[Music]
don’t color outside the lines you have
to be tall to play basketball these toys
are for boys were taught programmed even
to accept limits to easily and even
seemingly benign ones can pave the way
for more malignant ones you’re not smart
enough your people don’t belong here be
realistic but limits are not real and
there’s a lot of ways to define limits
and that might be part of the problem
but to me it’s always been things that
hold people back things perceived as
absolutes barriers that you can’t go
across but they’re not real a speed
limit is a great example of that it’s
not an absolute limit in the sense that
if I’m going 55 miles per hour and I
push on the gas pedal BAM 56 like magic
it might be a good idea to go the speed
limit there might be consequences if I
choose to exceed the limit but it’s not
an absolute and you might say that maybe
the engine or the transmission of the
wheels can only go so fast but those are
just constraints I can put a bigger
engine in I can roll it down a hill I
can put a rocket on the car
it’s not a matter of possible or
impossible
we cage ourselves in when in reality
there’s no limits that should actually
hold us back so what does hold us back
it’s fear limits are the normalization
of the fears that hold us back it’s a
lot more obvious when it’s something
like a dictator using fear or the threat
of violence to control a population it’s
less obvious when it’s ourselves
because it builds up over time do what
you’re told
fall in line these things make us afraid
afraid of what we can do afraid of
embarrassment
what could we accomplish if we could
remove these fears but how can you
overcome something if it’s so ingrained
in our minds and our society that we
can’t recognize it I think a part of
that solution is augmented reality now
for those of you who’ve only experienced
augmented reality capturing monsters on
your phone let me tell you what it can
really do I’ve been in augmented reality
for almost 10 years now and I realized
early on that it empowered people in a
completely different way because it was
human centric you could read a book
about chemistry or you could hold it in
your hand
augmented reality can make things that
you couldn’t see before visible to you
it can share ideas in a whole new way
and those two things come together to
create a bridge between the physical
world and abstract ideas we get from the
physical world the ability to apply
pattern matching and develop an
intuition around things and solving
problems and with augmented reality we
can take those abstract ideas we can
format them for the real world and we
can take advantage of those mechanisms
so learning doesn’t have to start over
it can become knowledge transfer then
this isn’t just a crazy idea this is
things that are being used every day
around the world to solve real problems
for real workers
and in study after study ours others
independent academic studies augmented
reality has been found to transfer
knowledge better than any technology
that’s been available before now let me
tell you about one of the studies that
we did we used augmented reality in the
assembly of a gas turbine power plant
and then just one step in that assembly
required eight hours of classroom time
and 450 minutes to complete the task
and it was taught in that way so that
the workers could perform the work
without having to worry without having
to worry about making a mistake
now with augmented reality the
difference was staggering with no
classroom training and putting it to
work right away the workers got it done
in less than 50 minutes 50 minutes
so they learn faster they put it to work
faster and they told the researchers
that it made them feel safer the ability
to learn things faster to put it to work
right away and an understanding that
having knowledge when you need it
removes fear now about the same time in
my life my second son was born this is
Valentine he’s an amazing boy he’s
brilliant he’s curious he’s caring one
of the scariest things as a father was
when he was diagnosed with cerebral
palsy he was born with a condition
called spastic diplegia if you’ve ever
had a painful muscle spasm you know a
little bit about what that’s like
because every moment he was awake all of
his muscle spasm and he couldn’t send
signals from his brain to his legs in
order to control them and walk and he
couldn’t send the signals to his
diaphragm to talk his mother and I
searched for options and we were lucky
enough to be connected with a head of
pediatric neurology at one of the best
hospitals in the world and in a
15-minute appointment we were told as CP
goes it’s not that bad you should feel
lucky there’s nothing you can do he’ll
never walk one of my biggest regrets in
life he said I was so afraid when I
walked out that door I accepted that
limit for a minute and my wife my son
reminded me how wrong I was and their
limits are not real and we met dr. Park
and st. Louis Children’s Hospital and he
was performing a transformational
surgery for CP patients Valentine would
have spinal surgery they’d open up his
spinal cord and they cut the nerves that
were spastic so that the brain could
make new connections and the surgery was
a success
No
[Applause]
now Valentine’s walking if you see him
ask him about it he’ll tell you this
transformational procedure was performed
for over ten years the the best
pediatric neurologist at the best
Hospital in the world didn’t know about
a transformational surgery in their
specialty and it wasn’t their fault
they’ve dedicated their lives to helping
people they would have told us about it
if they knew the problem was that
knowledge wasn’t flowing I know how
scary that is how many people died
because the knowledge is not flowing I
made it my mission to try to make it so
nobody has to go through that and I
thought how could augment it reality
start to address this problem what would
it look like see what I found I found
that it could potentially change the
