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Chet Faliszek
@chetfaliszek
It was so much fun making this and all the credit needs to go to the film team at Valve for conceiving how to tell the story and make the rule - if it is fake, we show it is fake... Originally, I wasn't supposed to be in it but...
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Stuart P. Bentley (@s@stuartpb.com)
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I've been thinking about writing a blog post detailing how this ad from six years ago is still at least a full decade ahead of every other commercial for VR that anyone's produced since youtube.com/watch?v=qYfNzh
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Chet Faliszek
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A very talented, personable engineer felt uncomfortable doing it - so I stepped in and fumbled my way through. We had groups come into the green screen room for 30 minutes every hour for a full day. I think everyone is in it a little except the team...
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Chet Faliszek
@chetfaliszek
so drunk you could smell the booze on them. Their energy was so so low. Some people were excited and good and some people just seeing it for the first time were stunned - people who demo VR know this magical feeling. It was a long day and I thought...
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Chet Faliszek
@chetfaliszek
We were just using clips from there and then filming them at home so I was done but ends up - I re-recorded a bunch of the lines so they were clearer (not the one on the bounds mentioned below) but eventually I forgot how to say the world "virtual" so that took a long time.. sigh
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Chet Faliszek
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I still remember the day we met - showing me your demo with the current best hardware out there and then you came over to our booth and had some pasta and we talked more and I think I instantly stole some of your phrasing and made the mental note - invite Denny to the next step.
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Calicoday
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This is really great! By far the best glimpse of VR I've seen. Really spells out the potential -- and joyful! Lovely work. And for the first time I'm keen to try it now, not just committed to tracking how it's progressing for someday. :-)
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