Can Virtual Reality Change Your Mind? | Thong Nguyen | TEDxMinneapolis
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- In this talk, Thong shares insights on how VR experiences are impacting training and development, health care, and even our own self perception. Virtual reality even has the capacity to create empathy and strengthen how we understand ourselves - and each other. Thong Nguyen is an entrepreneur who is using virtual reality to help people experience, test and learn from the future. His company, Roomera, works with innovative business leaders to apply VR within the enterprise to accelerate prototyping and research, enhance learning, and aid in sales development. Before Roomera, Thong spent 15 years in the corporate sector in roles ranging from analyst to VP and CTO. Featured as a 2017 Minnesota Business young entrepreneur, Thong has a profound fascination with exploring the nuances of human behavior, and is interested in technology that creates empathy and strengthens how we understand ourselves and each other. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
*_T-posing to show the power of VR is CLEARLY the best marketing tactic_*
A power move for sure
VR is the future, so glad to be a part of it.
Me too brother! Really enjoy your vids :)
@@controllerbrain Cheers buddy.
Paradise Decay wow I JUST saw you on Marc’s livestream
AR is future not VR
VR is cool. but IRL is the future... i hope..
that being said i do have vr and enjoy it. its especially great for racing games and sim rigs. dirt rally vr is fantastic.
The power of the mind and the ability to train it is powerful. Using VR can increase our potential if used correctly.
Yeah, you can become an x-men or a dragon
Right on Casey. “Correctly” being a very important factor that the industry is still working on figuring out.
Casey Moran hnjnjjnjkiuj
I hate to be pessimistic but is that what you want, when a computer has the ability to create consciousness, where do we draw the line for a synthetic creation or a human, the difference between real life and and a simulation. Our senses are what create the world around us, if Vr can manipulate the inputs to these senses, there is nothing stopping it.where is the meaning of life ?
it will never be used correctly just as our world leaders love to kill us with anything they can
This video makes me view the future a little bit brighter, empathy by changing perspectives through VR sounds like a wonderful possibility
Tylly B anything is possible through tposing
Just what I though. Understanding each other by walking their shoes can really make us better for each other. And we really need it now days.
Virtual Reality is the future of not only gaming, but alot of aspects of our lifestyle-- If they do it right in the future, it might be as revelutionary as the cellphone.
I think its gonna be even more revolutionary than the cellphone.
@@21EC than the "internet"
Its going to change literally everything...
@@21EC Pretty much. When you have a pair of sunglasses that does both AR and VR, you have the perfect device. It would let you replace all other devices, simulate all screens in the world, let you connect with anyone and visit any place in the world as if you were there and most importantly to me would let you do anything you want while being anyone you want in limitless virtual space.
@@darthbuzzer781 Right, the future of VR/AR/MR is so bright unless they stop developing it for some reason but if all goes well then we should only see it growing larger and it will obviously keep getting better and better.
21EC what if VR combined with the computing power of a cellphone+AI+quantum computing 💥
I don't think people realize how effective VR is for exercise. I can burn a ton of calories and not even notice until I'm done playing. Games like Beat Saber, Creed and Sprint Vector are very fun to play and between the 3, you work out about every muscle. It would also be great for keeping the elderly in shape. There are many options of difficulty for anyone no matter what kind of shape they are in.
My first session of Beat Saber. 4h trying to get to the top 500. 3 days of sore muscles. (Placed 399 finally)
Yesterday i stood up for almost 4 hours cuz of how fun i think vr is ;)
@@barthez_ You will get better and better over the next month or two and once you get to expert or expert + mode, that's when it really gets fun. I can't play on any other difficulty now.
Looking back, I watched in amazement when people would play on expert mode. I think everyone gets that good eventually. I rarely ever place below 300 unless it's a really popular map.
I've been playing Beat Saber about 4 times a week now for about a year. It never gets old to me. With the 'Beat Saver' mod (if you're using PC) there are hundreds of great maps that rival the vanilla maps.
@@scantlander I've been already playing a lot of maps on expert, also with that mod. But Expert+ is for inhumans 😂
@@barthez_ I agree. I like a few of them that are sorta of in between expert and expert + but it's not that fun swinging your arms like a madman for 3 minutes straight. I need that dancing flow to make it fun.
I see T pose
I click.
I se a guy named Thong and i click
@m ・ ́ω・ T pose = TED pose
Why??
@m ・ ́ω・ iconic
I walk around and run around doing that on the daily. Is it not normal?
