And other fascinating thoughts about Virtual Reality, as told in an interview to FilmInk.
What is the exact nature of your role at Viacom?
We are Viacom NEXT, an R&D group within Viacom who are creating, producing, and exploring Virtual Reality (VR) 1as it pertains to entertainment. We’re the guys who are being tasked to see where the industry as a whole is headed, to go to where the puck is going and not where it is, to mangle a famous Wayne Gretzky quote.
It’s clear to us that a new medium is being invented, complete with all the requisite uncertainty and chaos. We rapidly-prototype through the affordances of VR to find out what…
A rant about the distribution of attribution in collaborative mediums.
I can’t remember exactly when I wrote this but it was years ago, under the influence of coffee and rage; then quickly published on an old blog, only to be republished again on my relatively-newer-but-still-old-and-now-abandoned blog in 2013. Some of the references are dated, but the sentiments are still as valid and current. I’m re-posting this now on Medium after watching ‘Hollywood’s Greatest Trick’ and feeling that similar rage, though with considerably less coffee.
A curious coincidence, but the past few weeks have been riddled with serendipitous discussions on the ‘Auteur Theory’. The last straw was today, while I was…
David Shiyang Liu
Creative Director, VR at Viacom NEXT. also ex-filmmaker. game designer. Oddball Generalist. Formerly EA Maxis, CMU ETC. All opinions mine.
