介绍： What’s your name? My name is Pin Haas Goethe. Imagine that you’re going to be able to sit down and talk with a holocaust survivor about their life and ask them questions just like you might do in the present in future. This is what the project dimensions and testimony allows users to do to explore history i...

介绍： What’s your name? My name is Pin Haas Goethe. Imagine that you’re going to be able to sit down and talk with a holocaust survivor about their life and ask them questions just like you might do in the present in future. This is what the project dimensions and testimony allows users to do to explore history in a real and personal way. “Do you hate the perpetrators?” “I don’t hate those perpetrators.” To make this possible, it starts with a recorded interview with a survivor. “So each interview we’ve done ranges from 12 hours to almost 30 hours, which means that we come out of each interview with over a thousand unique questions answered. Once we have all the questions in the database, we use voice recognition software, a little bit like you would use Siri iPhone. The speech is converted into text. It then searches the database to say, in my database of answers do I have something that matches the query that’s being asked? And then responds as if it’s answering the question, but what you see is a video. The video of the interviewees is filmed in a unique way. We don’t just film one camera angle them straight on.”
We film a 360 degrees multiple different camera angles. So a 3D model can be created in the future when technology advances to one day allow users to be able to walk around a 3D video footage of the survivor. Are you a hopeful person? For now, this experience has been installed in several Holocaust Museums in the United States.
So far, twenty people have participated in this project. 19 are holocaust survivors. There is also one participant who survived the Nanjing Massacre in China in the 1930s. Survivors will also be interviewed in their native language as the project expands.