Hands-off Interactive Storytelling; Intuitive Agency in an Immersive Cinematic Film

This demo aims to explore and test new forms of hands-off interactivity, based more on intuitive reactions than on conscious decision-making. A hands-off interactivity would allow a diegetic experience in which the user can avoid breaking the immersion, or a “pull-back” produced by the consciousness of the interactive device. This project uses immersivity, spatial storytelling and dramatic soundscaping to facilitate navigation through simultaneous acoustic and dramatic spaces, which constitute fragments of one linear story. Driven by a dramatically-purposed stimulus users can generate inputs with organic movements around the axis of the CVR (Cinematic Virtual Reality) perspective. This way, inputs are intuitive reactions to diegetic stimuli from within the virtual narrative. The freedom to navigate the narrative space provides multiple ways to perceive the linear story, facilitating interactive storytelling.

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