Hands down one of the most impressive, insightful and well-curated TED talks I’ve ever seen 🙌
Who just loves TEDx
Sam hyde was the best speaker
It's getting clear to me this is the way to go in many many fields, like architecture, so I'm focusing on that.
Iv just gotten VR and i played a 'game' called 'the key'. It was deeply impactful, surprised me with the ending. Im still thinking about it 3 days later. I do not wish to give spoilers because i do not wish to ruin the impact for anyone. I whole-heartedly recommend it, however, from the art to the narrative, it was AMAZING! Gave me a taste for how VR can be used for positive action and raising awareness.
Fascinating presentation.
streaming classes can get so boring; imagine the new learning experience using VR...Excellent!!!
That was a really good presentation! He has awesome speaking and teaching skills. As a teacher, I am persuaded to use these realities more somehow in my classroom. 💗
Wonderful talk. I wholeheartedly loved Thong Nguyen's pace and insightful ideas.
Fantastic presentation. Very smart human this one.
Thank you, It is amazing to see the VR in a different angle. good job
I'll never forget the first time I played a VR cooperative game and as far as I was concerned my friend was standing right there in front of me.
Awesome talk! Especially the examples of changing perspective that lasts with VR experiences (body dysmorphia and psychological shifts)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. So much more to come.
Firstly, I love the way that you speak! Your ability to remove filler words from your speech helps with the viewer look at you being more natural. Your insights into how Virtual Reality can be used in industries more expansive than games and experiments. I liked the research you showed from Stanford showing that VR can help increase memory retention and reaction time. I never thought about the application of using VR in helping people understand racism, body image and most impressively how you can give your self advice. Something that should be looked into within New Zealand with our high suicide numbers.
What is this obsession with older men and criticizing "filler words". I was critiqued to the point of bullying by an older man while giving a talk nervously. Filler words are not inherently bad and if anything can be more natural as it shows that the speaker is reformulating for the audience? Also you truly have never thought of VR for empathy (for others and the self) and understanding bias? That's most of Jeremy Bailenson's work (Stanford Lab).
They have been doing research in this for over 10 years. It took this guy to tell you?
@@JasmineRoberts - I don't think he meant any harm to you or anyone else. With regard to the body of research, there's been (and continues to be) critical work and thought leadership that hasn't reached a majority of the non-academic or non-engineering population - and the point here was to share enough of that to spark curiosity and excitement for a very broad audience to learn more.
On a different note, you are exploring some amazing topics. Enjoyed your ARIA talk this year.
@@ThongNguyen-qe7jp Your talk was excellent. There are many older individuals in the space that (in my opinion) bully the younger individuals. It is very hard for millennials to grow in the space--we are bring blocked. When the dusts settles this will not happen but people are fighting for money and visibility. I think it is more disheartening that empathy and bias wasn't considered from the get go from the commenter. I am glad you relayed it to other individuals who may not have thought of this use case.
love the idea of using this these tools in clinical practice....being able to support patients change mindsets has extremely powerful and exciting implications ....mental illness 1 in 5 is probably an underestimation ...with VR tools we can start treating people far easier with CBT etc....face your fears is so much more comfortable, with a headset in a safe room than stepping into a space full of real spiders or snakes....wonderful talk...thanks Thong !
Happy you found it interesting! Lots of continued work needed in this area - additional research + awareness needed to move it beyond a "magic elixir" and supportable by more real world data as well as clinical studies.
VR expands upon the power of perspective. It lets the user experience things in different ways. I'm looking forward to playing VR games that support a 3rd person mode, because apparently it's really trippy. I especially want to try setting up a 360 camera in my room and looking through it as I do things (e.g. working out, drawing, moving around).
This is the future and there were so many possibilities to uncover through this. Wow this sounds exciting
I am obsessed with my Vive, especially with games like VRchat.. It gives a whole new way to play games.. We still got a ways to go, but the potential goes through the roof.
Currently reading Jaron Lanier's book "Dawn of the New Everything" where he talks about his life and how he came to found the first VR startup in 84, VPL Research. I love how Thong Nguyen here really conveys the possibilities of VR in this talk.
Giffy Thank you for the kind words! Love Jaron’s work - it has been an inspiration to many. Check out the books from Jeremy Bailenson and Peter Rubin as well. Good stuff.
With satisfying three out of humans five senses it is totally possible to trick your brain with seeing, hearing and feeling. I've tried enough VR experiences to understand it will change the future forever.
Stop!!!!....
Great presentation! Love his sense of humor
I love this just goes to show VR can be used for things other than gaming.