lives of billions that the surgical
industry the microcosm of surgery is a
two trillion dollar industry and it’s
available to less than one third of the
people on the planet that means there’s
five billion people that don’t have
access to it and if they need a simple
procedure like an appendectomy they die
they die now we can argue could
augmented reality make the best surgeon
better I would say yes the data clearly
says they couldn’t but we don’t have to
make that argument all we have to do is
teach new surgeons or teach new
procedures to experienced ones all we
have to do is get the knowledge flowing
in augmented reality because then we can
make a general practitioner or a good
Samaritan anywhere in the world a
surgeon when they need to be and it’s
not just about surgery it’s about
anything that you can learn have you
ever struggled to learn something new or
watched your child struggle that
struggled to learn new things is
ultimately why people stopped learning
at all I can’t learn that
I’m not smart enough for that these are
limits limits that grow to a societal
level it’s something that we can change
and there’s one more story I’m gonna
tell about a project that gives me more
hope that augmented reality can play a
part of that than anything I’ve seen
last year I met James Robinson the head
of the development division for the
Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians he
told me about his tribe of over 10,000
people and that even though that there
were jobs available on tribal lands and
in neighboring communities they couldn’t
access those jobs because they don’t
have the skills this is what augmented
reality does best knowledge transfer
skilling up workers to take on new
responsibilities James also told me that
even though they had one of the best
tribal high schools in North America
they didn’t yet teach programming but he
wanted his people to learn how to
program the augmented reality to if they
were gonna make content to teach their
workers new things they wanted to be
able to share it with any of the other
tribes that wanted to teach their
workers and new things and so this is
Coby and Coby are never programmed
before but that’s James learning how to
assemble an electrical circuit with
augmented reality that Coby made a work
instruction that trains electrical
technicians how to assemble circuits and
how to understand how they work all over
the course of a week now this is early
days this is just first steps but if a
community can take charge and control
what they’re able to do that’s a world
that I want to live in if you can put on
a pair of glasses or a helmet and know
how to do any job learn any skill you
can start to think differently about
fear and limits and with a tool like
augmented reality we can all start to
ask ourselves a question
is this a real limit should this hold me
back because the only limitations that
can hold us back are the ones that we
accept thank you
[Applause]
don’t color outside the lines you have
to be tall to play basketball these toys
are for boys were taught programmed even
to accept limits to easily and even
seemingly benign ones can pave the way
for more malignant ones you’re not smart
enough your people don’t belong here be
realistic but limits are not real and
there’s a lot of ways to define limits
and that might be part of the problem
but to me it’s always been things that
hold people back things perceived as
absolutes barriers that you can’t go
across but they’re not real a speed
limit is a great example of that it’s
not an absolute limit in the sense that
if I’m going 55 miles per hour and I
push on the gas pedal BAM 56 like magic
it might be a good idea to go the speed
limit there might be consequences if I
choose to exceed the limit but it’s not
an absolute and you might say that maybe
the engine or the transmission of the
wheels can only go so fast but those are
just constraints I can put a bigger
engine in I can roll it down a hill I
can put a rocket on the car
it’s not a matter of possible or
impossible
we cage ourselves in when in reality
there’s no limits that should actually
hold us back so what does hold us back
it’s fear limits are the normalization
of the fears that hold us back it’s a
lot more obvious when it’s something
like a dictator using fear or the threat
of violence to control a population it’s
less obvious when it’s ourselves
because it builds up over time do what
you’re told
fall in line these things make us afraid
afraid of what we can do afraid of
embarrassment
what could we accomplish if we could
remove these fears but how can you
overcome something if it’s so ingrained
in our minds and our society that we
can’t recognize it I think a part of
that solution is augmented reality now
for those of you who’ve only experienced
augmented reality capturing monsters on
your phone let me tell you what it can
really do I’ve been in augmented reality
for almost 10 years now and I realized
early on that it empowered people in a
completely different way because it was
human centric you could read a book
about chemistry or you could hold it in
your hand
augmented reality can make things that
you couldn’t see before visible to you
it can share ideas in a whole new way
and those two things come together to
create a bridge between the physical
world and abstract ideas we get from the
physical world the ability to apply
pattern matching and develop an
intuition around things and solving
problems and with augmented reality we
can take those abstract ideas we can
format them for the real world and we
can take advantage of those mechanisms
so learning doesn’t have to start over
it can become knowledge transfer then
this isn’t just a crazy idea this is
things that are being used every day
around the world to solve real problems
for real workers
and in study after study ours others
independent academic studies augmented
reality has been found to transfer
knowledge better than any technology
