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- Meet Yourself is an
extended reality experience

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and installation where you
get to stand face-to-face

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with a life-size 3D
holographic avatar of yourself.

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(futuristic synth music)

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I think Meet Yourself
is incredibly important

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because right now we are experiencing

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so many new technologies
that are incredibly powerful.

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The future we are heading towards,

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it requires us to really think about

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some of the big questions
around who are you

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and meeting yourself is a
good first confrontation

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and kickstarter into thinking about this.

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So first, you are 3D scanned

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and then you put on the hololens

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and then you get to stand
face-to-face with yourself.

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So it's really a way of using technology

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to create a distance to
your usual perspective

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because what I realized,
that a lot of people,

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they have a negative self-perception

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and it can be incredibly hard to change.

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So what I realized was that actually

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when people meet themselves,

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quite a few, they're positively surprised

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and they look at
themselves and they're like

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oh I'm not that ugly or I'm not that bad.

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It's not everybody that has this response

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but it just told me that
perhaps you could use technology

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to hack the way we think about ourselves.

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So that's where the journey stated.

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I think for a long time,

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technology has really
been, it's almost been God

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and it's been sort of like
allowed to do anything

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and what's happened
the last one, two years

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is that we've started to question

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how we are going to use technology

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and I think we've been
treating ourselves as robots,

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where we're all like computers,

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thinking that we could
just constantly upgrade us,

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but I think we've just lost,

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it sounds really cheesy,
this, but the human touch

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and all these other paths
which makes us humans.

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I guess what really engaged
me in stepping into this field

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of working with Meet
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was very much the fact that
what we can do with technology

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and new technologies,
it's so sophisticated.

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This the brain, this is our mind,

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and this is where it
can become really scary

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if we don't think really hard.

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So I think that's really
what motivated me the most

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is that it has massive potential

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and we can do incredible things

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but we also have to make sure

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that we are doing it for the right reasons

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and not just for money

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but maybe for something which
is a bit more collective

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and for the greater good

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and for actually mentally growing,

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instead of just regressing,

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because, yeah, it's not a one way street,

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but I feel that it's been for too long.