Theres so many ways this technology can improve our lives people just dont understand it .
VR is the best. ECHO VR Forever!
Wow! What a presentation. And to think this was as in 2018. I wonder how far VR has gone now.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Yes !! VR can't only be for playing shooting/killing, horror and driving games. There is much more to it. It can help for meditation, subconscious reprogramming. That is why I'm getting a headset.
Now That's what I call a technological breakthrough.
Do not forget the emotion. It is a responsible balance of accepting and feeling the emotion while accepting it in that realm.
What are your thoughts regarding how one is able to forget an emotion. Do you perceive emotions to exist as an emergent property of our individual and collective observations of memories?
What are your thoughts on the possible effects on the accuracy of perception, per se, if one has not genuinely consciously differentiated the mind observing from the mind perceiving?
From my perspective, that which becomes observed can not have yet become accurately and authentically consciously perceived before being able to genuinely differentiate the two. In my experience, observation generally occurs when something is sensed. When one hears music, vibration has become sensed, observed, perceived, and experienced (nearly simultaneously, it seems, until you authentically observe inwardly during authentic introspection_.
Profound epiphany can emerge when one becomes able to consciously differentiate in the self these two unique actions: observe and perceive. The conscious ability to accurately differentiate them within one's mind, is not common. In fact, when one believes that one can and does genuinely differentiate them already, and doesn't yet realize that emotions are not the emergent property of remembering one's accurately-perceived memories indicates that does not differentiate them accurately within the self.
One must also observe how perceive is authentically different from exist.
A product of emerging into conscious awareness within a fear-based conscious reality paradigm. (Fear-based reality paradigms result when collective consciousness develops maladaptive trauma responses.)
An awesome topic upon which to dialogue, indeed.
Viva la Evolution
Go with love
I was at a bar in Tokyo the other day in VR.. and just sat there and imagined if I were there ... I imagined the local club scene environment and tried to merge them with what I was viewing to get a better feel of what was happening inside this Tokyo club.... it was cool to see people do the same thing we do differently.
Wonderful TED-Talk
Can't wait for the haptic and thermal feedback gloves they are working on,also the 360° treadmill . I can't wait to disappear altogether from the physical world and make a living in vr
Coward.
i would too. but the things IRL i need to escape are knee and shoulder injuries and constant pain. so vr doesnt really help with that. i get a very painful knee after a few minutes in vr...:( all i do to escape reality is sleep every chance i get. escape the pain. escape the knoweledge. escape consciousness... i eat work and sleep. sleep is the only reprieve. it sucks. oh well. maybe some day they will invent a way to plug directly into your brain and bypass/intercept physical movements and turn them into virtual movements... i always thought that kind of tech was pathetic and mankinds destruction. cowardly. but now im not so sure. i might use it and never come out. i used to be so active. every day. its what i lived for. now i dont have that i am empty. yeah, sorry for this comment. harshing the vibes,lol
@@wotever99ninynine im really sorry to hear that, don't worry im sure the nervous system hijacking is right around the corner. Might even be able to upload ourselfs into an artificial super intelligence or some crazy quantum computer. If you've seen Altered carbon on Netflix, Sword Art Online or the film Trancendance that will open up some cool thought pathways for you. I sleep my pains away too, just in a different way (physical pain too tho btw)
@@wotever99ninynine there are some leading theories that us biological humans are the last step in evolution, like a caterpillar in its cocoon Getting ready to hatch into something purely machine, either we will choose to join the collective of people who have already uploaded themselves,or be assimilated. Some people might decide to merge into a higher intelligence, until we are all just one collective. I highly recommend checking out exurb1a and kurkuzasgt (bad spelling,youtube will know what you're after.
@@jacobmortimore thanks man, sorry for laying that all on you. yeah ive seen altered carbon that was pretty cool, the pink backpack was pretty funny :)
Increíble. No puedo esperar para un VR de cirugía practicando y aprendiendo idiomas estar disponible😍😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️Me encanta ciencia y tecnología😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I think this guy was pretty great
I played vr for quite a bit without a break for about 3 days in a row, and for about a week afterwords, every time I would look at my hands, it would feel weird to see them move without me thinking about pressing a button to make them. It was as if my brain was still stuck in vr, and really got me thinking about how easily we could trick our minds into thinking that we're in areal like when we're only in a video game.
