Guideline of research and Virtual Reality and we are fascinated heavy chase away any perseid berendt to think about our body hasnt experiences and how we can change the way we experienced the worlds images me great pleasure to announce so it is about other people are doing to read hands our abilities. Beds with a biography cover in in teaches at ucberkeley. [applause] thanks for coming to see a new law third talk about her book. This is the first time. Led the sioux people are working with Virtual Reality. So whenever i give a talk if they want to see my jury it head. That i could basically e do this in two minutes. Says as a science reporter i teach a ucberkeley and i took one year off and i would post where i want to go on facebook to see if people bled put me up. My goal Pressler Douai in cutting edge research. wanted to see people who were doing science so i bet the bio hackers in a the robot builders and perfumers in all kinds of people to give you the short version i will tear. A adherent and here youd hear london. He and i could smell these things even those these. This is the first model because i wanted to a trustee and as this is part of the clock of days supercomputer. I have these augmented tattoos unfortunately they were temporary. I have stuff that looks like this in to that. To die did that to my laptop. End to divest in hand to my carriage. And then this happened and this happened and then finally this is happening. [laughter] google you havent had a chance so i will give you a quick overview this is about sensory perception. With hearing and touch it and the starting point is there is no one reality. So there is no one single experience in the world your brave is constructing a bad experience. A unit it has to be. Because were all genetically different. The part of that it is valuable. Behalf to filter touche construct a coherent experience. Huge most of all your senses are limited. To their other animals that can end cents more. Like the pit viper kansans the infrared even there are colleagues of bacteria. End one of the first thing this that i did is i bet with the bile hacker collective they were frustrated. Like qvc the sun said in a defer read . So they were building implants to give a new sensory experience. And while they were in extreme there part of the much Bigger Community canceled or delayed for medical purposes. To expand or your in humans it is almost like baskinrobbins eveready has a flavor. This gives you an idea. And betty the first person to get the rabil implant. Led one of lost it and he volunteered to be wound up first which is implanted inside of his eye he has a spectacles that translates the badges to stimulate those of the back of his right to travel up to his grave he perceives a certain form a vision and it is a what he remembered he doesnt see three dimensions or colors but flashes of light that indicate contrast points the dark candelight areas of that is enough to recognize objects the a debit one dash navigate. He cannot see biological material but concede your eyes. They are golden egg. He was seeing the reflection off of my glasses. I went to watch a robotics surgery. And why i had to get somebody vaccinations. He was hot operating across the roof because i wanted to understand because right now it has to do it officially they dont get the touched feedback that can cause some problems if they dont know how heavy they are polygon the suture you have to be able to judge did to visually with the robot. So ive learned of those labs that are working on how to reproof the feedback. But i realize it is for a girl prosthetics. So if they go something will fall. One of the state is the researchers tolls be is the lowes to use prosthetics like to feel the warmth of all loved ones had a hand touches very important. In the bill they have the ted thousand luthier clock. Sillcock valve last ted those whod years and the engineering problems. But it is everything with our experience. So low the argument that the greenwich is a technology. If you went to high school at the last century then cave this idea that was said there the concept of japan and the deadline until they discovered receptors then all the sudden everybody worried how to taste this case that looked for the and other candidates soling pledged affects the ability for what he taste so a group of volunteers add a hospital and france. Cell loss of smell is the first clinical symptoms of alzheimers. This is not budget tactical talks but one of the School Applications and just to talk about how all emerson these technologies can be. So my First Experience was 2,008 at stanford university. The First Experience if you were ever in a pit simulation before. You have to walk over. United is the immediate experience how you feel and course it is a test. And ed i did immediately. What do with your arms . Dont need for balance. He said people have of the worst experiences they screen a had run across the board another just couldnt do the story but i said what happens if id jump off . He said try it. I fell the end it was amazing but it was like going off the cliff and the roadrunner Kirk Gertrude lead now falls standing up sulindac to research and wanted to see a Virtual Reality had changed. To make the experience more holistic what i saw was amazingly real. And had this amazing experience rice spent time with a National Guard units. To participate in a Clinical Trial with the idea to be seen if they are more resilient by pretreating in exposing them in ephesians to situations they could experience in the war zone. The program is run by a psychologist at the is to for creative technologies and the already has spent one decade has uh tool to reach ptsd to come back from symptoms. He create their virtual iraqi virtual afghanistan to create stressful situations and they go into that scenario of the person who was guiding the simulation the therapist says tell me what has happened so if they say i remember gunfire or in the sandstorm. So these are images of a doctor in his lab. And this is the stressful to if we. That is a common situation. En to be the ambush situation. Id to be inside to be hit by the explosion. He doesnt only use vision for sound. That vibrate the vibrations of the of the order but to