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Just had our first intimate dinner in New York as part of our ongoing series bringing together minds in the arts/culture/tech worlds 🍷

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This is the diamond age. We engage with practicing the expansion of our vision. Helps us dismantle the act of othering. @Cabbibo

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VR is interactive and the participant is authoring their own experience #LincolnWallen

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@Cabbibo: How do you engage with a character without totally destroying the story? #LincolnWallen : Take the tamagotchi for instance

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I have a living memory of things in my living room (a floating dead body) from a VR experience after the headset came off @eyc

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It's interesting we have empathy machines when we haven't mastered human to human empathy @ivyeross

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Presence and storytelling are in strange conflict with each other in VR aka the Swayze effect @eyc

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"Immersion is easy when it's a social thing." @Cabbibo

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Is AR distracting? @ivyeross says it layers info & enriches ur experience. "Happy glasses" for children with Aspergers to read expressions

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"Eye contact, if we lose that, that's like our souls talking to each other" @ivyeross

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"This gen of technology has broken through the barrier of a sense of presence" #LincolnWallen CTO of Dreamworks

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@oliviasolon sets the tone: is VR out of touch w/senses? AR is a digital overlay. Masses aren't familiar with VR

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Thanks to @sherpafoundry! Immersive Reality Check is getting under way 😎

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Bay Area Friends! In a panel w/ Lincoln Wallen / @eyc / Ivy Ross. Would luv 2 see u there ;) https://t.co/gcDNXKxD1Z

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Think you know something about ARVR? Come to Monday's SF salon & have your knowledge tested against some of the industry's leading thinkers

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Launching this evening at fuseproject: #lightslant #HumanizingRobots
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