(Music) Professor Ken Perlin: The high-level goal of the NYU Holodeck project is to understand how people can
better collaborate with each other using
technologies that are just around the
corner.  When I was a child I read Harold
and the Purple Crayon
and I was very inspired by this idea of
this little boy who could take his
crayon and draw anything he wanted, and
that would come to life and become
whatever worlds he had in his
imagination. We're building that software.
It's called Chalk Talk, and when someone
draws something in Chalk Talk it comes
to life, it becomes simulations, it
becomes animations of characters, it
becomes science explanations. We hope
that as wearables make augmented reality
available to everybody, this becomes
integrated in how we talk to each other
in our everyday lives as part of our
language. One of the projects we're doing
here we call Cave.
It's a prototype for a new kind of audience experience. You put
on your virtual reality headset, you see
each other but you're all transported
together, the entire audience, into a
completely different world. You can have
the infinite possibilities of cinema but
also the immediacy in the sense of
physicality and presence of theater. This
project is different from other VR
projects because it's really about
people sharing an experience together
and also sharing a physical space
together. It's not about technology, it's
about trying to understand how we can
use technology, whatever that technology
might be, to help people to communicate
better with each other. (Music)