put put smiles and to the route because that is so provocative. And said to have the proper rifle is is just for the weight to carry that. He thought baby could have everybody eats as a spoonful of sealed with a taste. Solo this is meant to the hyper real. If fisker issue. But to be around since the mid80s. In into have guarded varieties. With virtual airplane intend elevators. For people with a fear of heights. And tuesday, virtual airplane could ride a real 1 stays state called it a real elevator to go on a real elevator. And by the bid ladies people who served in the viet newt who are part consisted vietnams war. End to treat the fear of spiders. When you are afraid to be stuck in an elevator you are afraid of what might happen and hopeless war it has already happened you have to resurface in actual memory. Every were unsure how hard that would be. So such as the immediate help one was of a Landing Strip and they were so worried that people would ripoff that held it and lead to other that to the ceiling. And the question in the powerful this scenario was. And that detail from the of memories. Bid higher every issues in the button. So really he says i want to do digital data of. And then the military realized there was the need. They believe the fed did truelove medicine published a 90 percent of soldiers richard e. But the requirements of ptsd. Even those coming from iraq depending on the branch service. And this is based on that logical principle to drink a lot of coffee lawyer take the test. So the ada is if you reduce stress when people are in a stressful situation and that this will subclass. So face to him, it is pg13 for violence and Strong Language in case anybody is your. I will share the first couple of minutes then i will fastforward. I am getting the beachball of death. We dont have anybody ideal. Jedi restart . Subject it was working when we tested before. Stick it turns out we only have so the technology. But the towns population is predominantly a negative. From the Residential District to have the highvalue individual area also known as a biscuit. I e. D. Shrapnel than your vehicle as driver you need to keep the right the beach read you move the one in frigid few. Stibnite that is a racist. There you go. Have a conscience. And head to deceive ledbetters lakes. To keep a certain distance. But what it tehs ago sold for a while. And tell it reaches is up 08 that you have to make and ethical decision. And that makes that decision about what to do. [inaudible] this is not romulus. Why are we pulling rover . Why are we stopping . Over. Roger. Out. Is he dead . Is he twitching or is he dead . He is alive. Sweet jesus. So basically should do get help . Were away to see . Sell a there is the current hit the advice for the situation in. So it does create disturbing video than it was the least disturbing of what i saw. And that ethical situation fifth to do with matters of conscience. So that this is an idea of the military use the also wanted to tell you about a different lab that is going blind sulindac to the lab at stanford, which five years later it had really changed used to be a road in the attic and now was remodeled with a beautiful studio with Movement Precision and tracking. In the version of the proteus effect to see if they shape shift in shape to see if that affects the behavior in real life so in earlier generations those that were made taller in the Virtual World selected more attractive as dating carters. And they found people exercise more if their average car was exercising and women who spent scored higher on acceptance so a woman who was sexually assaulted deserve that. So with this idea what happened in a Virtual World affects the real world. So with ambac but cut vienna day our virtual shower. Anand as they did it i could see the avatar of myself and as i washed my body is a unit said it just seemed to golan forever. So after words they would have you wash your hair as dipody you how much hot water that you use a few more worse as a debt to waste the energy if you use less hot water than those with a different experience. So they have a comptroller. So ive resigned hilltop surrounded and it was your bristly sad. And to not go over the glass of water. To the was as a measure to see if you could be conservative with paper. I am the cow and a lovely pasture put there because of wall crawling is hard to look down. Mike cow self is adorable. A pintsize pintsize brown and white cap with tiny curved horns and spindly legs. Mike cowthe same. I tried getting out of the field. The body transfer is to shift your conscious. That is just what were doing. Welcome to the stanford cow pasture. You are short horse breed of cattle. You are a dualpurpose breed. Is momentarily tried to be told that im suitable for be production but i roll with it. Walk over to a fee chart and eat. I do my best to position myself over the hay. My cow doubled is the same. The voice kicks off the mind blowing stacks of how much weight you must gain, 3 pounds a day to to bulk up to 600 pounds. I wonder if i should mind chewing but no one has requested it. Now the cow walks over to a water trough. My cow double and i look. I can see a cattle prod hovering in midair. In real world thats held by a lab assistant. Normally he would jab with it it lightly and i would see the cow prod coming at me while i felt it press into my side. It is another way to produce body transfer. Today i stand of the water trough and the tells me to drink up to 30watt gallons of water per day. You have been here for 200 days and reach your target weight so it is time for you to go to the slaughterhouse. I was not expecting this. The ways of sadness and horror, that hits me with the slaughterhouse the suddenness of the announcement, the feeling of being trapped, the guilt and responsibility i feel for mike cow avatar who feel me but who is younger and innocent and is a vegetarian. It is remarkably heavy for having been in this virtual life only a few minutes. Part of me that is a cow walks to the fence. Part of me that is a person is yelling. Its startling even me. This is brutal i shout at no one in particular. The simulation presses on to face my cow avatar. She gazes back at me innocently and adorable as ever. Here you wait