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SUMMARY: What if watching a movie was more like being inside the movie? With virtual reality, your brain can be tricked into believing that you’re flying or in a different country -- a powerful creative tool for storytellers. Jeffrey Brown visits the Sundance Film Festival to witness how filmmakers are beginning to use the burgeoning technology.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): I am flying through San Francisco.
Yes, it’s true. I’m a bird soaring among the buildings of the city by the bay.
I crashed.
Well, I sure felt like I was flying. But I’m actually stretched out somewhat awkwardly on a contraption called Birdly. And I’m in Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival, where one of the main attractions this year is an exhibition called New Frontier, showcasing a new world filmmakers are now exploring, virtual reality.
Shari Frilot served as curator.
SHARI FRILOT, Curator, “New Frontier”: In terms of what’s coming out of the storytelling community, we’re really starting to see the first steps, the first baby steps of what is to come, but I do think it’s going to grow very big.
JEFFREY BROWN: One of the leaders is Chris Milk, who’s made a name for himself as a director of music videos that push the envelope of technological effects.
Here’s how he describes the virtual reality, or V.R. difference.
CHRIS MILK, Filmmaker/Founder, VRSE.com: We always are watching the visual stories, the moving picture stories that we watch through these frames. It’s always a frame, it’s always a rectangle, whether it be your television set or your computer screen or a movie screen.
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