This technology gives me the idea that we can use it syimulate the brain of old people who have been paralysed. In my own thinking, if the paralysed person can be put in a VR environment and a memory of him doing what he loves best or trying to stimulate him to carry out and activity, may force the brain to start to try activate those parts of the brain which could not function as a result of the paralysis. So it just going to be like tricking the body into doing what ithas already thought or believed it could not do...
Am a Computer Science Researcher in the Field of Machine Learning from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria and i will love to see this my idea tested on those people, thank you.
This ted talk alone changed my brain
Everything comes down to what you believe, and VR helps to shape that belief.
This video makes me love VR even more!
Watchin this 2 years later (2021) and FB went all in with VR changing itself to “Meta” and in the making of what I understand as part of the Metaverse…
Virtual reality will change the neurons in our brains and change how we look at reality.
How so ? Can you ellaborate?
@@Jess-ne6fw It's basically visual meditation.
UNLEASHING POTENTIAL - PSYCHOLOGY VIDEOS that would b sick
Agreed! I feel like reality is worse than anything in VR after I tried it for the first time.
@UNLEASHING POTENTIAL - dude, you're in every MMA video, and now here.
It will alienate vision impaired people even further.
what a presentation! 👏👏👏
VR is the future, change my mind!
His line at the end really hits hard
If anyone is wondering that game is Richie's Plank Experience game. Got some friends to try it and they got scared shitless playing the game. Great talk!
Its amazing how easily the mind adapts to VR in knowing it is not a danger anymore. I can walk off the plank without any issues where at first I was scarred to take one step lol
@@Atman_Rez Absolutely the same with me!
I know so well it's not real that I don't get scared.
I work with this man. Mind-blowing
Definitely interesting. Visualization is the old school method, this is probably visually more effective. Emotionwise I’m not so sure. Probably in the future
It's nice to see how the progress of VR from around the 80's and 90's to what we have today. Still waiting for the implentation on Taste, Smell to be implemented. It's just a matter of time. Would however not be to nice for an implementation in FPS games with all the blood and gore. I figure some would throw up at that point, and perhaps useful for others. Question is how real do we want VR to feel.
You have my respect!
3:44 Knees weak, arms are heavy, there's mother on his sweater already
😂😂😂
VR is going to be the most powerful tool to harness the law of attraction
Could not agree more.
It is like a visual meditation. I like practicing those. Very powerful stuff.
Amazing presentation Thong. Your avatar was out of control and stubborn! Pretty cool though that live demo
Thanks for the kind words, Etienne. We had the feeling that something would go wrong with the gloves, but didnt expect the tracker to shut down altogether! Live and learn, right? :-)
@@roomera couldnt you have restarted the tracker? i only have wmr, but wouldnt it just be like turning the controllers off and on to fix it? oh well, cool show.
wotever99ninynine Hamilton try doing a live tech demo in front of a large audience some time :-)
@@roomera haha, no way i hate crowds and i aint got the smarts - there was a question mark at the end of my comment for a reason.. i.e i didnt now the answer. you did very well.
Please. More about technologies & future scenaries
Wooooooooo
That's so awesome!
VR is same as hallucination or madness. Our minds create our reality. We are our brains.
The hand tracking on the quest has gotten pretty good. Playing poker with people is hilarious
Great presentation Thong!
Thank you! :-)
Amazing technology. In healthcare it can be compared to full self driving cars in transportation.
Yeah! This is the future!
Well done
Well see more and more with( the view )project through successfactory soon
Great going ♥️🌹
VR certainly is amazing and powerful.
Sadly for large masses of humanity it will mostly be another addiction.
My thoughts exactly. I wish he'd also mention all the bad sides to it so that we can get the full picture of VR.
@@izabelakozlowska
Would you care to share some ideas of what you think some bad affects could be ?
People read these comments and hopefully come across this one to spark more balanced view of this fast approaching technology. ☺
@@bellezavudd VR is a powerful tool however it can have a negative impact on our health. Sometimes nausea occurs while using it, which is called 'Cybersickness'. It can also cause dizziness and disorientation. It's not recommendable for people with epileptic conditions. We should remember to take breaks from using a headset. It's not a secret that VR can be addictive, especially when used for gaming. Also, when used for too long VR headset can cause eye soreness.
L0ckd0wn and everything is only leading to this; VR
0:38 "looks can be deceiving" Lb my queen
We live in a great time
I'm so excited to see how VR integrates in society, as @caseyMoran said if used correctly the possibilities are boundless.
"Interrogate"
- ask questions of (someone) closely, aggressively, or formally.
