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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.13,0:00:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.32,0:00:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I experienced something so powerful,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.85,0:00:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent the rest of my life\Nsearching for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.95,0:00:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in all the wrong places.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.33,0:00:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I experienced wasn't virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.63,0:00:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was music.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.25,0:00:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is where the story begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.80,0:00:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.19,0:00:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to the Beatles' "White Album."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.16,0:00:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the look on my face is the feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.35,0:00:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've been searching for ever since.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.94,0:00:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music goes straight to the emotional vein,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.55,0:00:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your bloodstream
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.18,0:00:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right into your heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.16,0:00:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It deepens every experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.72,0:00:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fellas?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.45,0:00:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.47,0:00:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the amazing McKenzie Stubbert
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.65,0:00:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Joshua Roman.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.55,0:00:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.74,0:00:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.96,0:00:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yep.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.63,0:01:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music makes everything\Nhave more emotional resonance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.23,0:01:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see how it does for this talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.82,0:01:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The right piece of music\Nat the right time fuses with us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.59,0:01:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a cellular level.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.38,0:01:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I hear that one song
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.50,0:01:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from that one summer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.49,0:01:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that one girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.48,0:01:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm instantly transported\Nback there again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.96,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, Stacey.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.91,0:01:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a part of the story, though,\Nwhere I got a little greedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.21,0:01:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought if I added more layers\Non top of the music,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.39,0:01:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could make the feelings\Neven more powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.67,0:01:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got into directing music videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.43,0:01:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what they looked like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.43,0:01:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my brother, Jeff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.80,0:01:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry about this, Jeff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.14,0:01:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.26,0:01:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's me, just so we're even.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.68,0:01:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Incredible moves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.44,0:01:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should've been a dancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.81,0:01:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.96,0:01:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These experiments grew,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.29,0:01:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in time, started\Nto look more like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.85,0:02:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In both, I'm searching\Nfor the same thing, though,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.52,0:02:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to capture that lightning in a bottle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.19,0:02:09.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, I'm not.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.89,0:02:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adding moving pictures over the music\Nadded narrative dimension, yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.26,0:02:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but never quite equated the power
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.81,0:02:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just raw music had for me on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.80,0:02:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a great thing to realize\Nwhen you've devoted your life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.97,0:02:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and professional career\Nto becoming a music video director.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.84,0:02:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept asking myself,\Ndid I take the wrong path?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.35,0:02:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started thinking: if I could\Ninvolve you, the audience, more,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.23,0:02:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might be able to make you\Nfeel something more as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.90,0:02:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Aaron Koblin and I began\Nauditioning new technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.11,0:02:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could put more of you\Ninside of the work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.27,0:02:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like your childhood home\Nin "The Wilderness Downtown,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.75,0:02:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your hand-drawn portraits,\Nin "The Johnny Cash Project,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.58,0:02:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your interactive dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.79,0:02:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in "3 Dreams of Black."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.47,0:03:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were pushing beyond the screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.45,0:03:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to connect more deeply
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.46,0:03:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to people's hearts and imaginations.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.74,0:03:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it wasn't quite enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.26,0:03:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It still didn't have the raw\Nexperiential power of pure music for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.44,0:03:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started chasing a new technology
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.53,0:03:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I only had read about\Nin science fiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.83,0:03:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after years of searching,\NI found a prototype.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.87,0:03:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a project from Nonny de la Peña\Nin Mark Bolas's lab in USC.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.10,0:03:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I tried it, I knew I'd found it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.10,0:03:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could taste the lightning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.33,0:03:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was called virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.05,0:03:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was it five years ago\Nwhen I ran into it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.53,0:03:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it looks like now.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.85,0:03:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I quickly started building things\Nin this new medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.78,0:03:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and through that process\Nwe realized something:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.66,0:03:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that VR is going to play\Nan incredibly important role
