For as long as humans have been around, we’ve always tried to capture our memories. Back when we hunted and gathered, we painted them on cave walls. When we invented the camera, we took stilted black and white photos that made us look like we were allergic to smiling.
As technology has advanced, we’ve adapted. More compact cameras allowed us to bother our neighbors with vacation slideshows. Camcorders make home videos possible. Smartphones and the internet have opened the door for a whole range of personal videos, from Snapchat stories to vlogs on YouTube.
Now there’s VR and 360 video, which has slowly starting becoming a mainstream thing. You can find both on two of the most popular platforms on Earth, YouTube and Facebook. At the same time, both technologies are new, and we’re still figuring out how to capture our beloved memories for now and in the future.
We capture our memories so that we can attempt to remember them in the future; so we can get close to re-living them. Reminiscing over old photos, crying at old home videos and laughing our ass off at what we did last night on Snapchat. This form, this human need, to capture and attempt to relive our memories will no doubt transfer over to VR. But how?
A matter of perspective
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Source: Wareable