A.R. Rahman, Shekhar Kapur Talk Metaverse, VR and AI Collaboration at Goa Festival - Variety

Machines tin ne'er regenerate quality creativity and exertion should beryllium successful mankind’s work were the biggest takeaways from a heavyweight sheet looking to the aboriginal of contented astatine the International Film Festival of India, Goa, connected Sunday.

The sheet was devised and led by eminent filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Red Sea Film Festival opener “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”). Participants included Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” composer A.R. Rahman, Ronald Menzel, co-founder and main strategy serviceman astatine Dreamscape Immersive, with tech maven Pranav Mistry, who was formerly CEO and president of Samsung Technology and Advanced Research, joining via video link.

The panelists discussed the conception of the metaverse, which is inactive successful is nascency. Mistry envisaged a aboriginal powered by VR, AR and AI wherever the assemblage participated successful an MCU movie and solved satellite problems. Rahman spoke astir the process of creating his VR task “Le Musk” that premiered astatine Cannes earlier this twelvemonth and is present touring the world.

When asked by Kapur if helium could ever beryllium replaced by AI, Rahman said that helium is himself a merchandise of an improvement implicit respective chiseled vocation phases; from the aboriginal 1990s, to the years aft winning the Oscar, to the contiguous day. “I americium the AI,” Rahman said, successful a notation to the technology’s evolutionary learning capabilities.

“What VR is doing is taking maine connected a travel extracurricular myself. When I watched a movie similar ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ I watched it 18 times – it’s truthful beautiful,” said Kapur. “Because each clip I americium successful a antithetic signifier of my beingness and each clip it is taking maine connected a travel determination else. So large movies, large compositions that we perceive again and again, are doing thing to america that is much than conscionable listening to music. It is taking america connected what we telephone a wholly virtual journey. And often what exertion is trying to bash is to make a virtual travel to regenerate our senses.”

Menzel said that exertion should not beryllium utilized to regenerate creativity. “Let’s usage exertion to bash things that we cannot bash successful the existent world,” Menzel said. “We person exertion that allows america to recognize what our encephalon is doing successful existent time. The movies we’re going to ticker are going to beryllium evolving, depending connected your existent absorption and authorities of mind. And possibly you are besides portion of the instauration of the movie you are watching.”

Addressing the contented of the antagonistic effects of technology, Rahman said, “The instauration has to beryllium precise beardown – the instauration of culture, the instauration of quality rights, wherever children and women are not exploited. That’s wherefore we each indispensable emergence up arsenic creators and not fto idiosyncratic other bash it – that’s the crushed I jumped into virtual reality.”