Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. New Techniques

   1. Under Construction in Europe: Virtual and Mixed Reality for a Rich Media Experience

      • Eric Badiqué

      Pages 3-9

   2. Generation of True 3D Films

      • Jean-Christophe Nebel

      Pages 10-19

   3. Spatial Sound Enhancing Virtual Story Telling

      • David Murphy, Ian Pitt

      Pages 20-29

   4. The VISIONS Project

      • Olivier Balet, Paul Kafno, Fred Jordan, Tony Polichroniadis

      Pages 30-39

   5. Programming Agent with Purposes: Application to Autonomous Shooting in Virtual Environment

      • Pierre-Alexandre Favier, Pierre De Loor, Jacques Tisseau

      Pages 40-43

   6. Interactive Immersive Transfiction

      • Alok Nandi, Xavier Marichal

      Pages 44-47

3. Authoring Tools

   1. Interactive Storytelling: People, Stories, and Games

      • Andrew Glassner

      Pages 51-60

   2. An Authoring Tool for Intelligent Educational Games

      • Massimo Zancanaro, Alessandro Cappelletti, Claudio Signorini, Carlo Strapparava

      Pages 61-68

   3. Generation and Implementation of Mixed-Reality, Narrative Performances Involving Robotic Actors

      • Nikitas M. Sgouros, Sophia Kousidou

      Pages 69-78

4. A New Form of Narration

   1. Film and the Development of Interactive Narrative

      • Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell

      Pages 81-89

   2. Virtual Storytelling as Narrative Potential: Towards an Ecology of Narrative

      • Clive Fencott

      Pages 90-99

   3. Adaptive Narrative: How Autonomous Agents, Hollywood, and Multiprocessing Operating Systems Can Live Happily Ever After

      • Jay Douglas, Jonathan Gratch

      Pages 100-109

5. Virtual Characters

   1. Learning in Character: Building Autonomous Animated Characters That Learn What They Ought to Learn

      • Bruce M. Blumberg

      Pages 113-126

   2. Real Characters in Virtual Stories

      • Isabel Machado, Ana Paiva, Paul Brna

      Pages 127-134

   3. Real-Time Character Animation Using Multi-layered Scripts and Spacetime Optimization

      • Eric Menou, Vincent Bonnafous, Jean-Pierre Jessel, René Caubet

      Pages 135-144

   4. Characters in Search of an Author: AI-Based Virtual Storytelling

      • Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Steven J. Mead

      Pages 145-154

   5. Virtual Agents’ Self-Perception in Story Telling

      • Eric Maffre, Jacques Tisseau, Marc Parenthoёn

      Pages 155-158

6. Applications

   1. Reflections from a Hobby Horse

      • Paul Kafno

      Pages 161-170

   2. DocToon© — A Mediator in the Hospital of the XXIst Century

      • Benoît Labaye, Nadia Guérin, Sébastien Dohogne

      Pages 171-180

The story is the richest heritage of human civilizations. One can imagine the ?rst stories being told, several thousand centuries ago, by wise old men huddled around camp?res. Since this time, the narrative process has been considerably developed and enriched: sounds and music have been added to complement the speech, while scenery and theatrical sets have been created to enhance the story environment. Actors, dancers, and technicians have replaced the lone storyteller. The story is no longer the sole preserve of oral narrative but can be realized in book, theatrical, dance, or movie form. Even the audience can extend up to several million individuals. And yet in its many forms the story lies at the heart of one of the world’s most important industries. The advent of the digital era has enhanced and accelerated this evolution: image synthesis, digital special e?ects, new Human-Computer interfaces, and the Internet allow one not only to realize more sophisticated narrative forms but also to create new concepts such as video gaming and virtual environments. The art of storytelling is becoming evermore complex. Virtual reality o?ers new tools to capture, and to interactively modify the imaginary environment, in ever more intuitive ways, coupled with a maximum sensory feedback. In fact, virtual reality technologies o?er enhanced and exciting production possibilities for the creation and non-linear manipulation in real time, of almost any story form. This has lead to the new concept of Virtual Storytelling.

• AI-based storytelling
• Performance
• Virtual reality
• animated characters
• animation
• autonomous agents
• cooperative activities
• interactive storytelling
• learning
• mixed reality
• operating system
• optimization
• programming
• robot
• virtual storytelling

• Virtual Reality Department, CS SI, Toulouse, France

  Olivier Balet

• Laboratoire d’Informatique, Université d’Avignon, Avignon Cedex, France

  Gérard Subsol

• IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

  Patrice Torguet

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