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Breaking Free from Reality | Krupalu Mehta | TEDxPodarInternationalSchool


when I was 16 I dream of becoming an
artist I had a profound interest in
archaeology but you know when it came to
choosing a career option any other 90s
on Kate I was just given two options
either to become a doctor or become an
engineer and voila Here I am a computer
engineer regardless of my choice with my
career I still have that archaeologist
alive in me I keep reading books
articles and watch videos on YouTube
about the great inventions and
discoveries our ancestors made in the
past eras so one day while going through
YouTube I found a video by mr. Praveen
Mohan from phenomenal travel videos the
video was about the 12th century whole
installation a temple in Karnataka
what’s astonishing about this temple is
its pristine and precise architecture
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how beautiful the temple is just look at
the fine polish on the pillars do you
think it’s done by hands it’s impossible
that humans at that time could have done
this kind of polishing by just using
hammers Spears and polishing stones in
the same video mr. Mohan questions that
the ancient builders at that time have
machines what kind of technology they
might have used to create such marvelous
in the same video mr. moon also points
an astonishing fact just have a look at
the next play this is a late machine a
lathe machine is used in modern day
technology we invented this just you
know not even a century oh look at these
tools this is how we get the perfect
fine oldest finish on the monuments that
we create the devices that we create use
tools like these now have a look at this
picture these are not just dancing
figures we have seen this figures in
most of the Hindu Jain and put this
temples and some of the other way
these figures symbolize something you
see those tools are right in the hands
of those figures they were the builders
they were the architects right on the
temple itself would you believe it
this forces us to think that what what
kind of technology they might have found
this forces us to think they they have
the same technology that we have today
this forces us to think that what what
was the reason behind carving this on
the temple walls that they want to
convey of complex technology to the
future generations all I can say is vini
couldn’t respect a lot but that’s not my
point my point is that whenever mankind
needed the most mankind
made amazing inventions technological
inventions to bypass its own biological
limitations that is probably the
definition of technology shannon Kelly
is a founder of
the Whole Earth Catalog review this is a
sequel of the Whole Earth Catalog have
you heard of this famous dialogue from
one of the greatest acknowledges in our
era
stay hungry stay foolish it was by Steve
Jobs and on the dozers and in the Whole
Earth Catalog the same thing was then
forwarded to the whole earth review it
was the only magazine available in the
70s and 80s they did not have internet
at that time that’s what the only source
of its technological knowledge so Kevin
Kelley is what was one of the part of
the technological review and he went on
to found a magazine called Wired
magazine if you are reading technology
he says you know what while my scene is
a great example of bypassing the
biological limitations is a person in
our era for passed away recently I have
immense respect for his mr. Stephen
William hockey Stephen Hawking was
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diagnosed with motor neuron disease at
the age of 21 he was told that he will
be living just two years after that this
man sat on a wheelchair for five decades
sitting on a wheelchair here they find
the way the world perceives space and
time today you won’t believe this man
even fulfil the stream of floating in
zero gravity that’s like an astronaut
Stephen Hawking was such an amazing
inspiration an example of path bypassing
the biological limitations and all this
was possible only because of continuous
technological evolution with the utopian
perception towards technology moving
ahead there’s one technology that
the front-runner in these days and you
can call it extended reality the world
today calls it extended reality it’s
basically the technology which is
enabling people to bypass the biological
limitations extended reality is an
umbrella term for everything that is
virtual reality augmented reality or
mixed reality for those who are not so
tech savvy or I just tell you what
virtual reality is virtual reality is
basically diving into a completely
different environment all in all you see
a different environment and you’re
diving into a different reality
augmented reality is something that you
see these days and I’m very familiar
with this Pokemon go and snapchat
filters goes love it
so augmented reality is inspiring mixed
reality and mixed reality is nothing but
variable augmented reality and the
example devices are microsoft’s hololens
and the magically you will see the whole
events in a short while
live on myself now let’s have a look at
what we’ve done to realize our idea of
bypassing biological limitations or
breaking free from the reality the
indian space research organization has
its own experience center known as the
Vikram Sarabhai Space exhibition in M
gamma as much like NASA as John F
Kennedy Space Center in Orlando just
think as a kid when you want to go on a
field trip to such locations do such
exhibitions you would expect a lot of
sci-fi things to happen to yourselves
but you’re not and so do the children in
Gujrat work from vernacular and
municipalities schools what we did for
them along with Indian Space Research
Organisation 0 is set up an experience
for the kids
it’s a journey that takes the cake right
from house
rocket is launched to gliding through
the stars in our own solar system to
visualizing the moon impact probe
mission on the moon surface itself led
