Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Working at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling. Full bio
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in sort of an unusual place.
I was seven years old.
khi tôi mới 7 tuổi
to access virtual reality
that particular item:
over 100 feet at top speed.
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
cùng nhau nhảy qua hẻm núi Snake River
I only got the motorcycle.
tên lửa, tôi chỉ có chiếc mô tô.
với thế giới này.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
khi trưởng thành, tôi muốn thành diễn viên đóng thế.
là bạn đồng hành của tôi.
(Cười)
music videos that I made:
đầu tiên mà tôi làm.
some slight similarities here.
điểm chung nhỏ ở đây.
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
hay, bắt đầu trở thành nhà làm phim.
available to me as a filmmaker
mà tôi có, là một nhà làm phim, tôi
that I can to an audience.
that allows us to feel empathy
foreign from our own.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
that I worshipped as a child,
tôn thờ từ khi còn nhỏ,
to become as an adult,
now as it was then.
played in a sequence.
with those rectangles.
kì diệu với những hình chữ nhật đó.
and developing technologies
the traditional tools of filmmaking
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
tôi muốn tạo ra là máy thấu cảm.
thí nghiệm đầu tiên:
"The Wilderness Downtown."
"Thành Phố Hoang Dã"
với Arcade Fire.
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
nhập địa chỉ nhà nơi bạn sinh ra.
boxes with different browser windows.
running down a street,
chạy trên phố,
and Google Maps imagery
he's running down is yours.
cậu ấy đang chạy là đường nhà mình
he stops in front of your house.
having an even deeper emotional reaction
I had made in rectangles.
làm với các hình chữ nhật.
a piece of your history
the framing of the story.
inside of the frame?
bạn vào khung hình?
making art installations.
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
Linh Thiêng"
you the third panel.
chiếu màn ảnh thứ 3.
visceral emotional reactions
phim này mãnh liệt hơn
and what do they represent?
chúng tượng trưng cho cái gì?
television, cinema --
truyền thông như TV, rạp phim --
these other worlds.
I got you in a frame.
I don't want you in the window,
I want you on the other side,
is like dancing about architecture.
about architecture in virtual reality.
Why is it difficult to explain?
giải thích. Tại sao lại khó vậy?
experiential medium.
it feels like truth.
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
of a virtual reality film:
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
in every direction
that face in every direction.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
is not a view into the world,
stretched into a rectangle.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
our virtual reality company called VRSE
in Jordan in December
girl there named Sidra.
through the desert into Jordan
camp for the last year and a half.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
tỉnh Daraa, thành phố Inkhil
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
I was a baby and he says I did not.
than my brother.
of the headset.
360 degrees, in all directions.
in her room, watching her,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
minds with this machine.
to try to change a few.
Forum in Davos in January.
of millions of people.
who might not otherwise
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
in Switzerland,
United Nations right now
a story in Liberia.
to shoot a story in India.
at the United Nations
that are visiting there.
them to the people
of the people inside of the films.
start to scratch the surface
in a profound way
in any other form of media.
perception of each other.
to actually change the world.
we become more compassionate,
and we become more connected.
là con người hơn.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Milk - Immersive storytellerWorking at the frontiers of interactive technology, Chris Milk stretches virtual reality into a new canvas for storytelling.
Why you should listen
Chris Milk is a visual artist who has created music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Beck, U2, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley and many more. He is known for weaving artistic and technological innovations in pursuit of the next great platform for storytelling. Milk's acclaimed interactive projects include Wilderness Downtown (with Arcade Fire), The Johnny Cash Project and The Treachery of Sanctuary. His interactive installation artworks have been showcased at the MoMA, the Tate Modern and museums around the world.
Milk's most recent contribution to the art and tech frontier is as founder and CEO of the virtual reality company Within (formerly Vrse). In collaboration with the New York Times, Zach Richter and JR, Milk created two VR films, Walking New York and The Displaced, which were distributed along with Google Cardboard viewers to 1 million NYT subscribers in 2015. He has also collaborated on VR projects with the United Nations (Clouds Over Sidra and Waves of Grace), Vice, SNL and U2.
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