This evening I gave the opening talk at this year’s Hear Now<\/i> festival. I spoke about our work at NYU, ending with our forthcoming CAVE project, a narrative in shared VR which goes back 10,000 years to tell about the origin story of narrative in shared VR — Paleolithic cave paintings.<\/p>\n
Yet earlier in the day I had experienced a different kind of origin story. I was taken to the place where right here in Kansas City, in 1922, Walt Disney opened his very first production house for animation: Laugh-O-Gram Studio.<\/p>\n
Seeing this little building, the place where it all started, filled me with awe. Somehow I doubt that old Walt, or Ub Iwerks and their other colleagues, could have imagined just what sort of giant would emerge from such humble beginnings.<\/p>\n
Then again, maybe Walt knew. He seemed to have a knack for knowing where things were heading long before they got there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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