The Realities of Virtual Reality

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We've put it off for long enough. It's time to talk about VR.

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0:00.0	It happened in the autumn forest, where the trees constantly shed copper-colored leaves,
0:15.0	and there's always a chill in the air.
0:19.8	We are walking in Magical Forest today, where creatures with musical teeth sing us
0:24.6	lullabies, and will even visit the ocean floor for a relaxing swim with the beautiful sea
0:30.3	life there.
0:31.3	It's note to self, the tech show about being human, I'm a new summer Odie, and we're all
0:37.5	about understanding technology so that we can better understand ourselves.
0:54.9	And we wonder how the ability to transport our minds to these other worlds could alter
1:01.4	how we experience this world, the real one.
1:07.4	Hi, note to self has a new friend who's going to help us out on this one.
1:12.2	I'm Max Reed, I'm a senior editor in New York Magazine, and we are at the Tribeca Film
1:17.4	Festival's Story Space Story Spaces.
1:20.9	Story Spaces.
1:21.9	Story Spaces, which is an exploration of technology and virtual reality in particular,
1:27.2	and film, I guess.
1:28.9	You just made it sound super boring by giving me the original title of it.
1:33.2	An admission listener, I have not been interested in virtual reality or Oculus Rift or the HTC
1:40.2	Vive or any of the virtual reality headsets that are coming on the market this year.
1:45.5	As someone who is just trying to get through actual reality, virtual reality has not appealed.
1:51.4	But with Mark Zuckerberg calling VR the next major computing and communication platform,
1:57.4	I figured it was time for us to get a handle on what this next wave of technology is
2:01.9	really going to be like.
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