Storytelling and VR: Inducing emotions through AI characters

NARRATIVE STORYTELLING IN VR THROUGH GAMING by Brycon

Game AI as Storytelling

Historically, games have been played between human opponents. However, with the advent of the computer came the notion that one might play with or against a computational surrogate. Dating back to the 1950s with early efforts in computer chess, approaches to game artificial intelligence (AI) have been designed around adversarial, or zero-sum, games. The goal of intelligent game-playing agents i...

AI and Musical Emotions

Embodiment is crucially important in our understanding of the mind. The human body, as modeled in the brain, provides an essential frame of reference for the neural processes that we experience as the mind. We use the physical state of our very living being as the ground reference for the mental constructions which we make about the environment we live in. The human body and the brain establish...

AI-based animation for interactive storytelling

In this paper, we describe a method for implementing AI-based animation of artificial actors in the context of interactive storytelling. We have developed a fully implemented prototype based on the UnrealTM game engine and carried experiments with a simple sitcom-like scenario. We discuss the central role of artificial actors in interactive storytelling and how real-time generation of their beh...

Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and the Illusion in Art

Las Meninas is a virtual reality VR artwork based on the painting of the same name by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez Created for the CAVE tm Las Meni nas attempts to establish a language of art in virtual reality by placing VR in the realm of storytelling storytelling that is not simply formalistic and decorative but also psychological The viewer confronts a narrative cryptogram which can be d...