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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…”
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 …”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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”
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…”
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…”