POV Digital Technology Fellow Brian Chirls presented his research at POV (pbs.org/pov) on design patterns and conventions in interactive nonfiction and demonstrated his experimental tools for journalists at MIT Open Documentary Lab.

Brian Chirls on Vimeo.

Demos  include real-time web video processing, dynamic adaptation of media to users’ devices and new techniques for navigation, object manipulation and data visualization in virtual reality.

Brian Chirls is a creative technologist known for his work with web video libraries Popcorn.js and Seriously.js and for the distribution tools and strategy behind the cult indie film Four Eyed Monsters.