All Light, Everywhere

I am an actor who will give

voice to the hole at the center of this film.

Because every film is, in part,

an autobiography.

Because every image has a frame.

And every frame excludes a world beyond its edges.

And yet,

when we understand something,

we still say,

"I see".

- Okay. - Alright, still rolling.

Moving into the experiment phase.

- Alright, rolling cameras. - Rolling.

Alright, let's roll sound. Roll camera.

What's your role?

I want to get this out of the frame.

Rolling, rolling.

Alright, and action.

Okay, hi everyone!

Thank you for coming to participate

in our research study.

- Hi. - Hi.

We're a neuroscience research company,

and we're interested primarily in how people

respond to media content.

Okay,

I'm going to get you set up

with these instruments.

We have a bunch of different instruments

that we use to measure those responses.

As you watch the content,

there are sensors...

so whether it's exciting or amusing...

any of that response,

we'll be able to pick up with these sensors.

On the side... same here.

You continue pushing them back.

- Are they sitting okay? - Yeah, yeah.

- How does the headset... - Perfect.

- Perfect? - Yeah, yeah.

Headset feels good?

Feels great.

Ah wonderful,

and if you can just face me briefly.

Is that comfortable?

Okay, great.

So, we're going to do some calibration exercises.

If you can, just, close your eyes.

Open your eyes.

Close your eyes.

Open your eyes.

Close your eyes.

Keep them closed.

Keep them closed.

Relax.

Keep them closed.

Open your eyes.

Here we go.

Oh, okay, do you want me to stop here?

Maybe like stop right here, and say, "Hey, like, welcome,"

Oh, you wanna do the welcome there, okay.

Can you actually step further back?

So like, basically, there's not as much sun.

Okay, that's good, like...

How's about... Okay, you tell me.

Yeah, so maybe, like come up, like, right here,

- It'll open right here, right? - Yep.

Okay, great. Like, if it opens right here

'cause you're in the shadow,

and we can just keep the exposure

the same right here?

Sure.

And then you go, and then turn.

You do the eye scan, and we follow you from there.

You got it.

Come on in.

Thank you. You have been identified.

Welcome to Axon Headquarters and Manufacturing.

Today we're going to take a look at some of our amazing

Axon and Taser products.

And we're going to take a quick tour of our building.

Hi.

This is the IT area for the entire company.

More conference rooms.

Over here, we've got the accounting side

and the financial side for the office.

So each

area has its own designated department.

As you can see here, we're on one of our first catwalks.

We try to do this, like Star Wars, like Star Trek.

Give this a real high-tech feel.

If you look around here,

there are no secrets here.

I mean, look at, the entire C Suite is open.

I can look right down on what the C Suite's doing.

You know what's going on.

And so transparency

is really good for another thing called candor.

We expect candor here at this building with positive intent.

And when you know what's going on,

It just feels really good when you get that candor 'cause

you do assume the positive intent,

and it makes the company better.

We work our way up to the third floor.

And before we do that, I want to flash over here.

There's a Black Box.

That's what we call it.

And the Black Box is a colloquial term

for R&D, the Research and Development.

They are in a Black Box, because we don't want them

showing their wares, or what they're working on.

So we want them to stay kind of hidden.

At the same time, they're looking at us

and with, sort of like a car with a tinted window,

they can see us, but really can't see...

them too well.

That really gives that

feel of they're working on something really unique,

powerful, and

not to be showed to the public just yet.

That's the Black Box.

And everybody says they work in a "black box",

but we put them in a real Black Box.

And that's pretty cool, I think.

1874.

The world prepares for

the astronomical event of the century:

the Transit of Venus.

A few times every century,

the orbit of Venus crosses the face of the Sun.

By measuring the time it takes for Venus to make this journey,

astronomers can establish the distance

the planet has traveled.

By comparing transit times from different vantage points,

the distance between the Earth and the Sun

can be calculated through triangulation.

This process is called the solar parallax,

and these calculations are still foundational

for both astronomical maps of the universe

and navigational maps here on Earth.

Any measurement is only as accurate

as the measuring instrument.

Prior to 1874,

astronomers had to rely

on highly trained specialists for their observations.

These specialists activated a timekeeping device

once the Transit began

and stopped the device to mark its end.

But every observer had different reflexes,

resulting in different times,

and thus different calculations.

Another obstacle stood in the way

of accurate observation.

As Venus approached the border of the Sun,

the planet appeared to liquify,

a phenomenon caused by distortions

in the planet's atmosphere

as well as the lens of the telescope.

Astronomers called this phenomenon

the Black Drop effect.

The act of observation obscures the observation.

Where the world meets the image of the world,

the image falls apart.

To scientists,

the Transit provided a unique opportunity

for technology to overcome the limitations

of the imperfect human observer.

But not everyone was convinced of their success.

The philosopher Henri Bergson,

writing on the Transit,

said that any attempt to record a true measurement

was doomed to failure.

Venus, as it appeared to the scientist,

did not reflect the true nature of Venus,

but merely the limitations of human observation.

He writes:

There is no form,

since form is immobile and reality is movement.

What is real is the continual change of form:

form is only a snapshot view of transition.

We'll talk at the break...

- Thank you so much. - You got it.

- Alright, good morning. - Good morning, sir.

Look at all these... I see a lot of familiar faces.

It's exciting.

Especially this little guy over here.

Um, I'm Sergeant Robert Corso.

I do the body camera training, um...

Before we get going today, it's, uh...

a special day. We've got, obviously, a couple cameras

besides the body-worn cameras in the room.

So we're gonna go over three different things

when we talk about the body-worn cameras today.

The first block

is going to be about

the actual operation of the camera.

How this thing functions,

how it works, how you'll use it.

The next thing we're going to go over

is going to be about the website.