that’s been available before now let me
tell you about one of the studies that
we did we used augmented reality in the
assembly of a gas turbine power plant
and then just one step in that assembly
required eight hours of classroom time
and 450 minutes to complete the task
and it was taught in that way so that
the workers could perform the work
without having to worry without having
to worry about making a mistake
now with augmented reality the
difference was staggering with no
classroom training and putting it to
work right away the workers got it done
in less than 50 minutes 50 minutes
so they learn faster they put it to work
faster and they told the researchers
that it made them feel safer the ability
to learn things faster to put it to work
right away and an understanding that
having knowledge when you need it
removes fear now about the same time in
my life my second son was born this is
Valentine he’s an amazing boy he’s
brilliant he’s curious he’s caring one
of the scariest things as a father was
when he was diagnosed with cerebral
palsy he was born with a condition
called spastic diplegia if you’ve ever
had a painful muscle spasm you know a
little bit about what that’s like
because every moment he was awake all of
his muscle spasm and he couldn’t send
signals from his brain to his legs in
order to control them and walk and he
couldn’t send the signals to his
diaphragm to talk his mother and I
searched for options and we were lucky
enough to be connected with a head of
pediatric neurology at one of the best
hospitals in the world and in a
15-minute appointment we were told as CP
goes it’s not that bad you should feel
lucky there’s nothing you can do he’ll
never walk one of my biggest regrets in
life he said I was so afraid when I
walked out that door I accepted that
limit for a minute and my wife my son
reminded me how wrong I was and their
limits are not real and we met dr. Park
and st. Louis Children’s Hospital and he
was performing a transformational
surgery for CP patients Valentine would
have spinal surgery they’d open up his
spinal cord and they cut the nerves that
were spastic so that the brain could
make new connections and the surgery was
a success
No
[Applause]
now Valentine’s walking if you see him
ask him about it he’ll tell you this
transformational procedure was performed
for over ten years the the best
pediatric neurologist at the best
Hospital in the world didn’t know about
a transformational surgery in their
specialty and it wasn’t their fault
they’ve dedicated their lives to helping
people they would have told us about it
if they knew the problem was that
knowledge wasn’t flowing I know how
scary that is how many people died
because the knowledge is not flowing I
made it my mission to try to make it so
nobody has to go through that and I
thought how could augment it reality
start to address this problem what would
it look like see what I found I found
that it could potentially change the
lives of billions that the surgical
industry the microcosm of surgery is a
two trillion dollar industry and it’s
available to less than one third of the
people on the planet that means there’s
five billion people that don’t have
access to it and if they need a simple
procedure like an appendectomy they die
they die now we can argue could
augmented reality make the best surgeon
better I would say yes the data clearly
says they couldn’t but we don’t have to
make that argument all we have to do is
teach new surgeons or teach new
procedures to experienced ones all we
have to do is get the knowledge flowing
in augmented reality because then we can
make a general practitioner or a good
Samaritan anywhere in the world a
surgeon when they need to be and it’s
not just about surgery it’s about
anything that you can learn have you
ever struggled to learn something new or
watched your child struggle that
struggled to learn new things is
ultimately why people stopped learning
at all I can’t learn that
I’m not smart enough for that these are
limits limits that grow to a societal
level it’s something that we can change
and there’s one more story I’m gonna
tell about a project that gives me more
hope that augmented reality can play a
part of that than anything I’ve seen
last year I met James Robinson the head
of the development division for the
Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians he
told me about his tribe of over 10,000
people and that even though that there
were jobs available on tribal lands and
in neighboring communities they couldn’t
access those jobs because they don’t
have the skills this is what augmented
reality does best knowledge transfer
skilling up workers to take on new
responsibilities James also told me that
even though they had one of the best
tribal high schools in North America
they didn’t yet teach programming but he
wanted his people to learn how to
program the augmented reality to if they
were gonna make content to teach their
workers new things they wanted to be
able to share it with any of the other
tribes that wanted to teach their
workers and new things and so this is
Coby and Coby are never programmed
before but that’s James learning how to
assemble an electrical circuit with
augmented reality that Coby made a work
instruction that trains electrical
technicians how to assemble circuits and
how to understand how they work all over
the course of a week now this is early
days this is just first steps but if a
community can take charge and control
what they’re able to do that’s a world
that I want to live in if you can put on
a pair of glasses or a helmet and know
how to do any job learn any skill you
can start to think differently about
fear and limits and with a tool like
augmented reality we can all start to
ask ourselves a question
is this a real limit should this hold me
back because the only limitations that
can hold us back are the ones that we
accept thank you
[Applause]
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