Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine




Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind everything …

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  1. Başlıkta ;Dan Ariely: Dünyanın ne kadar eşit olmasını istiyoruz? Şaşırırsınız!" yazıyor.u anlatan Dan Ariely değil.Başlığı değiştirir misiniz lütfen ?

  2. Put one of these on Trump and mentally transport him to the jungle as an orangutang running for it's life from bulldozers… or a seabird drowning in oil might do the trick ??‍♂️

  3. En un mundo donde todo esta a un click de distancia pero las "obligaciones" crean barreras que imposibilitan el acercamiento, considero que es una herramienta para sensibilizar bastante efectiva, de alguna manera puedes poner a cualquier persona en los zapatos de cualquier persona y poder entrar en la realidad total que da esta herramienta, habilita todos los sentimientos compasivos que como seres humanos nos caracteriza. .Que importante aporte da la tecnología a la sociedad!

  4. Do you mean this machine will help me to have more and quick intuition that help them to understand the people's body language and therefore how they think? But, I think people do have good to moderate intuition? Does this not enough?

  5. I like this video so much. But, Why I have to wear oculus rift machine to be a humanitarian or to think good about others. Has this good feeling come naturally from the core? Thus if I fed up of wearing this tool I can easily throw it with my good thinking!

  6. Good tech, but even on my latest smart phone, some of the vids (from Vrse) are jittery. These are going to look much nicer and will be a more realistic experience when displays get better and hardware gets faster (not there yet).

  7. Disturbing that someone would try to tell kids they can fly! Some people will try to. I think I gain sufficient empathy through 2D documentary and in my opinion this is a waste of western tax dollars, who is paying for this? Do all peoples want to lose their identity or heritage? No? So why are people constantly pushed to do so? I'm finding more and more evidence that white people are being persecuted and this is the first time I have ever obliged myself to write "white people" in a sentence. Time to speak up I guess for I do fear that we are losing our heritage. The good and the bad.

  8. This presentation makes this techy, geeky filmmaker teary-eyed. I just got my own Samsung Gear VR and am cobbling together a 360 camera rig by velcro'ing two Kodak PixPro 360s together (an affordable solution till that Kickstarter I backed sends me a 4K Sphericam 2). As a storyteller, I am so very excited and inspired right now with the potential of this medium. The world is still figuring out what we can do with VR, but I look forward to experimenting, creating and sharing what will hopefully be moving experiences with the world. Chris Milk is my hero.

  9. You are forgetting that we are very stubborn some people might get out of VR and realize it was all a trick to make them "good", so you get them stuck on a loop and actually make them either worse or crazier.

  10. This guy and people like him must be smoking crack. This technology stuff is an addiction that's relegated to urban areas. Out here in the country we have zero interest in this crap. About half the people I know own a computer. About a quarter own a cell phone. I've never seen an eye-tampon or whatever they're called. Or a tablet, for that matter, except in the drug store. The thumb-zombie types that like this stuff live in cities. Kids where I live are outdoors, playing sports, raising animals for 4-H club stuff.

    I'm not kidding when I say it's an addiction like crack. We can spot a city person a mile away out here. They tend to go through crack-like withdrawal, jonesing for their Interweeb and citified "entertainment", thumbs flailing away, a manic, glazed expression on their faces.

    I personally think that people who are really into this stuff are sick. It's fun as an occasional diversion, like going into the city to see a movie once every six months, but all the time? That's not entertainment. It's an addiction.

  11. Emotional manipulation – good or bad? Eliciting empathy is a propaganda technique. Chris Milk doesn't mention that VR, like any medium, can be used for good or evil. "It makes us more human" – OR- it makes us more violent, or more servile, or more delusional, or more compliant with statist and global agendas. It just depends on what's on the screen. He is proud of his persuasion, and his intentions seem to be noble, but many other people will use this to persuade in different ways. Some social engineers and control agents will see Virtual Reality as a better tool for social conditioning and brainwashing. They will be right. That is what Chris Milk is saying. I am not saying the medium is bad, it is as good or bad as the content, but we need to stay conscious and skeptical of whatever media we consume and not trust the meduim based on one application.

  12. It all depends on how virtual reality subject matter is presented.  Virtual reality video games seem to lessen human qualities by delivering violence and mayhem without the pain and suffering being experienced.  They seem to build up a tolerance and addiction for more violence and mayhem that finds it's way out onto the street.

  13. Just what the social justice video market needed, Virtual Reality. How about some GAIMZ! At the start when the girl was sitting in class and the camera panned to the door I thought some terrorists were going to bust through and I could start shooting them. Make that game instead, I'll buy it.

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