At this talk, she was presenting the work of her students in the Visible Language Workshop on immersive interactive computer interface environments.The talk was exceedingly successful, so much so that apparently Bill Gates asked for a copy of the materials afterwards.
Video walls for the Nets in Times Square. Immersive environments for National Amusements where there was digital art and movie trailers on all the screens.We've also done some R & D with artificially intelligent characters and-and holograms that will respond to speech and movement.
Also, as a journalist, I feel that we have a moral responsibility to bear witness to injustice, to wonder, to the human condition. With immersive journalism, I am merging those new technologies with that code of ethics. I'm also founding director for the Narrative and Emerging Media program at Arizona State University.
But it is important to find your flow so that you don't lose this essential absorptive immersive aspect of life. And once you have found your flow, you will see your energy. You don't have to train yourself towards it. It just flows towards that. And it results in deep intellectual spontaneous engagement and
ethical reasons. But immersive video games feel closer to reality than the abstract discussions you might have in a philosophy classroom. There's even science to back this up.
I'm immersed in sound. And immersive sound gives you that same experience in recorded music. Do you agree with that?
The concept of a cyberspace. An immersive reality. So since you wrote that story. And at the time nothing existed except for bulletin boards and a few mailing lists.
I find that a lot more distracting obviously than -- sometimes when I get the actual paper, I realize just how deeply I read it. Sunday spent with the Times is really an immersive experience. I read sections – I would never even think of -- automobile -- I don't even know how to drive yet there's something fascinating about those, you know, the articles. So and the other thing that I like about books
uh and we can see what effects it has and they may have some opinions about it and we can really have these very rich immersive conversations. uh and going back to your point you made earlier about uh intuition we can bring our collective intuition right but I think the key here is we must have the customers part of this which is what they were saying in that case the factory flow of the customers are the people who are the employees and the supervisors so they make sure
What's the aroma that you're getting? So that immersive thing. Yeah. My nephew, who's absolutely useless-- --he's one of those techie types, like some of you guys, I think.
We've been able to survive every financial downturn and sometimes the Engine's been funding the business because we didn't have a game. It really felt immersive .
It's kind of like you're a bird flying through the park and looking around, or like a mini jet or something. It's just incredibly immersive . The goggles have a 90-degree field of view, which is the widest in any flying FPV goggles: 2560 by 2560 per eye,
I'm very excited to introduce today's guest, Annie Eaton. Annie Eaton is an immersive content producer, specializing in engaging and interactive virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. She is the founder and CEO of Futurus, which provides training and product visualization applications and provides technology consulting for various enterprise organizations
and nonprofits. She is here with us today to discuss her book, "The Extended Reality Blueprint," where she delves into the discovery and product development process through an immersive technology lens. Annie Eaton, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Talks at Google.
So I'd love for you to share with us, what impact do you hope that your book will have on readers who are really interested in learning more and getting started with immersive technologies? I hope they realize it's approachable and that anyone from any industry with any background can get into it.
like, bawling. And I'm like, I didn't know how to feel about it. It's a very immersive show.
And let me ask you, so what do you think-- what are the most important principles you think are, which can become this core directions for moving forward? And these immersive realities start to be really, really interesting.
to have a multi-immersive , surrounding, brand new experience, not just a hotel across the street from Caesars that could get lost in the mix.
This is an immersive entertainment complex.
All the immersive world video games are improving our computer graphics program.
And it was about immersive virtual reality.
It's amazing how immersive this experience is, even though these images are only two dimensional.
is so immersive and complete that we then believe it to be true and objective, that was this sort of eye opening,
Well, especially for the people in the middle, because they are the ones who are sitting within our set up. They've experienced immersive sound, immersive meaning generating a 3D image that blurs the lines between the digital and physical. Or to say it in a simpler way, when I'm performing with an orchestra, I am always amid the orchestra.
And of course, being a producer, I wanted to record, record it in a way that hasn't been done before, not thinking at that time about immersive sound, because I didn't even know it existed. But I wanted to have a really big canvas, because that is very important to put a 90 piece orchestra.
And then the other eight tracks that I had to mix got remixed. Now with technologies and immersive sound being created in a way where you could place a listener in the center of the platform
It was truly an immersive experience.
It was an incredibly immersive experience based on the Nine Inch Nails album called Year Zero. Trent Reznor had made this album and he had a problem. He essentially created
Adrian Danchig-Waring: Highly immersive is what I would call it.
teams to creative immersive interactive spaces for a number of industries including healthcare education retail
How does the immersiveness of this help with this oneness, with this trouble that we're experiencing within what you do?
The Stanford Executive Program is an immersive educational experience for senior leaders to move into
We've been able to survive every financial downturn and sometimes the Engine's been funding the business because we didn't have a game. And that was a really amazing and immersive experience.
And it was such an immersive experience.
And let me ask you, so what do you think-- what are the most important principles you think are, which can become this core directions for moving forward? when we shift from social interaction to immersive interaction, in a way you experience reality without being there.
education as well as these immersive experiences where you really get the opportunity to test
That's going to be quite an immersive experience.
we're going to create this immersive environment.
I like this idea of immersive film.
If I give you an immersive experience, that's going to teach you way more than something that you would have to theorize before you
Video games also often present imagined scenarios that test the player. They can set us up in immersive worlds where certain conditions are true, like a world in which there's a floating city and people can travel between dimensions, and then either show us how the simulation plays out or allow us to act according to our beliefs and goals.
another way to take that kind of immersive experience and and to put it in your home and I'm never going to tell
It has to be an immersive experience.
It's a much more immersive experience.
Yeah, well I'm a goodwill ambassador in the fight against human trafficking. And I want to make an immersive sound experience that can travel from music festival to music festival that gives people an experience of like three minutes, an experience of how it feels to have your identity taken away and to have control of your life taken away.
And it's amazing that stuff that's done 10 years ago, and you get only the way they work in steps-- in groups of instruments. Like you could still do with immersive sound to make a different experience in the dance. And I've just recently done a project with a guy called He's a DJ out of London, and that's EDM music.
It's sort of an eight screen immersive experience where you get to hear both the audio and the visual from lives of these people that David and Naomi and others have
It has the capability of being immersive . And it blurs boundaries relentlessly. The
that role provides that degree of immersiveness that I think everyone's striving towards.
Even the birds were gone. I'm best known for having pioneered something called immersive journalism, which uses emerging technologies to create new stories that represent our world the way it really is: fully dimensional and not flat.