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.10,0:03:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history of mediums.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.68,0:04:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it's going to be the last one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.39,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this because it's the first medium\Nthat actually makes the jump
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.03,0:04:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our internalization\Nof an author's expression
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.34,0:04:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.04,0:04:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our experiencing it firsthand.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.69,0:04:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look confused.\NI'll explain. Don't worry.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.88,0:04:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.83,0:04:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we go back to the origins of mediums,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.04,0:04:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by all best guesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.43,0:04:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it starts around a fire,\Nwith a good story.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.99,0:04:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our clan leader is telling us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.48,0:04:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how he hunted the woolly mammoth\Non the tundra that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.07,0:04:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hear his words
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.09,0:04:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and translate them\Ninto our own internal truths.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.84,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same thing happens
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.03,0:04:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we look at the cave painting\Nversion of the story,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.24,0:04:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the book about the mammoth hunt,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.47,0:04:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the play,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.11,0:04:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the radio broadcast,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.75,0:04:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the television show,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.58,0:04:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the movie.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.53,0:04:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these mediums require\Nwhat we call "suspension of disbelief,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.29,0:05:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's a translation gap\Nbetween the reality of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.37,0:05:04.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our consciousness\Ninterpreting the story
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.82,0:05:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into our reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.08,0:05:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm using the word "consciousness"\Nas a feeling of reality that we get
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.18,0:05:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our senses experiencing\Nthe world around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.58,0:05:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual reality bridges that gap.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.98,0:05:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you are on the tundra\Nhunting with the clan leader,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.22,0:05:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you are the clan leader,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.60,0:05:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe you're even the woolly mammoth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.33,0:05:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.22,0:05:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's what special about VR.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.73,0:05:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In all other mediums,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.33,0:05:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your consciousness interprets the medium.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.04,0:05:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In VR, your consciousness is the medium.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.40,0:05:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the potential for VR is enormous.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.86,0:05:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where are we now?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.56,0:05:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the current state of the art?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.32,0:05:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.75,0:05:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.72,0:06:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the equivalent\Nof year one of cinema.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.90,0:06:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Lumière Brothers film
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.55,0:06:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that allegedly sent a theater full\Nof people running for their lives
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.93,0:06:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they thought a train\Nwas coming toward them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.14,0:06:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similar to this early stage of ths medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.44,0:06:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in VR, we also have to move\Npast the spectacle
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.00,0:06:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into the storytelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.91,0:06:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took this medium decades
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.68,0:06:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to figure out its preferred\Nlanguage of storytelling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.36,0:06:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the form of a feature film.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.16,0:06:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In VR today, we're more learning grammar
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.54,0:06:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than writing language.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.88,0:06:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've made 15 films in the last year\Nat our VR company, Vrse,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.46,0:06:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've learned a few things.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.80,0:06:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found that we have a unique,\Ndirect path into your senses,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.14,0:06:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your emotions, even your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.90,0:06:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me show you some things.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.60,0:06:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the purpose of this demo,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.02,0:06:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to take every direction\Nthat you could possibly look,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.11,0:06:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stretch it into this giant rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.08,0:06:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, here we go.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.64,0:07:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, first: camera movement\Nis tricky in VR.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.95,0:07:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Done wrong, it can actually make you sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.93,0:07:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found if you move the camera\Nat a constant speed in a straight line,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.45,0:07:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can actually get away with it, though.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.69,0:07:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first day in film school,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.44,0:07:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they told me you have to learn\Nevery single rule
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.06,0:07:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before you can break one.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.84,0:07:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have not learned every single rule.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.04,0:07:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've barely learned any at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.59,0:07:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're already trying to break them
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.43,0:07:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see what kind of creative things\Nwe can accomplish.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.98,0:07:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this shot here, where we're moving up\Noff the ground, I added acceleration.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.72,0:07:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did that because I wanted\Nto give you a physical sensation
