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Overview Institute and the Overview Experience

http://www.starportcafe.com/space-experience/the-overview-experience

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/01/31/sci-pioneer-douglas-trumbull-lives-berkshires/6CO1OFZbGudyB2VrgXf7gO/story.html

Douglas Trumbull re Immersive Cinema and the Overview Effect

DT: I’m a member of a new group called the Overview Institute... the Overview Effect is a book written by a man named Frank White, who was interviewing astronauts coming back to Earth... their minds were expanded by looking at the Earth from Space. And they said, “Woah, we’re on this planet that’s in the middle of nowhere, and it’s very precious, and it’s very beautiful – so why are we having all these wars; why do we have borders; why do we fight over everything? They just came back with this changed view of Mankind, of Earth as an issue.

And Edgar Mitchell, who was one of the Apollo astronauts, formed this thing called the Noetics Institute, and he’s on the Board of the Overview Institute. Our objective is to see if we can give people that kind of experience – a profound experience of our planet as a precious jewel, in the void – and see if that will help change people’s political views, or environmental views, or help solve global warming, or all the other things that we’re doing to basically use up this planet...

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DT: “What you see on the screen is less like a movie and more like a live event. The screen becomes a giant window onto reality.” His aim is to create a first-person experience.

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(Take James Kerwins who lectures on the science of film perception and consciousness at University of Arizona’s centre for Consciousness Studies. This is what he had to say…”Most researchers agree we perceive 40 conscious moments per second,” Kerwin said. “In other words: our eyes see more than that but we’re only aware of 40. So if a frame rate hits or exceeds 40 fps, it looks to us like reality. Whereas if it’s significantly below that, like 24 fps or even 30 fps, there’s a separation, there’s a difference — and we know immediately that what we’re watching is not real.”)

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