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VR Tour

Luiz Velho IMPA

Outline

• Overview
• VR Tour Entities
• Tour Script
• Tour Experience
• Case Study

VR Tour

"Guided Participatory Meta-Narrative 
 For Virtual Reality Exploration”

Concepts

• Meta-Narrative
• Narrative-Based Content
• Navigation
• Guided Tour
• Participatory VR

Program

• Preparation
• Fruition
• Introduction
• Scenes
• Conclusion
• Follow-Up

VR Tour Entities

• Participants
• Spaces
• Virtual Elements

Participants

• Players
• Tour Host
• VR Guests
• Story Characters
• Participants
• Regular Guests
• Director
• Staff

Tour Host

• Guide
• Conveys the Story to Participants

Human Guide Robot Guide

VR Guests

• Participants
• Immersed in VR Environment

Digital Avatars

• Minimalist
• Head
• Hands
• Name Tags

Story Characters

• Digital Characters from Base Narrative Content
• Representation
• Full Body Avatar
• Complete Motion Tracking (recorded)

Digital Avatar and Actor MoCap with Inverse Kinematics

Director

• Selects Cinema Visualization for Regular Guests

Director and Switcher Interface

Regular Guests & Staff

• Regular Guests
• Share the experience in a physical movie theatre
• Staff (Technical Crew)
• Operate the stages and help participants

VR Tour Spaces

• Physical Environment
• VR Stages
• Theater
• VR Environment

VR Stages

• Virtual Reality Studios
• Host
• VR Guests

VR Stage

Theatre

• Movie Theatre
• Regular Guests

Cinema Screen Microphone

Movie Theatre

VR Environment

• Spots
• Location of Story Segment
• Areas
• Mapped to Physical Spaces of Host and VR Guests

VR Areas Virtual Space - Side View

Host Guests

Virtual Elements

• Used for Interactions

Cards Captions Markers Active Images Mechanisms Lights

Tour Script

• Content
• Structure
• Representation

Content

• Text
• Story Clips
• Partial Order

Structure

• Sequences
• Scenes
• Segments

Representation

• Graph
• State Machine
• Exploration

Tour Experience

• Navigation
• Guided Participation
• Interaction
• Cinema

Navigation

• Teletransport
• Active Spot

Teletransport Feedback

Guided Participation

• VR Host
• VR Guests
• Guests

Interaction

• Highlighting
• Pointing

Laser Pointing

Cinema

• Cameras
• Microphone

Case Study

• The Tempest

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