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hey it's Josh Flagg are from Android 30 what's going on everybody and us here at Android Authority the four of us that are here are having a great time here in Austin Texas for South by Southwest but of course we are here to talk about virtual reality and VR and they have a great number of panels and also demos here at Austin Texas for the ability to not only talk about VR but also experienced it but a number of the panels that we did go to today we're all about how to create stories with virtual reality and the one that I went to in particular is called using virtual reality to create compassion now there's no doubt that virtual reality is essentially a way for you to step into a moment in time and be able to experience everything about it there's sound through an immersive look around the area in a 360 view using 360 video or a photo of course and what they're talking about in this particular panel which was head by Natalie ebel who was a director of marketing for pencils of promise cliff Palmer who's the president of John studios will have links for all these people at the in the description below but also GABA Aurora who is a filmmaker for the UN and this was a very interesting panel because Gobbo in particular was showing and sort of explaining a couple of main examples of how virtual reality was used in order to create sort of a public mindset about various issues that are happening in the world right now now what you saw there was a quick clip that he showed just sort of showing what it's like from the filmmakers perspective of actually putting all of these VR cameras out there and also getting a small glimpse into what it's like to traverse that area and what kind of what the people were like at in Syria there was a sense of reality motivate people to do things not just escaped a problem now there's times where it's hopefully we've had a lot of conversations and folks just wellness they might just be going through you know whether it's cancer treatment or something that involve every King Jessee but uh no para columns it just escaped for the moment but I think as it's encouraged do especially young people it's all things that were doing get out there not just but the other example and this was one that really spoke to the idea of creating compassion was a VR presentation that delved into the problems and the somewhat torturous conditions of solitary confinement in prisons and jails wrongfully convicted present early years and Marjorie which is been a solitary confinement at the NPC says you know these next moment to take off the headset and these next moment you get to take our heads I'd return to your daily life but for over eighty thousand American that's not the case sighing ACL u--'s petition to ban youth solitary confinement and every single person did it everyone took off their outside so it's easy to think of virtual reality headsets and experiences as new ways of experiencing content and we usually think about that from the entertainment sense we have live music venues that show it they have tourists applications then we have gaming of course and also movies of course so these are all different ways of viewing the same platform but really vr can also be a way for us to educate the people and this was a panel that was very much about that not only educating people about certain causes and issues but also to have them experience what it is that they might actually be fighting for or fighting against and I think that's a really profound way of looking at virtual reality outside of the scope of let's say what you guys might view VR as at the moment and I think it's those extra mile and those extra applications of virtual reality that are going to become more and more prevalent and also more important as it's as its lifespan continues as Darcy says in another video about his panel that he what he reacted to here at andrew authority vr is still in its infancy but it's already an incredibly powerful tool and an incredibly powerful platform and we only have to just think of it in a number of different ways in a number of different applications in order to make it better than what it is right now and if we're going to be able to change the world via VR I think that that's a pretty interesting and also very let's say a profound way of looking at what might be the next big thing in technology so keep it into android authority for even more about virtual reality here at South by Southwest in Austin Texas android authority of courses here taking a look at vr which is the next platform of content creation and content consumption so we wanted to get our feet wet and actually see virtual reality for all it can be here in austin texas keep it tuned here for even more for that and everything else from our colleagues and android and you can always subscribe to a channel here and also drop us some legs on these videos because we love to see those thumbs up we hope you guys are enjoying our coverage of 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