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From the Ted Talk by Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form

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So Aaron Koblin and I baegn aniitudiong new technologies that could put more of you inside of the work, like your childhood home in "The Wilderness Downtown," your hand-drawn portraits, in "The jonhny Cash Project," and your interactive dreams in "3 Dreams of Black." We were pushing beyond the screen, trying to cnocnet more deeply to people's hearts and imaginations. But it wasn't quite enough. It still didn't have the raw experiential power of pure music for me.

So I started chasing a new toegchonly that I only had read about in science fiction. And after years of shnceriag, I found a prototype. It was a project from Nonny de la Peña in Mark Bolas's lab in USC. And when I tried it, I knew I'd found it. I could ttsae the lightning. It was called vartuil reality. This was it five years ago when I ran into it. This is what it looks like now.

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So Aaron Koblin and I _____ ___________ new technologies that could put more of you inside of the work, like your childhood home in "The Wilderness Downtown," your hand-drawn portraits, in "The ______ Cash Project," and your interactive dreams in "3 Dreams of Black." We were pushing beyond the screen, trying to _______ more deeply to people's hearts and imaginations. But it wasn't quite enough. It still didn't have the raw experiential power of pure music for me.

So I started chasing a new __________ that I only had read about in science fiction. And after years of _________, I found a prototype. It was a project from Nonny de la Peña in Mark Bolas's lab in USC. And when I tried it, I knew I'd found it. I could _____ the lightning. It was called _______ reality. This was it five years ago when I ran into it. This is what it looks like now.

Solution


  1. connect
  2. searching
  3. auditioning
  4. began
  5. taste
  6. virtual
  7. technology
  8. johnny

Original Text


So Aaron Koblin and I began auditioning new technologies that could put more of you inside of the work, like your childhood home in "The Wilderness Downtown," your hand-drawn portraits, in "The Johnny Cash Project," and your interactive dreams in "3 Dreams of Black." We were pushing beyond the screen, trying to connect more deeply to people's hearts and imaginations. But it wasn't quite enough. It still didn't have the raw experiential power of pure music for me.

So I started chasing a new technology that I only had read about in science fiction. And after years of searching, I found a prototype. It was a project from Nonny de la Peña in Mark Bolas's lab in USC. And when I tried it, I knew I'd found it. I could taste the lightning. It was called virtual reality. This was it five years ago when I ran into it. This is what it looks like now.

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