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.58,0:07:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of moving up off the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.98,0:07:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In VR, I can give that to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.80,0:07:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.88,0:07:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not surprisingly, music matters a lot\Nin this medium as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.84,0:07:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It guides us how to feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.35,0:07:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this project we made\Nwith the New York Times's Zach Richter
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.70,0:07:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our friend, JR,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.48,0:07:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take you up in a helicopter,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.39,0:08:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even though you're flying\N2,000 feet above Manhattan,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.35,0:08:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't feel afraid.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.96,0:08:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You feel triumphant for JR's character.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.02,0:08:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The music guides you there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.52,0:08:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.36,0:08:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrary to popular belief,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.100,0:08:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is composition in virtual reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.68,0:08:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's completely\Ndifferent than in film,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.77,0:08:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you have a rectangular frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.52,0:08:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Composition is now\Nwhere your consciousness exists
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.06,0:08:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how the world moves around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.93,0:08:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film, "Waves of Grace,"\Nwhich was a collaboration between Vrse,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.32,0:08:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United Nations, Gabo Arora,\Nand Imraan Ismail,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.25,0:08:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also see the changing role\Nof the close-up in virtual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.14,0:08:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A close-up in VR means\Nyou're actually close up to someone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.95,0:08:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It brings that character inside\Nof your personal space,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.62,0:08:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a space that we'd usually reserve\Nfor the people that we love.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.49,0:08:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel an emotional\Ncloseness to the character
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.68,0:08:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of what you feel\Nto be a physical closeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.64,0:09:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Directing VR is not like\Ndirecting for the rectangle.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more of a choreography\Nof the viewer's attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.86,0:09:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One tool we can use\Nto guide your attention
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.48,0:09:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is called "spatialized sound."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.94,0:09:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can put a sound anywhere\Nin front of you, to left or right,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.93,0:09:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even behind you,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.33,0:09:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you turn your head,\Nthe sound will rotate accordingly.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.35,0:09:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I can use that to direct your attention\Nto where I want you to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.31,0:09:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next time you hear someone\Nsinging over your shoulder,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.91,0:09:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might be Bono.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.20,0:09:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.54,0:09:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,VR makes us feel\Nlike we are part of something.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.46,0:09:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For most of human history,\Nwe lived in small family units.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.99,0:09:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started in caves,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.53,0:09:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then moved to clans and tribes,\Nthen villages and towns,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.98,0:09:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now we're all global citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.21,0:09:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I believe that we are still\Nhardwired to care the most
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.04,0:10:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the things that are local to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.32,0:10:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And VR makes anywhere\Nand anyone feel local.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.31,0:10:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it works as an empathy machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.84,0:10:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our film "Clouds Over Sidra"\Ntakes you to a Syrian refugee camp,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.09,0:10:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead of watching a story\Nabout people over there,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.66,0:10:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's now a story about us here.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.39,0:10:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where do we go from here?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.43,0:10:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tricky thing is that\Nwith all previous mediums,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.91,0:10:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the format is fixed at its birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.18,0:10:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film has been a sequence of rectangles,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.10,0:10:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Muybridge and his horses to now.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.38,0:10:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The format has never changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.65,0:10:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But VR as a format, as a medium,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.37,0:10:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't complete yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.77,0:10:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not using physical celluloid\Nor paper or TV signals.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.99,0:10:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It actually employs what we use\Nto make sense of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.64,0:10:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're using your senses\Nas the paints on the canvas,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.57,0:10:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only two right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.65,0:11:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually, we can see if we will have\Nall of our human senses employed,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.52,0:11:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we will have agency to live\Nthe story in any path we choose.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.58,0:11:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we call it virtual reality right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.06,0:11:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what happens when we move\Npast simulated realities?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.34,0:11:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we call it then?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.50,0:11:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if instead of verbally\Ntelling you about a dream,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.36,0:11:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could let you live inside that dream?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.86,0:11:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if instead of just experiencing\Nvisiting some reality on Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.51,0:11:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could surf gravitational waves\Non the edge of a black hole,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.96,0:11:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or create galaxies from scratch,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.76,0:11:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or communicate with each other\Nnot using words,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.87,0:11:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but using our raw thoughts?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.25,0:11:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not a virtual reality anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.05,0:11:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And honestly I don't know\Nwhat that's called.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.88,0:11:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I hope you see where we're going.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.63,0:11:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here I am, intellectualizing\Na medium I'm saying is experiential.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.84,0:11:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's experience it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.84,0:12:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In your hands, you hopefully hold\Na piece of cardboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.14,0:12:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's open the flap.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.80,0:12:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tap on the power button\Nto unlock the phone.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.14,0:12:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the people watching at home,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.79,0:12:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to put up a card right now