by our own expressed in the image of the
Kalam and also landing on the surface of
Mars and seeing how the surfaces we are
so satisfied that this kind of
experience that this kind of project
that you know the reason is the DC about
200 to 250 to 300 students experiencing
this magical journey every day that is a
number that nobody in India touches and
it’s a free of cost service it’s a
research project that we did with this
room we did not stop here we went into
more serious applications we made up
research projects and after months of
research what we came up with is an idea
so you can turn any satellite image into
a 3d surface where you can land it in
the 3d surface and visualize collaborate
and analyze that surface the scientists
today in space application center that
is ro the collaborate the verb to be a
headset go to the 3d surface and unlike
the surface of Mars and moon from the
data that they have captured the
satellite images that they’ve captured
from the mammalian and Chandra and
machines this would not have been
possible without with any other
technology we have done a lot of
research and then we have also come up
with Google Earth sort of application
this is our these are the real
screenshots from the application you
know you can you can literally go on top
of the Everest this is real data
generated from the satellite images and
you can teleport you can see the
controller which you can hold in your
hand when you fire India
have a looked at the identity at
maturity this is what the experiences
you have done other projects imagine
this with other colleges in which when
you where we are you are in front of a
large audience and you start speaking to
get rid of Balasa phobia or public
speaking fear and you get a score at the
end this tells you have you performed on
this project where we take the brain
waves if you read the word muse there on
the headband we take the brain waves or
EEG waves to see how relaxed you are how
concentrated you are to change the
virtual environment accordingly but
there is a problem like many other
people in the industry I was skeptical
about the distorted vision of exile in
the future like many other early
learners of the technology I do was
scared about the dystopian effects this
technology could have on humanity but my
perception changed when I met a futurist
and a great artist known as Monika been
skyping
this is a woman who designs urban plans
for governments and other organizations
from or inspired from sci-fi cinematic
universe she has worked on movies like
the Minority Report this is one of her
books the Minority Report in 2002 was
the movie where all our photographic
dreams began which led to the
inspiration of creating an experience
like Iron Man like Jarvis right from
Iron Man 2008 to 2018 the whole Marvel
Cinematic Universe he Avengers and we
have a dream of having a holographic
user interface for all the technology
that the use getting rid of phones
getting rid of the screens what we come
up to here is a movie now which release
this year
is very clear one it’s a Steven
Spielberg movie I was a fan when I read
the 2011 bestseller by the same name
authored by Ernest Cline the movie is
set in 2045 the world in 2045 is facing
numerous catastrophes draughts we have
had three more World Wars people are
starving but at the same time people are
living in a virtual universe inside we
are to get to get away or escape from
the harsh reality this is something like
Facebook okay
but everything is 3d just that you can’t
eat food or go to toilet let’s say the
Future shown here in this movie is very
very harsh it’s this dokyun and then
they argue with Monika above this movie
I realized that we need to visualize the
future of Technology
you know utopian way rather than a
dystopian day Monica gave a solution
that to get away or create a solution
for all these problems the story to find
virtual reality a shared reality have a
more collaborative approach to
technology a more rhythmic approach to
technology follow the technologies and
also we need to understand that every
technology needs to become more
compelling rather than a gimmick to turn
out into a revolution we realize this
idea with one of the best projects that
we have done with one of the best design
schools in India because the Industrial
Design Center and IIT Bombay we use the
microsoft’s hololens let me show you how
the vorlons works trust me I feel like
I’m Tony Stark okay
so what I see is what you see here split
up but
can you see an astronaut forwarding with
you or maybe I’ll just pay something for
you guys who loves dogs
oh my god this burger is too big
this is anybody likes I’m a Jane this is
too big all right what I’m gonna do is
I’m gonna get this work on the stage
itself and see if I can you know sorry
and see if you know what are the
ingredients like there is an onion there
is a capsicum
she leaves and it looks like a hamburger
patty but oh wow my gosh
that’s not nice which so that’s pretty
much how it works I just let the water
well guys the idea is to collaborate
with these devices to people can wear
that device they are present at two
different geographical locations and
collaborate or one design imagine two
chefs one from Mumbai and from one from
the US combining a recipe that’s more
like what they can work together than 3d
imagine this for architects for
automobile engineers this is what is
possible and you can do operations like
these to move to rotate to scale across
let me show you our actual footage of
that project that we have done the
dieting you can see the avatar the
person the video was shot in Mumbai then
the person was in Bangalore and it would
be you know the person could be any when
the voice because it connects over
thinking this is the actor actual
footage there is an gentleman we are not
waiting for the future we are in the
future we are breaking free from the reality thank you so much
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