Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine

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1. Complete. Global. Lactation.

2. Para-social interactions are fascinating. I’m hoping to write my doctoral thesis on using virtual reality as an adaptive technology for simulating social interactions to help improve the social skills with adolescents and adults on the Autism spectrum. How amazing to think that down the line adaptive technology could be a WHOLE immersive world for those who have such a hard time filtering and processing the world. So happy to have stumbled on this TEDTalk!

3. nobody cares about that girl, so useless

4. Başlıkta ;Dan Ariely: Dünyanın ne kadar eşit olmasını istiyoruz? Şaşırırsınız!" yazıyor.u anlatan Dan Ariely değil.Başlığı değiştirir misiniz lütfen ?

5. w e l c o m e
   you have entered the secret society of
   p i g e o n m i l k e r s

6. Great video ! Chris Milk's video about Virtual Reality has really influenced my team to make a VR project called Medusa.
   The immersive aspect is a great opportunity to feel closer to others.
   We even have a post of Facebook where you can debate about VR and empathy !
   https://www.facebook.com/MedusaVR/photos/a.522846621515225/537225716743982/?type=3&theater

7. En un mundo donde todo esta a un click de distancia pero las "obligaciones" crean barreras que imposibilitan el acercamiento, considero que es una herramienta para sensibilizar bastante efectiva, de alguna manera puedes poner a cualquier persona en los zapatos de cualquier persona y poder entrar en la realidad total que da esta herramienta, habilita todos los sentimientos compasivos que como seres humanos nos caracteriza. .Que importante aporte da la tecnología a la sociedad!

8. he had a right to sue you……what happened?

9. This is a great way to spread propaganda. Check this out: "Crystallizing Public Opinion"
   byEdward L. Bernays

10. The Sidra Project is a powerful tool for building empathy and support for refugees using VR and the movie "Clouds Over Sidra" by Chris Milk & Gabo Arora. We are hoping to make a larger impact in Canada & perhaps around the world. Help us help refugees using VR. https://www.crowdrise.com/the-sidra-project

11. Great Video! VR is a great way to experience the virtual word. It has a great opportunity, it can open many possibilities in various fields. SteamRoll East

12. I think this is good for some people like vulnerable ones who have problems in their eyes.

13. Do you mean this machine will help me to have more and quick intuition that help them to understand the people's body language and therefore how they think? But, I think people do have good to moderate intuition? Does this not enough?

14. I like this video so much. But, Why I have to wear oculus rift machine to be a humanitarian or to think good about others. Has this good feeling come naturally from the core? Thus if I fed up of wearing this tool I can easily throw it with my good thinking!

15. Great presentation! I would of done it the same way ?

16. Good tech, but even on my latest smart phone, some of the vids (from Vrse) are jittery. These are going to look much nicer and will be a more realistic experience when displays get better and hardware gets faster (not there yet).

17. Disturbing that someone would try to tell kids they can fly! Some people will try to. I think I gain sufficient empathy through 2D documentary and in my opinion this is a waste of western tax dollars, who is paying for this? Do all peoples want to lose their identity or heritage? No? So why are people constantly pushed to do so? I'm finding more and more evidence that white people are being persecuted and this is the first time I have ever obliged myself to write "white people" in a sentence. Time to speak up I guess for I do fear that we are losing our heritage. The good and the bad.

18. Does anyone know if Chris Milk is married or gay? Huge crush, he's SO hot!

19. Nice propaganda machine buddy, manipulating peoples emotions is wrong, end of story.

20. VR Contact lenses soon will be a reality

21. This presentation makes this techy, geeky filmmaker teary-eyed. I just got my own Samsung Gear VR and am cobbling together a 360 camera rig by velcro'ing two Kodak PixPro 360s together (an affordable solution till that Kickstarter I backed sends me a 4K Sphericam 2). As a storyteller, I am so very excited and inspired right now with the potential of this medium. The world is still figuring out what we can do with VR, but I look forward to experimenting, creating and sharing what will hopefully be moving experiences with the world. Chris Milk is my hero.

22. So if I'm playing Doom using Oculus Rift (VR), does that make me more human or the worse kind of monster in the game?

23. What's the name for the spherical machine in the stage?

24. You are forgetting that we are very stubborn some people might get out of VR and realize it was all a trick to make them "good", so you get them stuck on a loop and actually make them either worse or crazier.

25. feels good to have two Galifianakis lol

26. This guy and people like him must be smoking crack. This technology stuff is an addiction that's relegated to urban areas. Out here in the country we have zero interest in this crap. About half the people I know own a computer. About a quarter own a cell phone. I've never seen an eye-tampon or whatever they're called. Or a tablet, for that matter, except in the drug store. The thumb-zombie types that like this stuff live in cities. Kids where I live are outdoors, playing sports, raising animals for 4-H club stuff.

    I'm not kidding when I say it's an addiction like crack. We can spot a city person a mile away out here. They tend to go through crack-like withdrawal, jonesing for their Interweeb and citified "entertainment", thumbs flailing away, a manic, glazed expression on their faces.

    I personally think that people who are really into this stuff are sick. It's fun as an occasional diversion, like going into the city to see a movie once every six months, but all the time? That's not entertainment. It's an addiction.

27. Reminds me of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

28. this guy is on a pre-zach galifianakis level of humor right now

    even the beard

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