Manhattan and White Plains Researchers Refute Free Will on Live MNN Call-In Show

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

The two independent researchers, who go by the stage names ?The Messenger? and ?The Truth Machine,? are premiering the show on MNN?s Lifestyle Channel 2, (TWC 56, RCN 83, FiOS 34) this Wednesday, January 18, at 11pm EST. The producer, who wants to simply be known as ?The Messenger,? and his co-host, George Ortega, will take calls from Manhattan?s cable TV viewers, and from viewers across the world, as the show streams live over the Internet.?

The word is finally out that free will is a myth. New Scientist magazine?s April 16, 2011 cover story was titled ?Free Will; The Illusion We Can?t Live Without.? The British science weekly followed up on May 14, 2011 with a special report by deputy editor, Graham Lawton, titled ?The Grand Delusion.? Lawton writes, ?We all have a sense of agency -- the conviction that even though we did one thing, we could have done another, and that at any given moment we have free choice of any number of actions. Yet, it seems that this is an elaborate illusion created by your brain. The conclusion is inescapable. We really are deluded."

The Messenger, a lifelong Manhattan resident, is author of the book Enlightenment Through Entitlement. Ortega, from White Plains, New York, produces and hosts the cable and Internet television show ?Exploring the Illusion of Free Will.? His recently published book by the same name is comprised of edited transcripts of the first eighteen episodes of the show.

Decades ago, creationism gave way to the scientific truth of evolution. Today, the false belief that we human beings have a free will is giving way to the astonishing scientific truth that our human will is actually causal, and unconscious. The Messenger and Ortega have clearly been destined to bring this truth about the nature of human will to the public spotlight. Viewers who tune in and call up can discover for themselves how fate decides our every thought, feeling, and action. Myth Free Will airs every Wednesday at 11pm, EST.

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Live Stream Today: Actor Liam Neeson and Director Joe Carnahan Talk Surviving the Alaskan Wilderness and Upcoming Thriller ?The Grey? With New York Times?s TimesTalks

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

WHAT: Award-winning actor Liam Neeson and director/writer Joe Carnahan sit down with New York Times columnist David Carr in an exclusive TimesTalks interview to give a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming action thriller ?The Grey,? opening January 27th. The live stream of the interview will be available tonight only on FORA.tv, and viewers will have the chance to submit real-time questions to Neeson and Carnahan.

WHEN: Today, Tuesday, January 17th, at 7:00 pm EST

WHERE: Online at FORA.tv. Viewers can purchase the live stream of the interview for $ 0.99. Purchasers will have the opportunity to submit a question for Neeson and Carnahan to be asked during the live interview. Purchasers will also be able to watch the video on-demand for 30 days following the interview.

Neeson and Carnahan first collaborated together on the 2010 action film ?The A-Team.? The upcoming thriller ?The Grey? finds the duo tackling extreme conditions as an Alaskan oil-drilling team struggles to survive weather and wolves following a plane crash.

TimesTalks is The New York Times's premier event program featuring intimate discussions with Times journalists and some of today's top talents and thinkers from the fields of film, theater, television, art, politics and more.

ABOUT FORA.TV

FORA.tv is the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events. With more than 10,000 free and fee-based videos and its iPad "Conference Channel" app, FORA.tv has the web's largest collection of programs that feature the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. FORA.tv helps hundreds of organizations including the Aspen Institute, the Economist, the New York Public Library, and Wired expand the audience for their events. FORA.tv has been named a Top 50 Web Site by TIME, and a Top Education Site by The Telegraph. FORA.tv is funded by a select group of investors led by William R. Hearst III and is based in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://fora.tv or find us on Twitter.

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?Live Park,? World?s First 4D Avatar Theme Park, Success in Korea

(PRWEB) January 25, 2012

The future of theme parks is here today: 4D avatar technology previously only imagined in movies becomes reality, as new media entertainment company d'strict present the ?Live Park 4D World Tour? at the KINTEX in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. d'strict CEO Choi Eun-seok says, ??Live Park? is d?strict?s grand challenge for the world?s entertainment market.?