for the slaughterhouse truck. The floor begins to vibrate, i feel a rush of real fear as the world shakes noisily around me. I skim head from side to side wondering where the truck will appear. While happen then, but it doesnt. The experiment is over. My god over. My god you guys i hear myself uttering. So after that experiment the lab went on to do things that were even more unlike the human body. You can be sympathetic toward the cow but its a mammal. The next body they put me in was cora which is really bizarre. The idea is that you are coral in an ocean that is being warmed by Carbon Dioxide emissions. You watch yourself with her and you watch the ocean die around you. At this point i was is wondering what was going on with the simulations. Why do we always watch yourself die. So they gave me when i was very sweet and i wanted to leave you on this note, although i can i wanted to see leave you on the snow because i thought it was a moment where clicks for me about how immersive these averments can be. So before i leave they put me through walmart demo to illustrate the world how easy it is to be come to adapt to the dream. Theres no expert midair just aggressive backyard of an italian village. The walls and wooden groove are done in stunning detail. With crack and smoke stains. A fire in the heart the trees sway a gentle went which is carrying dandelion fluff. Im struck by how comfortable it is to be here. I want to appear through windows, walk through open doors, expect the world to unfold endlessly in front of me. I start looking for the simulation floss. This is an real place its perhaps too pretty. Its stream rest, the bright colors reminiscent of plywood and plaints. I wish they had rendered a parking garage something with indigenous of ordinary life. Then theres a slight tug on the back of my head holding my helmet cable tries to prevent me from walking into the real world wall. Muslims think about how pleasant it would be to rome here an adventure game. Or to watch watch a dramatic story on folder just rest. I dropped out on all forced to appear at the blazer grass beneath my feet. What if they will pixelate up close but they dont. I go over to the founding gaze into the water, this is one the world one true off note hits me. I have no reflection. Sometimes the moment it breaks is the moment how tightly bound to. Because while intubating how virtual water looks real. Im so caught up in the trade that i am on my knees head down arms outstretched, looking for for myself and a fountain that is not there. Thats it. You want to see the bio hazards . This is the grossest part. So told you we went on the search for the six taste and 6 cents. Some in the step after that is to build things that interact with a magnet. Oh tell you in the book i go on a quest to figure out exactly what is happened. Peoples were that they can get some sensation through this but the question is what is this . Is it true or is it something to do with the fact that its in their hand and touching the nerves. I wont spoil it in the book. Thats last chapter. I will introduce you to the founder of the grind house. It is actually his house, the basement. When i got there they had just implanted him with the device called circadian. In real life its about the size of a deck of cards. And he does not do this himself. They have a professional do this. This is whats arcadia can do. Here is holding the charging coil up to it and youll see it blinking green three times to show that it is receiving a charge. Is powering down at this point. Enough you can hear it but was right before christmas someone was singing jingle bells. So what it did was took his temperature and relay that information to cell phone via bluetooth. Their plans to put the implant him for six months, they took it after three because the battery was expanding due to the heat of the charging coil. It was really a test, proof of concept to see if they could put something in the human body if it would develop an infection. If there be a problem like like silicone would breach, none of that happened. They had just started building a device that they called the north star. This is what it look like when i was there. The idea was to develop and enhance compass that goes on the back of your hand and it would light up when he faced north. So it would be like a de facto. That is what it look like in november 2013. This is their first manufactured mottled you can see its about the size of a quarter. The following images are courtesy of a team member. This is a final implanted version, there it is in justins hand. Hand. They put it in just before thanksgiving. This version does not have a working compass element in it. It just lights up. Kind of a proof of concept. You can see theyre working on it. Its coming along. Thats it, thats me if you want to reach me ill be happy to take questions. Thank you for being a great audience [applause]. What was most surprising thing to when you wrote the research for the book. This is a book of many surprises. Basically i was like what are all the cool things i could go see. The bio hazards are definitely surprising. The fact that we have gotten that far built this thing. They have not died yet. Its really surprising. The big thing that i did not know and was amazed to know, i did not realize that a clinical symptom of alzheimers and parkinsons. It has to do with the old factories very ancient. It essentially the centers for memory and emotion develop around it. Its a very primitive sense. The idea that you could give someone assent and recall a memory, these very sweet french ladies that i met work for cosmetic companies and military hospitals they are doing, its not a cure for alzheimers but its a shortcut around symptoms. I thought that that was cool. I know you did that existed. Any other questions. When were talking about a lot of the virtual experiments, feeling sympathy now for beef cattle, it seems like there is environmental or political to some of this. Where someone is told to like shocker prisoner prisoner i wonder if you could comment on how Virtual Reality experimentation and the ethics around politics in forming opinions based on these. So the lab at stanford very clearly says were trying to do things that ar