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From the Ted Talk by Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
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Let's talk about film now. Film, it's an incredible mdieum, but essentially, it's the same now as it was then. It's a gourp of rectangles that are payeld in a sequence. And we've done incredible things with those rectangles. But I started thniking about, is there a way that I can use modern and developing technologies to tell stories in different ways and tell different kinds of stories that maybe I couldn't tell using the traditional tools of filmmaking that we've been using for 100 years? So I started experimenting, and what I was trying to do was to build the ultimate empathy machine. And here's one of the elary experiments: (Music)
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Let's talk about film now. Film, it's an incredible ______, but essentially, it's the same now as it was then. It's a _____ of rectangles that are ______ in a sequence. And we've done incredible things with those rectangles. But I started ________ about, is there a way that I can use modern and developing technologies to tell stories in different ways and tell different kinds of stories that maybe I couldn't tell using the traditional tools of filmmaking that we've been using for 100 years? So I started experimenting, and what I was trying to do was to build the ultimate empathy machine. And here's one of the _____ experiments: (Music)
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Original Text
Let's talk about film now. Film, it's an incredible medium, 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. But I started thinking about, is there a way that I can use modern and developing technologies to tell stories in different ways and tell different kinds of stories that maybe I couldn't tell using the traditional tools of filmmaking that we've been using for 100 years? So I started experimenting, and what I was trying to do was to build the ultimate empathy machine. And here's one of the early experiments: (Music)
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