looked like.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my brother, Jeff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry about this, Jeff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's me, just so we're even.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tried all the moves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should've been a dancer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These experiments grew and in time\Nstarted to look more like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In both, I'm searching\Nfor the same thing, though,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to capture that lightning in a bottle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, I'm not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adding moving pictures over the music\Nadded narrative dimension, yes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but never quite equated\Nto the power that just raw music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had for me on its own.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a great thing to realize\Nwhen you've devoted your life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and professional career to becoming\Na music video director.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept asking myself,\Ndid I take the wrong path?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started thinking, if I could\Ninvolve you, the audience, more,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might be able to make you\Nfeel something more as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Aaron Koblin and I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began auditioning new technologies\Nthat could put more of you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside of the work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like your childhood home\Nin "The Wilderness Downtown,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your hand-drawn portraits,\Nin "The Johnny Cash Project,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your interactive dreams
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in "Three Dreams of Black."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were pushing beyond the screen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to connect more deeply
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to people's hearts and imaginations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it wasn't quite enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It still didn't have the raw\Nexperiential power of pure music for me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started chasing a new technology\Nthat I only had read about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in science fiction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after years of searching,\NI found a prototype.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a project from Nonny de la Peña\Nin Mark Bolas's lab in USC,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I tried it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew I'd found it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could taste the lightning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was called virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was at five years ago\Nwhen I ran into it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it looks like now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I quickly started building things\Nin this new medium,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and through that process\Nwe realized something:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that VR is going to play\Nan incredibly important role
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history of mediums.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it's going to be the last one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this because it's the first medium\Nthat actually makes the jump
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our internalization\Nof an author's expression
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our experiencing it firsthand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look confused.\NI'll explain. Don't worry.
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,,If we go back to the origins of mediums,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by all best guesses,\Nit starts around the fire
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a good story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our clan leader is telling us\Nabout how he hunted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the woolly mammoth\Non the tundra that day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hear his words
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and translate them\Ninto our own internal truths.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same thing happens\Nwhen we look at the cave painting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,version of the story,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the book about the mammoth hunt,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the play,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the radio broadcast,\Nthe television show,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the movie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these mediums require\Nwhat we call suspension of disbelief,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's a translation gap\Nbetween the reality of the story
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our consciousness\Ninterpreting the story
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into our reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm using the word consciousness\Nas a feeling of reality that we get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our senses experiencing\Nthe world around us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual reality bridges that gap.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you are on the tundra\Nhunting with the clan leader,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you are the clan leader,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe you're even the woolly mammoth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's what special about VR.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In all other mediums,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your consciousness interprets the medium.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In VR, your consciousness is the medium.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the potential for VR is enormous,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but where are we now?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the current state of the art?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you are here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the equivalent\Nof year one of cinema.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Lumière brothers film\Nthat allegedly sent a theater
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of people running for their lives
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they thought a train\Nwas coming towards them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similar to this early stage\Nof this medium,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in VR, we also have to move past\Nthe spectacle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into the storytelling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took this medium decades\Nto figure out its preferred language
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of storytelling in the form\Nof a feature film.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In VR today, we're more learning grammar
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than writing language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've made 15 films in the last year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at our VR company, Vrse,\Nand we've learned a few things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found that we have a unique,\Ndirect path into your senses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your emotions, even your body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me show you some things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the purpose of this demo,\Nwe're going to take every direction
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could possibly look
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stretch it into this giant rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, here we go.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, first,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,camera movement is tricky in VR.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Done wrong, it can actually make you sick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found if you move the camera\Nat a constant speed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a straight line,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can actually get away with it, though.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first day in film school,\Nthey told me that you have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to learn every single rule\Nbefore you can break one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have not learned every single rule.\NWe've barely learned any at all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're already trying to break them\Nto see what kind of creative things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can accomplish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this shot here, where we're moving up\Noff the ground, I added acceleration,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I did that because\NI wanted to give you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a physical sensation\Nof moving up off the ground,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in VR, I can give that to you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So not surprisingly,\Nmusic matters a lot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this medium as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It guides us how to feel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this project we made\Nwith the New York Times' Zach Richter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our friend J.R.,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take you up in a helicopter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even though you're flying\N2,000 feet above Manhattan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't feel afraid,\Nyou feel triumphant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for J.R.'s character.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The music guides you there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrary to popular belief,\Nthere is composition in virtual reality,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's completely different than in film\Nwhere you have a rectangular frame.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Composition is now\Nwhere your consciousness exists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how the world moves around you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film, "Waves of Grace,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a collaboration between Vrse,\Nthe United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gabo Arora, and Imraan Ismail,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also see the changing role\Nof the closeup in virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A closeup in VR means you're\Nactually close up to someone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It brings that character inside\Nof that personal space,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a space that we'd usually reserve\Nfor the people that we love,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you feel an emotional closeness\Nto the character
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of what you feel\Nto be a physical closeness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Directing VR is not like directing\Nfor the rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more of a choreography\Nof the viewer's attention.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One tool we can use\Nto guide your attention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is called spatialized sound.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I can put a sound anywhere\Nin front of you, to left or right,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even behind you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you turn your head,\Nthe sound will rotate accordingly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I can use that to direct your attention\Nto where I want you to see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next time you hear someone\Nsinging over your shoulder,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might be Bono.
