These Sleepless Nights, an XR Experience on Magic Leap One, Premieres at Venice Film Festival

Question

There his studio won an emmy for the VR narrative, Henry. His new company, Fable, recently won another for Wolves in the Walls, based on Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children's book, and AI featuring an AI powered virtual being named Lucy. A user experiences These Sleepless Nights at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Saatchi lives in San Francisco in the Bay Area, where over 35,000 people are homeless, Artifical Intelligence (www.solitaryai.art) making it the third largest homeless population in the country, following New York and South Florida. 70% of these homeless people are unsheltered and living on the streets. Saatchi decided to commission a new XR experience, These Sleepless Nights, and to create The Next Amendment, in order to raise a million dollars to fund policy research projects and housing efforts related to "the right to shelter," and "housing first." Directed by Gabo Arora, These Sleepless Nights premieres today at the Venice Film Festival. Saatchi has been very inspired by the Housing First movement.

A good example project that Saatchi wants to raise money for is Oakland’s Tuff Shed project which houses homeless people in "community cabins." Instead of the dangers on the street, homeless people are given a baseline stability of a small insulated cabin where they can store their belongings, sleep, and come and go as they please. In total these are small communities of up to 50 people; with 2 meals a day, showers and electricity. Since beginning the project, Oakland is investing millions more as it sees good signs in transition from homelessness. The Next Amendment commissioned Gabo Arora (The Last Goodbye) to create These Sleepless Nights. By interviewing people at all sides of the eviction process - movers, judges, the evicted - the piece dramatically illustrates the nature of the homeless problem and its possible solutions. These Sleepless Nights is based on Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Evicted, one President Obama and Bill Gates’ top books of 2017. The XR experience is a mixed reality documentary that uses a Magic Leap AR HMD to allow visitors to listen, connect and Artifical Intelligence engage in new ways with those on the frontline of America’s complex homeless crisis. Composer Philip Glass contributed a haunting score. Following its debut in Venice, These Sleepless Nights will be adapted into a location-based smartphone AR experience which anyone can experience using an iPhone, first in San Francisco and Artifical Intelligence then Washington, DC. The app will allow people to view the piece and immediately donate to right to shelter projects. Users' hands within the experience help them navigate through the story. "Housing first and a right to shelter just means lifting the lowest level to which we can fall - and it is achievable. The most important element is (through trials in small cities and towns, through policy papers on how this could be done cost effectively, through fundraising) to build confidence that a solution is possible" says Saatchi. Po st has  been g᠎ener᠎ated by G SA C᠎on​te nt G᠎en er at​or DEMO !

Nicotine dependence occurs when you need nicotine and can't stop using it. Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that makes it hard to quit. Nicotine produces pleasing effects in your brain, but these effects are temporary. So you reach for another cigarette. The more you smoke, the more nicotine you need to feel good. When you try to stop, you experience unpleasant mental and physical changes. These are symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Regardless of how long you've smoked, stopping can improve your health. It isn't easy but you can break your dependence on nicotine. Many effective treatments are available. Ask your doctor for help. For some people, using any amount of tobacco can quickly lead to nicotine dependence. You can't stop smoking. You've made one or more serious, but unsuccessful, attempts to stop. You have withdrawal symptoms when you try to stop. Your attempts at stopping have caused physical and mood-related symptoms, such as strong cravings, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, depressed mood, frustration, anger, increased hunger, insomnia, constipation or Artifical Intelligence diarrhea. Th is c ontent was written by GSA Conte᠎nt ᠎Generato​r DE MO.

You keep smoking despite health problems. Even though you've developed health problems with your lungs or your heart, you haven't been able to stop. You give up social activities. You may stop going to smoke-free restaurants or stop socializing with family or friends because you can't smoke in these situations. You're not alone if you've tried to stop smoking but haven't been able to stop for good. Most smokers make many attempts to stop smoking before they achieve stable, long-term abstinence from smoking. You're more likely to stop for good if you follow a treatment plan that addresses both the physical and the behavioral aspects of nicotine dependence. Using medications and working with a counselor specially trained to help people stop smoking (a tobacco treatment specialist) will significantly boost your chances of success. Ask your health care team to help you develop a treatment plan that works for you or to advise you on where to get help to stop smoking.