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Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
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Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.
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I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.
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If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.
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Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
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What we want Vrse to be is a collection of the best in class - the greatest cinematic VR that you can see, and a place that you can trust.
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My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.
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My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
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I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.
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It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.
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If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.
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If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.
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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
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Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
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Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.
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In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.
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My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
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With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another.
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I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff.
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When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone's familiar with that.
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We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.
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Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
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