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VR Pioneer Chris Milk: Virtual Reality Will Mirror Life Like Nothing Else Before (Jason Ganz)

I don’t think the future of VR looks like video games; I don’t think it looks like cinematic VR; I think it looks like stories from our real lives.

It’s the most amazing afternoon you’ve ever had. For one person, it might be what we call a rom-com, for another it might be an action movie. For another, it might be something we don’t have a movie genre preexisting for. It might be just exploring.”

VR Pioneer Chris Milk: Virtual Reality Will Mirror Life Like Nothing Else BeforeChris Milk, founder and CEO of virtual reality company Within (formerly Vrse), has a vision for the future of stories. He was kind enough to take some time at Singularity University Global Summit to sit down and walk me through a wide-ranging conversation touching upon the future of storytelling as a medium, virtual reality as a platform for innovation and the wildly exciting interactions between virtual reality and other exponential technologies…

Source: VR Pioneer Chris Milk: Virtual Reality Will Mirror Life Like Nothing Else Before

Really great Insights: The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience (Stanford d.school)

As VR storytellers, we are charged with molding experience itself into story, and none of our storytelling tools have prepared us fully for that. As we stumble our way into this new, mysterious medium, we ask ourselves, “How do we tell a story for the audience when the audience is present within it?”

Being bodily present in the story seeds the need to be active, to “do.” But how does the audience know what to do? And how do we take their needs and perspective into consideration? To even scratch the surface of these questions, we need to better understand the audience’s experience in VR — not just their experience of the technology, but the way that they understand story and their role within it…

Source: The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience — Stanford d.school — Medium

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