Bruce Friend AAA 2016

Bruce B. Friend – NewMR Webinar President of Media & Entertainment, MARU/VCR&C, 2016

Bruce B. Friend MARU/VCR&C

18 August 2016

Is MR ready to “Unleash a New Reality”?


Agility, AutomaLon and AI

Agility – “always on,” plaCorm-‐based, longitudinal

AutomaLon – integrated, real-‐Hme data collecHon

ResulLng in: –  Faster analyHcs, forecasHng, predicHons –  Yielding cost and Hme efficiencies –  “Building a smarter planet”

…But this is not ArLficial Intelligence (AI) AI is machine simulaHon of human behavior


AI Sci-‐Fi Movies will soon be Science Fact!

AI will have profound implicaHons on our future

• As researchers, we need to be thinking about these implicaHons now

• Specifically, –  DisrupHon –  ExploitaHon –  Our evolving role / posiHon Here are some predicHons that will affect MR



By the late 2010s: • Glasses beam images directly onto reHna

• Ten terabytes of compuHng power cost only $1,000

• Internet of Things becomes Internet of everything (IoE)

On the Internet of Everything, Qualcomm says:

“When smart things everywhere are connected together, we will be able to do more and be more…

…enabling a ‘digital sixth sense’ ”



By the 2020s: • Nanobots will begin curing most diseases

• Normal human eaHng can be replaced by nanosystems

• Self-‐driving cars begin to take over the roads • Telescopes reveals insights into dark maber and energy

• The “Turing Test” is obsolete



By the 2030s: • Virtual reality will feel 100% real • Fossil fuels will be obsolete • Life expectancy of 150 years • Robots indisHnguishable from humans

• No need to learn a second language • Upload mind to the cloud by year 2039



By the 2040s: • Non-‐biological intelligence dwarfs biological intel • Nanotech foglets able to make food out of thin air

• Ability to create any object in physical world • Virtual telepathy is how we communicate

• “Time,” not “Money,” is the new monetary currency



By 2050: • We will mulHply our intelligence a billion-‐fold

• Humans transcend biology

• And become one with the machine!


The Usual Suspects


Were we ready for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was released 15 years ago!

• First 100% CGI-‐based, photorealisHc “human” feature film

• Remains the most expensive video game-‐inspired film to date

• It took 200 coders over 4 years to render all 141,964 frames

• Aki Ross was to be the first photo-‐realisHc CGI-‐animated actress

• Film was praised for the realism of the CGI-‐animated characters

• Debuted to mixed criHcal recepHon, only grossed $85MM

• SHll one of the ten biggest box office bombs of all Hme


And are we ready for AI? So, why did Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within fail so miserably…and what can we learn from this?

Sony Pictures spent half a million dollars on research to find out why…and here is what we learned: •  The movie “looked” amazing •  It didn’t connect emoHonally with viewers •  Actors looked, acted and sounded real, but sHll weren’t human •  Actors felt too arHficial, even creepy, for the audience to care

The moral of this story is: •  Just because technology CAN enable us to do something… •  It doesn’t mean we should do it or that it’s even the right thing to do •  And it’s sHll decades away from emulaHng or replacing us humans


AI’s Role In The EvoluLon of MR •  ConHnue to use technology to create, collect and deliver informaHon and intelligence •  But, don’t lose sight that it sHll takes human beings to understand human beings •  There will always be a “human” arHsHc, emoHonal component to generaHng insights and knowledge from data that machines simply can’t emulate…


The End


The End?


Thank You!

Bruce B. Friend [email protected]

(310) 570-‐7737


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