The Future of News? Virtual Reality | Nonny de la Peña | TED Talks

libtards live in their own reality anyway, they will love this new propaganda opportunity

That's Gina from the "Jane the Virgin"!

How about just bringing back real, in depth and un-biased journalism not covering up incompetence with another layer of technology.

They really need to get some 3D artists in there and clean up those mid 2000's models/textures. I love the concept, but this is embarrassing.

Anybody nose where this chick works? I mean, just a beak idea? Schnozing? Alright.

Propaganda is not journalism. Your trying to influence people for a political reason that is not journalism.

I think this is a great idea but fear that it can easily be used as propaganda. This should be used but only if there is video solid evidence or video of the recreated event. I find the first and last ones to be a good example of how this can be seen as propaganda, as we do not know 100% what happen those days, however I do not care that did make it as long as they disclaim this is a reenactment base only eyewitness accounts and some other evidence. The 2nd video is the best example of how this can be use good. They have video evidence and recordings however still then it can be potentially faked. However there is always potential that things be faked and I do not think is a good argument against using this. This is new and can go in a lot of way and I am interested in how this turns out in the future. I think this will make it mainstream only if you can get people to trust that the reenactments happen and that they do not inflate or deflate the message.

You boys surely like to complain

Really? Another tech enabling media to tab into even more raw emotional mass hysteria. Perspective, proportion, independent thinking, and fact are nearly obsolete as it is.

Travon Martin was guilty. Maybe considering that in the making process of this VR Could have a small effect in the integrity of the work.

Technology doesn't make better news honest and unbiased people make better news.

We need some tools to improve empathy!!!!!!!!!!

Can you really trust the" journalistic best practices" of a one sided, biased media which cares more about furthering its agenda than being accurate? My thought is, "Oh boy, now they can make their ½ truths seem even more real and they will be so much better at controlling the masses with dramatic pieces that make you feel like you were at an event that never even happened." This will do nothing but make the mainstream media's lies more believable unfortunately.

this will only give more ways to pollute the real news.

VR is going to be used in gaming way before news. The gaming industry has the money to develop these programs and hardware while the news industry don't have either the talents or the money. These bombs scenes and violent scenes will be in pretty much every game which will make the news stories less dramatic.

I don't think this should be considered journalism if it's an immersive recreation. If you can find a way to immerse people in content captured by photojournalists then that's fine, but it seems fundamentally deceptive because you're saying "This is what it's like to really be there" when so much creative liberty has to be taken.

This looks like a great tool for helping PTSD & Phobias.

uhhmmmm.....

I can't wait for VR, next year will be amazing.

why not just take a 360 degree camera, your limited to how the camera man is moving but at least you have good quality

Great concept poor execution if all you're going to be is bias and un-journalistic.
Gross. Another layer of falsehood.

this dude

For me, journalism is truth. But what is the truth?

This is awesome. Using technology, Nonny de la Pena and her team creates an impressive virtual reality scene to place the viewers in the middle action. Gone are the days, where we consumed news through Idiot boxes (both Radio and TV). It's the age of intelligence. I hope all over the world, the media will take this idea seriously and come out with compelling stories.

We have become so desensitized to news headlines. This approach offers new perspective!

I can´t help myself, but she seems to me like some Disney villain that wants to somehow scam me :D

Oh god imagine adds in that system...

this was truly amazing, to see how technology can be used in every aspect of our lives. As long as it used correctly and not as a tool of propaganda

If this is combined with recent camera technology such as the globe-looking 360*2 thingy seen in recent articles (google it if you care), millions of people could attend newsworthy scenarios as they happen, in the virtual realm. Imagine what emphatic emotions such news castings would communicate. I sure hope this gets used to erradicate corruption, by eliminating middle hands in the whisper-game state of current journalism.

we are near the time when God will get his revenge on the heathens who use their privelidge to exploit others

nobody will escape from God

this does seem trivial in the face of the incompetent state of journalism in the modern era.

Low blood sugar doesn't cause seizures and I've never seen a seizure that looked like that. They are just making things up to illicit the response they want.

Not surprised, even in VR nobody helps, just looks as he's seizuring.

This is really good and will have a big impact in the world. Its best to work with gaming companies who already have the technology to improve the graphics to make it even more realistic.

To those who express concern over media bias, propaganda and deceit: I hear you on that. That will remain a problem with something like this to the same extent that it is today, perhaps even with deeper consequences. However, I feel it is important to recognise that this is not a problem with media or journalism itself. It is a problem with the existing market conditions in which the media and journalism currently operates. Privatised and politically charged from the top down. It's systemic, not individually applicable to each journalist. The only way to fix that is to separate journalism from the profit motive. To separate news reporting from the interests of those the news relate. Put plainly, to disallow companies like News Corporation from even existing to begin with. They are an unnecessary relic of a pre-internet age, and do not belong.

Great now we can truly be there for those throwing babies out of incubators, gulf of tonkin and SAA using sarin gas incidents!

As a journalist I find this disturbing. The only way to 'accurately' represent a scenario is to record events as they happen, and then play them back. Any element of 'reconstruction' by someone, journalist or no, involves an element of narration and projection that is extremely subjective. --- In other words, this isn't journalism, it's art.

At least make those graphics believable..

My fear is: It can be use to make me fell emphaty, but can make me fell emphaty by a lie, or put emotions where the reason is more needed...

Sure. News. But this isn't journalism.

This is kind of already dated. I tried some VR back in April that was captured using real 360• cameras and 3D mics- one was downhill skiing and the other was white water rafting. Eventually scene reconstruction won't be necessary.

you miss Venezuela Nonny, don´t have to go far away, just around the corner.

VR as a technology is truly innovative. However this intersection of VR and Journalism as it is envisaged in this talk this is seriously unsettling, infused with the the notion that somehow journalistic accuracy and depth can be attained by extending VR into the practice of journalism. This is why it is potentially extremely dangerous as vehicle than can, and I suspect will, be used as a blatant technology for spreading misleading and outright false news.

I am absolutely in favor of digital technology changing and morphing our professional domains and fields of practice. However this example a clear and blatant attempt at producing a machine of outright manipulation and lies and feeding them to the public in a compelling audio-visual format.

How will it be possible to discern the real from the virtual once this technology is perfected?

Well, nice job. Solving the wrong problem with journalism.

First I'd like to begin this ice - breaker with a thumbs down, not because of your looks but. It is one thing to try and make of living for yourself to support yourself and others. However this is what we do and if we have the gift and talent to go beyond our normal jobs in the 'real world' then who are you people to tell us differently if we can't. When you as an individual make the decision to abstract a human beings life and private conversations with self- you live with that? But it does not give concrete evidence to the new world in which you have created around you that you are, (anything). Especially not implying the relation to a self defining your perpetration as skill or acquired success for them to be jealous of- and this is coming from the one you stealing from with...... talent. Who wants theft money but one who requires a panderer. Girl.. you go Head!

I do understand what she wants to do but this just looks like a game... I don't really know if this is a good way to make people "feel something"...

I'm 5 years late, but I think this is important if we had more of this available. In Journalism there's a chart that shows where the main news outlets fall on Fact/Opinion, Liberal/Conservative, and how much opinion they include day to day. Seeing these stories on a screen, a 2D plane, you can only sympathize but so much, but bringing it into VR and tying it as close as possible to the scene how it was when such and such event happened, makes you feel what happened, in the moment. With this technology, I can see this building bridges and hopefully it molds our future into growth. :)