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.65,0:12:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show you how to download\Nthis experience on your phone yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.91,0:12:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even get a Google cardboard\Nof your own to try it with.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.28,0:12:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We played in cardboard boxes as kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.83,0:12:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as adults, I'm hoping we can all find\Na little bit of that lightning
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.43,0:12:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by sticking our head in one again.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.62,0:12:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're about to participate
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.07,0:12:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the largest collective\NVR viewing in history.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.24,0:12:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that classic old-timey\Nstyle of yesteryear,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.88,0:12:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're all going to watch something
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.13,0:12:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the exact same time, together.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.02,0:12:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's hope it works.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.47,0:12:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the countdown\Nlook like? I can't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.56,0:12:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: ...15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.58,0:13:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.33,0:13:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Birds singing)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.51,0:13:25.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Train engine)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.35,0:13:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: (Shreiks)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.28,0:13:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) JR: Let me tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.60,0:13:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how I shot the cover\Nof the New York Times Magazine,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.10,0:13:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Walking New York."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.58,0:14:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just got strapped on\Noutside the helicopter,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.01,0:14:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to be perfectly\Nvertical so I could grab it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.28,0:14:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I was perfectly above --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.92,0:14:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, with the wind,\Nwe had to redo it a few times --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.68,0:14:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I kept shooting.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.60,0:14:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Woman's voice: Dear Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.90,0:14:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protect us from evil,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.65,0:14:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for you are the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.04,0:14:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.82,0:14:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You who gave us life took it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.19,0:14:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let your will be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.94,0:14:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please bring peace to the many\Nwho have lost loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.53,0:14:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us to live again.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.56,0:15:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.07,0:15:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video)(Children's voices)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.50,0:15:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Child's voice: There are more kids\Nin Zaatari than adults right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.92,0:15:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I think
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.98,0:15:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are the ones in charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.41,0:15:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Milk: How was it?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.81,0:15:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.55,0:15:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a cheap way of getting you\Nto do a standing ovation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.50,0:15:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just made you all stand.\NI knew you'd applaud at the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.33,0:15:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.100,0:15:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that everyone on Earth\Nneeds to experience
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.84,0:15:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you just experienced.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.04,0:16:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That way we can collectively\Nstart to shape this,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.23,0:16:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as a tech platform,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.02,0:16:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as a humanity platform.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.50,0:16:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to that end, in November of last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.71,0:16:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the New York Times and Vrse made\Na VR project called "The Displaced."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.02,0:16:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It launched with one million\NGoogle cardboards
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.39,0:16:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sent out to every Sunday subscriber\Nwith their newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.88,0:16:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a funny thing happened\Nthat Sunday morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.42,0:16:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people got them
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.77,0:16:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were not the intended recipients\Non the mailing label.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.00,0:16:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we started seeing this\Nall over Instagram.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.06,0:16:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look familiar?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.25,0:16:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music led me on a path
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.42,0:16:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of searching for what seemed\Nlike the unattainable
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.49,0:16:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a very long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.47,0:16:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, millions of kids just had\Nthe same formative experience
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.46,0:16:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their childhood
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.23,0:16:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had in mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.32,0:16:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only I think this one
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.57,0:16:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surpasses it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.36,0:16:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.86,0:16:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where this
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.57,0:17:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leads them.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.38,0:17:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.56,0:17:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)