Travis Wu: Storytelling through Virtual Reality

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Channel: INKtalks · 2018 · Education

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http://inktalks.com Entrepreneur Travis Wu talks of the power of storytelling in bringing humanity together. He demonstrates how Virtual Reality can help us tell stories and must be used for that end! For, as human beings ‘what we really crave is not entertainment, but being understood by one another.’

Talk recorded at Road to GES 2017

ABOUT TRAVIS WU: Travis co-founded LumiereVR with the determination to bring empathetic cinema to life through Virtual Reality. He uses his background in computer science to build tools and and softwares that empower and challenge filmmakers to explore new depths with this new medium. Today LumiereVR is partnering with artists and corporations, setting up VR theatres across the United States to make VR content available to the general public. 

ABOUT ROAD TO GES 2017: As a lead up to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (2017), ‘Road to GES: Beyond Boundaries’ was a unique conference where for the first time ever INK (India's leading thought-leadership platform), T-Hub (India's largest startup incubator), NITI Aayog (National Institute for Transforming India, GOI) and Telangana Government came together as hosts. 

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