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Chris Milk

Co-Founder and CEO, Within · 2 appearances on the record.

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Chris Milk is a director and immersive artist known for pioneering virtual reality storytelling and directing music videos. He co-founded the immersive technology company Within, which produced landmark VR works such as Clouds Over Sidra and created the VR fitness platform Supernatural.

17statements → 8claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.18/5average debate potential → 5said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 predictions · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 7 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Chris argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Milk: VR will feature AI-driven interactive rendered humans
“You imagine on the real-time render side, that's going to get faster. You're going to have real-time rendered humans and environments that are driven by AI that you can interact with.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:04 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience

How they sound: speaking style how? →

245 words/min while actually speaking · 24.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Chris Milk: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,770 words across 2 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Chris Milk said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Milk: Virtual reality is the ultimate empathy machine
“With the audience, and the subject matter, and the characters inside of the virtual reality worlds that you're building, and there's a lot of, and I talk about this, and I did a pet talk about this whole topic, is like, I'm saying virtual reality is like, it i…”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:42 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Insight
Milk: A 'Netflix for VR' cannot exist without a back catalog
“You could not start Netflix of the art today because there's no back catalog to license every, every, you know, Netflix starts and they license a hundred something years of cinema and television and they have a catalog. Got it. And you pay for it, access that …”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:53 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Insight
Milk: Virtual reality is the final storytelling medium in human history
“This is the last medium and the reason that is, is because it's the, it is the first, it's the first medium where the technology actually allows the jump from it being, like, An observable technology to being a human interface where the technology is not obser…”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:25 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Insight
Milk: Convincing VR audio-visuals lead brains to accept imprecise physical feedback
“Your brain automatically just starts connecting the senses together, if it believes two of them, so you don't even have to get it that close to make it really feel something.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:58 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Milk: A $100M VR Movie Cannot Recoup Its Budget Today
“You're not going to make a hundred million dollar movie right now because you're never going to make a hundred million dollars back from your VR movie because there's not a hundred, there's not a marketplace to make it.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:38 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Milk: Hollywood is shifting from marketing-funded to monetized VR content
“We're starting to see a shift from VR pieces that are exclusively funded by marketing budgets, because that's all there was to fund them with in the last year to more of the forward thinking studios actually funding content for the purpose of monetizing it.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:11 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Milk: Multi-million dollar VR content cannot recoup costs in 2017
“That's not entirely possible with the current addressable market, I think, in virtual reality, when you're spending millions of dollars on, on a piece of content”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:07 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Milk: VR will democratize human experience like the internet democratized information
“What you're going to see in the long term, especially with virtual reality is. The sort of democratization of human experience in the same way that the internet led to the democratization of information.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:39 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Insight
Milk: VR format is fluid and constantly evolving, unlike static cinema
“What's different about virtual reality is the format is fluid. So you, and you see it changing on a bi-monthly basis where you're now able to tell a new kind of story because the actual format has changed.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:03 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Prediction Held up
Milk: VR will feature AI-driven interactive rendered humans
“You imagine on the real-time render side, that's going to get faster. You're going to have real-time rendered humans and environments that are driven by AI that you can interact with.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:04 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Milk: VR user-generated content will transform consumer memory capture
“UGC is very difficult at the moment, but it will be, it will transform an industry of consumers capturing memories and replaying them.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:09 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Disclosure
Milk: Vrse targets world leaders at Davos with UN VR documentaries
“We're not just showing it to people on the streets raising money, which we are doing, but we're also specifically targeting world leaders, both in the United Nations and places like Davos and the World Economic Forum, the people that can actually affect change…”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:50 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Insight
Milk: VR camera movement avoids nausea if kept at constant velocity
“What we found was that you can move the camera if you keep it at a constant motion.”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:39 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Milk: Discovering the VR equivalent of a movie will take years
“We don't know, it's not going to be about making a movie in virtual reality. It's about figuring out what the equivalent of a movie is, what a movie is to cinema or film what is the equivalent of that in virtual reality, and that will take years to figure out”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:34 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Insight
Milk: VR uniquely drives emotion by directly manipulating viewer physical biology
“That's a hundred percent a creative tool that we, and it's a tool that we've never had in any other medium because I'm, like, I'm actually getting inside of you and tweaking your physical biology and making you feel like something on an emotional standpoint fr…”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:05 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Insight
Milk: VR is a distinct medium whose solitary nature resembles reading
“It is a completely different medium, and it's going to have its own set of rules, its own set of pluses and minuses, and people don't talk about books not being, you know, a worthwhile, valid medium because you can't sit in a room with a hundred other people a…”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:07 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Milk: Shared VR experiences will not rely on theaters or physical pods
“I don't think it's converted movie theaters. I don't think it's pods and we're actually working on a number of different ways to accomplish this”
Chris Milk Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:01 a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience Jan 2, 2019 7m
a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 16m
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