I enjoyed watching all of the different ways that Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to tell different stories in ways that text or typical film simply cannot do. I enjoyed the TED talk by Chris Milks and how it tracks Milk’s journey from a childhood to a pioneer in Virtual Reality (VR). Milk argues that while traditional film is a powerful medium, it is just a "collection of rectangles." He explains how the viewer is always an observer looking through a window and describes his career as a mission to break that window and put the audience inside the story. This was a good segway to the other short VR pieces like “Clouds Over Sidra” and “1,000 Cut Journey”. I was a bit confused about how VR would be able to relate to empathy, but now I definitely understand what it means. I felt very emotional watching all of the VR stories and it makes the viewer feel very present in what is going on during the VR. I feel like this is an excellent medium when trying to make meaningful advertisements or watching movies that are meant to be very emotional. For my “bring it in” I discovered a video about how the shoe brand TOMS did a virtual reality giving trip. During the video it showed how there is a VR piece where you get to feel like you have traveled to the country they are giving shoes to and handing them out to families and watching children try on their new shoes. I think that this was another very good example of how VR can instill empathy in a person and become a very thought provoking medium of technology. https://youtu.be/jz5vQs9iXCs?si=VUUwDYRaFS3BR6hj