4D Avatar Theme Park a Reality Now

The age of the passive theme park attraction has gone. Today two year olds play Xbox games; the silver generation own i-pads and consumers of all ages expect the latest interactive technology across all areas of entertainment. The ?Live Park?4D is a new genre of theme park that pushes the limits of future entertainment.

?Live Park? enables visitors to experience a virtual world previously only seen in movies like ?Minority Report? and ?Avatar.? Mixed reality architecture allows the visitor to create an avatar and become the main character in a unique adventure. With interactive game elements as well as installation art, the visitor creates their own story in augmented reality.

The 10,000 square meter space represents an investment of $ 13 million over 2 years and can accommodate up to 3,000 visitors at any one time or 10,000 visitors a day. Open to the public since December 2011, the ?Live Park 4D World Tour? has been such a success that d?strict plan to extend the Season 1 Tour at KINTEX.

The ?Live Park?

?Live Park? is composed of 65 attractions over 7 thematic stages and uses state of the art 3D video, holograms and augmented reality technology to create a seamless story. Visitors and their avatars move through the theme park?s stages interacting with the attractions using RFID wristbands and kinect sensors to recognize their gestures, voices and faces. Highlights include:

????The ?Ender Mirror?- visitors create their own look-alike avatar and take photos by laughing at a mirror loaded with a ?smile engine.?

?????Live360?- the world?s biggest interactive 360 degree stereoscopic theatre. Shouting and running together alongside their avatars, visitors can directly experience a realistic video game with multiple story endings in a huge space.

?????Live Square? - allows visitors to enjoy the world?s most advanced avatar game in the world?s largest interactive projection square stretching over 150 meters.

?????Live Holo? - holograms created by a collaboration between d?strict and domestic and overseas artists including David Garrett, Boxer Rebellion and 2NE1.

?????Syno Star Performance? - visitors perform with their avatars in augmented reality on the hologram stage.

?????Mega Live Event? - ?Live Park? is transformed into an evening entertainment venue providing unconventional performances, events and exhibitions in co-operation with top Rave DJs, artists, clubs, brands and fashion magazines.

The Future

d?strict are looking to expand overseas by licensing ?Live Park? to potential partners, and already have plans to create permanent facilities for ?Live Park? in China and Singapore. In addition, the company has been selected as a preferred bidder for a $ 1 billion multi-purpose theme park resort due to open in 2015 within the Asian region.

Bryan Lee, Live Park North America General Manager says, ?d?strict is under MOU with a Hollywood entertainment powerhouse and their global IP to develop a themed entertainment destination in Las Vegas and L.A. area. An official announcement is expected in March in L.A regarding the US license.? He continues, ?Last year James Cameron announced plans for an ?Avatar? themed land at Disney?s Animal Kingdom to begin construction in 2013. With ?Live Park?, d?strict have created a 4D avatar theme park that?s here today! ?

About d?strict:

Founded in 2000, d?strict has become one of the world?s leading 4D creative companies. Based in New York and Seoul, d'strict has been creating revolutionary, award winning UX products and solutions by bringing together next generation technologies such as gesture and sound sensing, motion capture and vision processing, as well as multi-touch interfaces with future display, R&D outputs including 3D holographic movies, stereoscopic 3D motion video, architectural display and dome displays.

d?strict is the sole distributer, developer, producer, and presenter of the ?Live Park? global service, a game changing theme park and entertainment platform in which visitors can physically participate and interact with various 4D adventure platforms.

Contact Point:

Business Inquiry

Bryan Lee bryan.lee(at)dstrict(dot)com

PR Inquiry

Andrew Kim pr(at)dstrict(dot)com

Website: http://www.thelivepark.com

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