Name: 【TED】Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine (Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine)
Uploaded: 2015-06-21T16:01:40.000Z
Duration: 10 min 26 s
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Virtual reality started for me
in sort of an unusual place.

Adverbs of degree

I got into the field very young:
I was seven years old.

And the tool that I used 
to access virtual reality

This is a commercial for 
that particular item:

That gyro-power sends him 
over 100 feet at top speed.

Chris Milk: So this was my joy back then.

And I was there with Evel Knievel; we 
jumped the Snake River Canyon together.

I never got the rocket,
I only got the motorcycle.

I didn't want to be a storyteller 
when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.

And this is one of the early
music videos that I made:

CM: You may notice 
some slight similarities here.

So, now I'm a filmmaker,
or, the beginning of a filmmaker,

and I started using the tools that are
available to me as a filmmaker

to try to tell the most compelling stories
that I can to an audience.

And film is this incredible medium
that allows us to feel empathy

for people that are very different than us

and worlds completely 
foreign from our own.

Evel Knievel did not feel the same 
empathy for us that we felt for him,

On the upside, the man 
that I worshipped as a child,

the man that I wanted 
to become as an adult,

but essentially, it's the same
now as it was then.

It's a group of rectangles that are
played in a sequence.

And we've done incredible things
with those rectangles.

is there a way that I can use modern
and developing technologies

that maybe I couldn't tell using
the traditional tools of filmmaking

and what I was trying to do was
to build the ultimate empathy machine.

So this is called
"The Wilderness Downtown."

It asked you to put in the address
where you grew up at the beginning of it.

And out of it starts growing these little
boxes with different browser windows.

And you see this teenager 
running down a street,

and then you see Google Street View
and Google Maps imagery

and you realize the street
he's running down is yours.

And when he stops in front of a house,
he stops in front of your house.

And this was great, and I saw people 
having an even deeper emotional reaction

to this than the things that 
I had made in rectangles.

And I'm essentially taking 
a piece of your history

and putting it inside 
the framing of the story.

but how do I put all of you
inside of the frame?

So to do that, I started
making art installations.

And this is one called 
"The Treachery of Sanctuary."

It's a triptych. I'm going to show
you the third panel.

and I saw people having even more
visceral emotional reactions

But then I started thinking about frames,
and what do they represent?

I mean, all the media that we watch --
television, cinema --

they're these windows into 
these other worlds.

And I thought, well, great. 
I got you in a frame.

But I don't want you in the frame,
I don't want you in the window,

I want you through the window,
I want you on the other side,

So that leads me back to virtual reality.

talking about virtual reality
is like dancing about architecture.

And this is actually someone dancing
about architecture in virtual reality.

So, it's difficult to explain.
Why is it difficult to explain?

It's difficult because it's a very 
experiential medium.

it feels like real life,
it feels like truth.

And you feel present in the world
that you're inside