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,,VR makes us feel like we\Nare part of something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For most of human history,\Nwe lived in small family units.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started in caves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and moved to clans and tribes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then villages and towns,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now we're all global citizens.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I believe that we are still hardwired\Nto care the most about the things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are local to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And VR makes anywhere\Nand anyone feel local.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it works\Nas an empathy machine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our film "Clouds Over Sidra"\Ntakes you to a Syrian refugee camp,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead of watching a story\Nabout people over there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's now a story about us here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where do we go from here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tricky thing is that\Nwith all previous mediums,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the format is fixed at its birth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film has been a sequence of rectangles.\NFrom Muybridge and his horses to now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the format has never changed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But VR as a format, as a medium,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't complete yet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not using physical celluloid\Nor paper or TV signals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It actually employs what we use
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sense of the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're using your senses\Nas the paints on the canvas,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only two right now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually, we can see if we will have\Nall of our human senses employed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we will have agency to live\Nthe story in any path we choose.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we call it virtual reality right now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what happens when we move\Npast simulated realities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we call it then?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if instead of verbally\Ntelling you about a dream,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could let you live inside that dream?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if instead of just experiencing\Nvisiting some reality on Earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could surf gravitational waves\Non the edge of a black hole,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or create galaxies from scratch,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or communicate with each other\Nnot using words
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but using our raw thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not a virtual reality anymore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and honestly I don't know\Nwhat that's called,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I hope you see where we're going.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here I am intellectualizing\Na medium I'm saying is experiential,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so let's experience it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In your hands, you hopefully hold\Na piece of cardboard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let's open the flap,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tap on the power button\Nto unlock the phone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the people watching at home,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are going to put up a card right now\Nto show you how to download
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this experience on your phone yourself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you even get a Google cardboard\Nof your own to try it with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We played in cardboard boxes as kids,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as adults, I'm hoping we can all find\Na little bit of that lightning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by sticking our head in one again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you're about to participate\Nin the largest collective VR viewing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in history,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that classic old-timey style\Nof yesteryear,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're all going to watch something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the exact same time together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's hope it works.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the countdown now? I can't see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crowd: 16... 15... 14...\N13... 12... 11... 10... 9...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Train engine)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice: Let me tell you how I shot\Nthe cover of the New York Times Magazine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking New York.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just constructed [???]\Noutside [the little tent],
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to be perfectly verticle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I could grab it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I was perfectly above,\Nyou know, with the wind,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had to redo it a few times,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I keep shooting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice: Dear Lord,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protect us from evil,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for your are the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the light.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You who gave us life took it away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let your will be done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please bring peace to the many\Nwho have lost loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to live again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice: There are more kids in Zaatari\Nthan adults right now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are the ones in charge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: How was it?
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,,That was a cheap way of getting you\Nto do a standing ovation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just made you all stand.\NI knew you'd applaud at the end of it.
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,,I believe that everyone on Earth\Nneeds to experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you just experienced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That way we can collectively\Nstart to shape this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as a tech platform,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as a humanity platform,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to that end, in November of last year,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the New York Times and Vrse made\Na VR project called "The Displaced."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It launched with one million\NGoogle cardboards sent out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to every Sunday subscriber\Nwith their newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a funny thing happened\Nthat Sunday morning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people got them\Nthat were not the intended recipients
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the mailing label,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we started seeing this\Nall over Instagram.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look familiar?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music led me on a path\Nof searching for what looked like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unattainable for a very long time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, millions of kids just had\Nthe same formative experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had in mine,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only I think this one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surpasses it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see where this leads them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)