Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Chris Milk: Jak virtuální realita pomáhá vzájemnému porozumění
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.
začal neobvykle.
I was seven years old.
bylo mi sedm.
to access virtual reality
mi pomohly hračky
Evela Knievela.
that particular item:
představovali v reklamě.
Evel předvádí skvělé kousky."
uletěl přes 30 metrů."
over 100 feet at top speed.
tehdy hrál.
jsem jezdil všude možně.
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.
přes Snake River Canyon.
ale měl jsem jenom tu motorku.
I only got the motorcycle.
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.
ale kaskadér, až vyrostu.
a já byl s ním.
hudební videa.
music videos that I made:
some slight similarities here.
jisté návaznosti.
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,
nebo s tím aspoň začínám.
available to me as a filmmaker
filmového média,
that I can to an audience.
co nejpůsobivější příběhy.
that allows us to feel empathy
foreign from our own.
empathy for us that we felt for him,
that I worshipped as a child,
Můj dětský idol,
to become as an adult,
se chtěl jednou stát,
od svého vzniku nezměnil.
now as it was then.
played in a sequence.
které pustíte za sebou.
with those rectangles.
jdou dělat skvělé věci.
and developing technologies
moderní technologie
jiné příběhy
the traditional tools of filmmaking
tradiční filmařské nástroje,
to build the ultimate empathy machine.
který by co nejlépe předal emoce.
"The Wilderness Downtown."
"Arcade Fire".
where you grew up at the beginning of it.
adresu místa, kde jste vyrostli.
boxes with different browser windows.
objevují tahle okénka.
running down a street,
and Google Maps imagery
Google Street a Google Maps.
he's running down is yours.
he stops in front of your house.
domem, a je to váš dům.
having an even deeper emotional reaction
mnohem emotivněji
I had made in rectangles.
v obdélníčcích.
a piece of your history
kousek vaší minulosti
the framing of the story.
inside of the frame?
do záběru úplně?
making art installations.
uměleckými instalacemi.
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."
"Zrádné útočiště".
you the third panel.
Tohle je třetí panel.
do záběru celého člověka
visceral emotional reactions
niternější citovou odezvu,
and what do they represent?
přemítat, co je to záběr.
television, cinema --
televize či kino
these other worlds.
I got you in a frame.
vás dostal do okna.
I don't want you in the window,
dostat na druhou stranu.
I want you on the other side,
v tom druhém světě.
k virtuální realitě.
is like dancing about architecture.
about architecture in virtual reality.
S pomocí virtuální reality.
Why is it difficult to explain?
realitu uchopit?
experiential medium.
prožitkové médium.
it feels like truth.
that you're inside
byli jinde
that you're inside of it with.
of a virtual reality film:
ve virtuální realitě.
all the information
we shoot virtual reality.
ze všech směrů.
in every direction
a stereofonní mikrofony
that face in every direction.
a sphere of a world that you inhabit.
jako jakousi kouli kolem vás.
is not a view into the world,
pohled do jiného světa,
stretched into a rectangle.
na 2D plátno.
"Clouds Over Sidra,"
"Mraky nad Sidrou".
our virtual reality company called VRSE
realitu, VRSE,
Gabo Arora.
in Jordan in December
uprchlickém táboře v Jordánsku
girl there named Sidra.
dívenky jménem Sidra.
through the desert into Jordan
přes poušť do Jordánska
camp for the last year and a half.
v uprchlickém táboře.
in the Daraa Province, Inkhil City.
z města Inkhil."
in Jordan for the last year and a half.
v táboře Zaatari v Jordánsku."
a ten poslední je miminko."
že já jsem tak často neplakala."
I was a baby and he says I did not.
than my brother.
vydržela víc než bráška."
of the headset.
to nevidíte takhle.
360 degrees, in all directions.
ve všech směrech.
in her room, watching her,
a television screen,
you're sitting there with her.
Jste tam s ní.
on the same ground that she's sitting on.
probouzí intenzivněji.
minds with this machine.
můžeme měnit pohled na svět.
to try to change a few.
lidí pokusili.
Forum in Davos in January.
na Světové ekonomické fórum.
of millions of people.
životy milionů lidí.
who might not otherwise
in a refugee camp in Jordan.
ve stanu uprchlického tábora.
in Switzerland,
odpoledne ve Švýcarsku
všichni ocitli.
filmů víc.
United Nations right now
a story in Liberia.
příběh v Liberii.
to shoot a story in India.
příběh v Indii.
at the United Nations
that are visiting there.
a návštěvníkům.
them to the people
of the people inside of the films.
životy lidí, které filmujeme.
start to scratch the surface
virtuální reality.
in a profound way
lidi tak hluboce,
in any other form of media.
médií nezažil.
perception of each other.
vzájemné porozumění.
to actually change the world.
skutečně měnit svět.
we become more compassionate,
probouzí více soucitu,
and we become more connected.
Sbližuje nás.
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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