Movies referred to in 10/15/10 lecture

Blade Runner - Esper Photo Analysis scene

 

Post modern idea of entering the space of a photo

The Last Starfighter Trailer

Arcade gamer is so good he gets recruited to fight real space battle

TRON trailer

Programmer has to steal his data back from big firm that stole it from him, from inside his own code

 

Youtube - Strange Days trailer 

 

Recorded experiences as out-of-control commercial media

 

Youtube - The Matrix Trailer

 

The world is a simulation

 

Youtube - Quatermass & The Pit - 1967

 

Brain and dream recording devices

 

Youtube - Prof. Steve Mann - 'shooting back' 

 

Privacy activist and wearable computer pioneer turning the tables on

retail security surviellance

 

YouTube - The Lawnmower Man trailer

Virtual Reality as amplifier of intelligence and agent of posession

YouTube - Brainstorm - The Freaky Part

Recording memories and playing them back for personal understanding

YouTube - Johnny Mnemonic trailer

Courier of the future on the run for what is in his head

YouTube - Terminator view

 

From the future cyborg assassin uses Augmented Reality to navigate the world of today 

YouTube - RetroCast - Steve Mann 2004

More on the genius of Prof. Steve Mann

YouTube - Augmented Reality by Hitlab

AR - the new games development

YouTube - Layar, worlds first mobile Augmented Reality browser

 

AR in the service of PR and advertising - on your smartphone 

YouTube - Parrot AR.Drone : Augmented Reality Video Games Demo (HD version)

model helicopter uses AR to fuse real camera with computer images

YouTube - Brainstorm - The Ugly Part

 

Military sabotage as payback for hijacking research 

YouTube - opening scene of DREAMSCAPE

 

Dream penetration thriller film 30 years before inception 

YouTube - eXistenZ (1999) - Trailer

Sponsored partly by Sega, this film warns of dangers of confusing videogames with reality

YouTube - eXistenZ trailer

Sponsored partly by Sega, this film warns of dangers of confusing videogames with reality

YouTube - The Wizard movie trailer

YouTube - I love the Power Glove... its so bad.

 

Early 80s feature film is one big commercial for NES console and Mario games

 

Youtube - Inception Trailer
Dreams can be influenced, just like viral advertising