S1E8: VR or It Didn’t Happen

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

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🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is the technology an accurate recreation of the experience, or does it fool us into thinking we’ve encountered the real thing when we’ve done nothing of the sort? Guests include: Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer; Nonny de la Pena, VR artist; Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.3	This is Stella E, which is this big tall, how many feet tall is that?
0:42.2	It must be about 35, 40 feet tall.
0:44.5	Yeah, I think it's about 25 or 30 feet tall.
0:46.9	So it looks a bit like, I suppose, a totem pole or something like that with lots of carvings.
0:52.2	And on the front you've got a figure. Yep.. And on the front you've got a figure,
0:55.6	and then on the sides you've got these square glyphs,
0:58.9	which are the writing.
1:01.3	Seth, I went to see Stella E, which is a huge stone carving
1:04.8	made by the Maya civilization in what's now Guatemala.
1:08.0	Apparently, it's the largest freestanding carved monument
1:10.8	from the ancient
1:11.4	Americas and its surfaces covered with the symbols that the Maya used for writing.
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