#263 Can VR Increase Your Empathy?
The Gabby Reece Show
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4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this bonus episode, we're diving deep into into the transformative and sometimes overwhelming world of technology with Elijah Allen Blitz. From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, Elijah shares his extensive experience and pioneering work in utilizing technology to enhance storytelling, improve empathy, and influence cultural change. This conversation explores the vast potential of technological tools to reshape our perceptions and experiences, both digitally and in the real world.
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Elijah Allan-Blitz is an Emmy Award-winning director. He was the first VR director for Time magazine with an experience about the Holocaust created as a companion piece for the Ken Burns documentary, "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War." He has since partnered with Van Jones to create the Messy Truth VR experience, a virtual reality series starring Marvel actors designed as a curriculum for empathy. Most recently, he directed the first AR short film for Disney+ called "Remembering." Elijah has also directed VR experiences for Aloe Blacc, PBS, Laird Hamilton, HBO, and Michael Pollan.
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| 0:31.9 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Gabby Ree Show. |
| 0:34.0 | All right, Eliza, |
| 0:37.0 | Allejo, All right, Eliza Allen Blitz, here we are in our bonus episodes. |
| 0:47.0 | And, you know, I was reminded the other day when we shot a video about, we'll go over some of the questions people had, is maybe you could just, |
| 0:56.3 | and why I pick on you to be my liaison to technology, maybe you could share just, of all your fascination with it and then in some of the ways you've implemented it into your own work and career because you've been in so many ways on a few occasions had to cut the path as you walked it. |
| 1:15.3 | So maybe we can just we can start there because I think a lot of times we dive right in but people |
| 1:19.8 | don't know how you have been experiencing technology these last several years? |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah so you mean not just AI just in my life technology in general? |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah I mean I guess it started like when I was little because I was always |
| 1:35.6 | mega I got I'll pull this closer I was always I was always making movies and like I |
| 1:41.8 | remember being like a little kid running around with like a old BHS camera we had at the house. |
| 1:46.7 | And I remember when the first version of I-M movie came out and it was like I was always using technology to try and tell better stories or like trying to get whatever I had in my head out. |
| 1:57.0 | And so that progressed throughout my life and then about 10 years ago I saw my first VR experience and I was just like it's not like oh that's the answer but it was like this is going to be part of the future and so I |
| 2:09.4 | they started exploring that and it was like this synchronistic snowball from the universe just saying like yeah this is the path and all these things started happening and |
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