Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
克里斯·米爾克: 虛擬實境如何創造人性化的機器
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.
虛擬實境是以一種特殊方式開始的。
I was seven years old.
當時我七歲,
to access virtual reality
that particular item:
over 100 feet at top speed.
到達 100 英尺的高度。
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
跳過了蛇湖峽谷。
I only got the motorcycle.
我只有得到摩托車。
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
我想成為一個特技演員。
艾佛·克尼沃是我的朋友。
music videos that I made:
some slight similarities here.
一些細微的相同點。
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
或者說,一個新手的電影製片人。
available to me as a filmmaker
我可以利用的製片工具
that I can to an audience.
that allows us to feel empathy
讓我們感同身受,
foreign from our own.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
感受到我們的感受,
that I worshipped as a child,
那個我小時候一直崇拜的男人,
to become as an adult,
是一種不可思議的媒介,
now as it was then.
它發展至今並沒有變化。
played in a sequence.
按一定的順序播放。
with those rectangles.
製作了很多令人難以置信的電影。
and developing technologies
讓我運用現代先進技術,
the traditional tools of filmmaking
傳統技藝表達出來的故事,
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
"The Wilderness Downtown."
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
boxes with different browser windows.
會從不同的瀏覽器視窗出現。
running down a street,
and Google Maps imagery
你會看見谷歌街景和谷歌地圖圖像
he's running down is yours.
就是你童年呆過的地方。
he stops in front of your house.
正好停在你的房子面前。
having an even deeper emotional reaction
我發現大家有更深層次的情感反饋。
I had made in rectangles.
a piece of your history
the framing of the story.
inside of the frame?
將你們的全部融入這個框架呢?
making art installations.
我開始加入藝術效果。
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
you the third panel.
我現在向你展示第三聯畫。
visceral emotional reactions
and what do they represent?
這代表了什麼?
television, cinema --
所有的媒體﹣電視、電影﹣
these other worlds.
I got you in a frame.
好的,你進入了我設計的框架。
I don't want you in the window,
不想讓你出現在我的窗口,
I want you on the other side,
完全融入那個世界。
is like dancing about architecture.
用舞蹈來解釋建築設計一樣。
about architecture in virtual reality.
就像舞蹈之於建築。
Why is it difficult to explain?
experiential medium.
it feels like truth.
它就像現實一樣。
that you're inside
that you're inside of it with.
of a virtual reality film:
我要向大家展示一個虛擬實境的剪輯:
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
in every direction
that face in every direction.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
構建了一個大家居住的世界。
is not a view into the world,
不僅是這世界的一個拍攝角度,
stretched into a rectangle.
長方形的世界。
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
our virtual reality company called VRSE
in Jordan in December
一個位於約旦敘利亞難民營
girl there named Sidra.
名叫錫德拉的故事。
through the desert into Jordan
穿過沙漠來到了約旦
camp for the last year and a half.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
印基爾市。
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
約旦的扎塔里營地,已經有一年半了。
I was a baby and he says I did not.
是不是也經常哭,他說沒有。
than my brother.
of the headset.
當你戴上這個裝置時,
360 degrees, in all directions.
360 度全方位的世界。
in her room, watching her,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
你是真實地與她坐在一起。
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
你會發現你與她坐在同一塊地板上。
minds with this machine.
這個機器改變人的想法。
to try to change a few.
Forum in Davos in January.
帶到了在達沃斯的世界經濟大會,
of millions of people.
會影響數以百萬人的生活。
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.
和去那裡參觀的人看。
them to the people
of the people inside of the films.
真正改變電影裡的人的命運。
start to scratch the surface
in a profound way
緊密的方式連接在一起
in any other form of media.
perception of each other.
to actually change the world.
we become more compassionate,
and we become more connected.
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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