2004/2005 Rockefeller Fellowship Nominees http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3969 2013-05-25T07:08:42Z 2013-05-25T07:08:42Z Anstey, Josephine Pape, Dave http://hdl.handle.net/1813/12260 2009-06-01T18:39:27Z 2009-05-04T15:09:12Z

Title: 2006 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal Authors: Anstey, Josephine; Pape, Dave Abstract: This project is a virtual reality drama, Human Trials, to be presented in an immersive virtual reality system, featuring live actors controlling computer graphic characters that interact with the participant. Imagine Tarkovsky's Stalker, crossed with Alice Through the Looking Glass, crossed with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now imagine embarking on a guided journey through this warped yet familiar landscape. As you proceed your actions and interactions are observed, interpreted psychologically, and used to determine the outcome of your quest. The underlying question for this project is: Can virtual reality be as powerful a medium for fiction as novels, plays, film? VR immerses the user in a 3D audio/visual environment which she navigates and interacts with in real time. In fiction, the reader/viewer identifies with a protagonist who is dealing with a challenging situation. It has proven very difficult to bring the two together and make the user the protagonist, navigating a dramatic situation that is rich emotionally, psychologically, sociologically, politically. This project builds on the lessons we learnt creating a previous virtual fiction, The Thing Growing, and continues our explorations and experimentations in the field of virtual fiction.

2009-05-04T15:09:12Z Anstey, Josephine Pape, Dave http://hdl.handle.net/1813/5111 2007-12-09T13:58:43Z 2007-01-04T14:34:05Z

Title: 2005 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal Authors: Anstey, Josephine; Pape, Dave Abstract: The Trial The Trail is an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience designed to engage the user as a central protagonist in a compelling interactive drama. It is designed for a projection-based, 3-D stereo VR display with one large screen or multiple screens forming a virtual theater. Immersive VR puts the user inside the virtual world with the other characters rather than outside, viewing the world on a monitor and manipulating an avatar of herself. This collaborative project brings together artificial intelligence and visualization research with the goal of creating intelligent actor-agents and interactive, dramatic, virtual reality experiences. Our interactive drama is designed to create an unfolding story around the user which the agents establish, populate, maintain and influence. We build our VR dramas using a two part structure; a psychological substrate where we explicitly determine the emotional states we want to evoke in the user; and an implementation level with three elements - an interactive script, a smart set, and actor-agents - that turns the psychological plot into a dramatically evolving series of responsiveconundrums for the user.

2007-01-04T14:34:05Z Anstey, Josephine Pape, Dave http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3970 2006-12-14T07:03:48Z 2006-12-13T19:12:59Z

Title: 2004 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal Authors: Anstey, Josephine; Pape, Dave Abstract: This project is a virtual reality drama, The Trial The Trail, to be presented in an immersive virtual reality system. Imagine Tarkovsky's Stalker, crossed with Alice Through the Looking Glass, crossed with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now imagine embarking on a guided journey through this warped yet familiar landscape. As you proceed your actions and interactions are logged, interpreted psychologically, and used to determine the outcome of your quest. The underlying question for this project is: Can virtual reality be as powerful a medium for fiction as novels, plays, film? VR immerses the user in a 3D audio/visual environment which she navigates and interacts with in real time. In fiction, the reader/viewer identifies with a protagonist who is dealing with a challenging situation. It has proven very difficult to bring the two together and make the user the protagonist, navigating a dramatic situation that is rich emotionally, psychologically, sociologically, politically. This project builds on the lessons we learnt creating a previous virtual fiction, The Thing Growing, and continues our explorations and experimentations in the field of virtual fiction.

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