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Virtual reality aims to transform movies
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CHRIS Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies.
While much of the early attention on virtual reality has focused on use of the immersive technology in video games, Milk and his US startup Vrse are using it to transform storytelling and filmgoing.
“We have just started to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality,” Milk said. “It’s not a video game peripheral. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way... I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.”
He had everyone in the Vancouver audience at TED hold Google Cardboard viewers to their eyes for what was billed as the world’s collective virtual reality experience.
Google Cardboard gear is literally that — cardboard with a slot for holding smartphones at act as screens for viewing. Ear buds plug into smartphones to tune into soundtracks.
Audience members gasped collectively at times as they found themselves virtually transported in front of an oncoming locomotive, the sky above a city, a stage with a rock band and elsewhere.
“It is the first medium that actually makes the jump from the author’s expression of an experience to our experiencing it first hand,” Milk said.
Vrse has made more than a dozen virtual reality films in the past year.
“It is amazing that you can just take a cardboard box and add it to someone’s smartphone and have an experience like that together,” Milk said.
“Virtual reality is not just a social experience, but a collective experience.”
Milk sees virtual reality as bringing people together by sharing places and experiences instead of isolating them in fantasy worlds disconnected from what is going on around them.
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