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Zoic Studios Director and Co-Founder Loni Peristere, CTO Saker Klippsten and Executive Producer Matt Thunell; VR Playhouse Co-Founder and CEO Christina Heller; and Reel FX Head of Business Development/Strategic Partnerships Chuck Peil will be presenting on respective VR and government-focused panels at this year’s SXSW 2017. The SXSW official scheduling website released the synopses of each panel; the date and time of each panel specifically has yet to be announced. Click HERE to see all the panels accepted to SXSW.
The panels are listed as follows:
DoD, Silicon Valley, Hollywood: Hacking for Defense
Matt Thunell adds his filmmaking expertise alongside government representatives Christopher Zember of National Defense University, Jackie Space from Hacking for Defense and Jared Dunnmon from Stanford University to discuss utilizing the startup method to hasten national security best practices. The panelists ask, “In a crisis, national security initiatives move at the speed of a startup yet in peacetime they default to long procurement cycles. Can the DoD benefit from the startup culture and non-traditional partners to become more efficient?”
Can a Film Made by a Machine Move You?
As the panel title asks, Saker Klippsten, Loni Peristere, and Alastair Green from Team One wonder if filmmaking in all its emotive power is a “uniquely human skill.” To experiment, Zoic Labs and Saatchi/Team One established open source and AI tools to produce a film entirely “conceived, directed, and edited by AI.” The talk will expand upon filmmaking in all its humanity, as well as the art of storytelling as a whole.
Virtual Psychedelics: How VR Affects Your Brain
Christina Heller is the voice of VR on the shared panel with Glenn Snyder from Turing Tesla and Associates/Master of Shapes, Sook-Lei Liew from the University of Southern California and Taryn Southern from Happy Cat Media & Tribe of Good. The panel explores the after-effects of virtual reality exposure, including the added benefits of experiencing VR entertainment. Can virtual reality make a viewer a “more self-actualized person?” In the panel, “VR experts will discuss how specially designed immersive content allows viewers to have out-of-body experiences, expanding consciousness, tolerance and understanding in society.”
Wrapped Up in the Big Screen: Amplifying Cinematic Film and TV with VR
Chuck Peil joins Christine Cattano of Framestore, Ted Schilowitz of 20th Century Fox and Daniel Engelhardt of Lionsgate will discuss virtual reality as a tool to bring immersive film experiences to a “cord-cutting” generation unenthused by standard theater cinema. With technology on the rise, younger generations require bigger and better exhibitions to remain entranced by film. The panel description reads, “Immersive VR experiences have evolved into the next level of movie and TV trailers for a continually tech and media-savvy generation, luring them into fresh cinematic content and holding their interest in between seasons for highly anticipated franchises. A panel of studio, VR, production and tech experts will discuss campaign results, best practices and an outlook for the future.”
SXSW 2017 will take place in Austin, TX on March 10-19, 2017.