Narratives within immersive technologies

On the embedded cognition of non-verbal narratives

Acknowledging that narratives are an important resource in human communication and cognition, the focus of this article is on the cognitive aspects of involvement with visual and auditory non-verbal narratives, particularly in relation to the newest immersive media and digital interactive representational technologies. We consider three relevant trends in narrative studies that have emerged in ...

Emerging Applications in Immersive Technologies

The world of Virtual Environments and Immersive Technologies (Sutherland, 1965) (Kalawsky, 1993) are evolving quite rapidly. As the range and complexity of applications increases, so does the requirement for intelligent interaction. The now relatively simple environments of the OZ project (Bates, Loyall & Reilly, 1992) have been superseded by Virtual Theatres (Doyle & Hayes-Roth, 1997) (Giannac...

IVRUX: A Tool for Analyzing Immersive Narratives in Virtual Reality

Towards Immersive Modeling - Challenges and Recommendations: A Workshop Analyzing the Needs of Designers

Among the many applications now available in virtual environments (VEs), a modeling application to generate geometry is gaining in relevance. Immersive modeling in VE involves generating drafts and manipulating geometry within an immersive environment such as a CAVE, a Responsive Workbench or other immersive projection technologies. It is a field which will supply product design with new perspe...

Yarncraft: Location Aware Narratives in Virtual Space

Location-aware narratives are a form of hypertext in which the path of the narrative is determined by the reader’s physical location. In this paper we adapt an existing model of location-aware sculptural hypertext to make it suitable for navigating in virtual space, and create an extension to an existing virtual world to demonstrate how hyper-narratives written in this framework may be consumed...