Telling a story in 3D community oriented worlds

Neora (http://www.neora.com/ � ucl talk � Dec. 10^th, 03

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� Leading Concepts

o Real and virtual worlds inbound in each other

� Parallel presence, immersion

� Relations between real and virtual actors, real and virtual audience

o Low-tech approach � online/realtime

� Accesible to all � cheap, can use low-bandwidth

� Bottom-up � small budget, no research group to work with (Dr. Shani the dramaturg helped with the script)

� Open � Creative Commons license (similar to GNU open software license)

o Story telling

� Non liner narrative

o Interactive � influenced by the audience

� Spectators are also acors

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