Title
Making you matter: creating interactive VR narratives through experimentation and learning
Abstract
Virtual Reality (VR) is a transformative medium for narrative storytelling where content creators can place an audience member inside the story, give them a role to play, and ultimately make them matter to the characters. Immersive storytelling is fundamentally different from film and games. It requires a new creative toolset that is still in its infancy compared to other entertainment mediums. We provide a behind the scenes look at our many experimentations, failures, and learnings in developing interactive VR animated narratives spanning four released projects: Invasion!, Asteroids!, Crow: The Legend, and Bonfire. We delve into cinematic techniques for VR, including staging, movement mechanics, and directing the viewer's eye. We explore the role the viewer plays in each of our pieces. Finally, we dive into how we make you matter through nonverbal communication, interactivity that supports the narrative structure, non-linear storytelling, and character AI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3329715.3338883
DigiPro '19: The Digital Production Symposium Los Angeles California July, 2019
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6799-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Larry Cutler171.77
Eric Darnell211.43
nathaniel dirksen301.35
Michael Hutchinson400.68
Scott Peterson500.68
Robert Schiewe600.68
Wei Wang700.34