Think you were looking for the word "Integrate"
Your right@@Ozzianman LMAO. I'm not even sure how I missed that, thank you !
Getting nitpicky now, but it's you're. But it's ok to make mistakes once in a while.
Hope to see VR soon under Cognitive-Behavioral treatments, it is much needed in the prevention of recidivism
This is in my city!!! shoutout to Minneapolis!
Thanks for showing the footage from Richie's Plank Experience!
Our pleasure. Thanks for making such a great experience! Love the thoughtfulness that has been put into it.
@@roomera I was enjoying the video and was like "HANG ON, THAT'S OUR TRAILER!" very nice surprise.
@@ToastInteractive Hah! You guys did such a great job of capturing the visceral-ness. Kudos to your team!
I have actually written a paper about the same or at least very similar Topic : The effect of VR on the Psyche
and came up with almost the same results of testing (example rubber hand effect, Perception Change etc.), but the resolve of the thesis was much darker.
If we continue our future with VR we will have to be aware like with all media and new technology. We need to set boundries and define ratings so that people dont get
a heartattack or a trauma wich is both quite possible under the right/ wrong circumstences.
BUT BEFORE ALL THAT: We need muuuuch more longtermstudies with divers Groups of Testers and different testing thesis. For example between the long term use of VR and Symptoms similar to those of Body Integrity Disorder
If you are open to it, we would love to read your paper!
I would love to read your paper as well. Is it uploaded online?
Unfortunately it is in german but i am currently translating it for a friend could link the translatet version here if i am finished
@@durkr.7794 I'd love to read your paper as well.
11:38 You could easily imagine the opposite - a game where you play as a hero whose body type would cause you to loathe your own. As social media has shown us, being optimistic about new technology is easy, but making sure it has a positive impact in the real world is difficult.
The presentation reminded me Steven Spielberg's film "Ready Player One". The VR technology in mainstream is mostly developed by gaming industry, but as it was emphasized in the presentation, it has much more potential in almost any other field. At the moment, however, this technology lacks more credibility and accessibility. Credibility can be fixed by achieving photorealistic graphics, better physics mechanics and more detailed design. Accessibility, on the other hand, can be achieved by artificial intelligence, which will allow implementation of ideas without special knowledge and time expense. I am excited for PS5 and their next generation VR technology.
This is pretty cool actually.
New research says it might interfere with visual memory. The ways in which it can be used meaningfully is huge. It should be available for people only above a certain age, and those who have employment. People below that age could be given learning permits.
Well, I would definitely want to regulate it in the long term.
Very cool!
The better response time from using VR headset compared to regular monitors might have something to do with the fact that the display in a VR headset updates faster compared to a regular 60hz monitor. 50% faster actually.
I would love it if i could try out a job placement and it's requirements before I start. Hand on training
i think that this is really cool! But some people can mistake the virtual reality with real life.
When does full dive vr come TED?
Basically he helps to speed up the rate at which validated learning is achived
Can wait for the fully immersive VR that sends signals to our brain like in The Matrix or SAO
What is SAO?
@@insentivepsicologiapositiv9721 Sword Art Online.Amazing anime
@@insentivepsicologiapositiv9721 you don't know SAO,? you should to watch it, it is a Japanese animation that deals with a world in which people can immerse themselves in a virtual world thanks to a helmet designed by a company, you body is paralyzed and you are lying, it's such as a dream,some of you senses are activated, sorry for my approximative language, I am not english
@@akashr5665 only a few seasons are good tho
Already there !
That self counseling App seems interesting. Does somebody know the name of the App?
THE T POSE IN THE THUMBNAIL OML
Awesome
he’s asserting superiority in the thumbnail
As soon as Thong Put the VR Headset on, it was like his Avatar started to control him
What equipment were you using?
amazing
Incidentally, Crysis 3 actually comes with a built in Stereoscopic mode aka VR style 3D.
Imaging experiencing the power of the Nanosuit first hand in VR.
Maximum Power.
Maximum Armour.
Cloak Engaged.
Very interesting 🤨
12 year old kids looking at thumbnail:
T-POSE
But you noticed and commented on it....
TPose is much older than that
KingFish stop exposing me
Wait, is the T pose a "thing", like a trend? When I think of T-posing, I think of 3D modelling.
@@fireaza same
VR = Another reality + this reality. Only a handful of people who will not get addicted to total freedom to work anywhere, be anywhere and be with anyone you want. Full immersion is long ways ahead though.
bravo!!
We went from living outside , to living in our phones, soon we will be living in a virtual world.