It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic. Chris Milk More Quotes by Chris Milk More Quotes From Chris Milk What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience. Chris Milk perspectiveuniquepeople For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are. Chris Milk funny-thingsemotionalweight My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Chris Milk emotionalmotivationreal I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience. Chris Milk fourteamyears Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl. Chris Milk soundtracksgirlsummer Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction. Chris Milk concretevideoemotional As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable". Chris Milk discussionfilmmakerteam What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion. Chris Milk datafashiontechnology Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Chris Milk walkempathyshoesreality Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world. Chris Milk youtechnologyrealityworld It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world. Chris Milk change-the-worldchangepeopleworld I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves. Chris Milk everything-changesalwaysbornworld With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another. Chris Milk cinemapowerfulliteraturereality Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend. Chris Milk eventsomethingjournalismpeople My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can. Chris Milk emotionalmusicmotivationreal In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else. Chris Milk momenttechnologybrainreality Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience. Chris Milk youexperiencerealitypeople There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's affordable and doesn't make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content. Chris Milk yousickworkpeople My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us. Chris Milk moresomethingthingscare Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core. Chris Milk yourgreatmusicemotion
