Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling: International Conference ICVS 2001 Avignon, France, September 27-28, 2001 ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2197) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540426116 ISBN 13: 9783540426110

Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description

Virtual Storytelling - Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling These refereed proceedings of the first International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2001 offer topical sections on new techniques, authoring tools, a new form of narration, virtual characters, and applications.

Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2001, held in Avignon, France, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The book offers topical sections on new techniques, authoring tools, a new form of narration, virtual characters, and applications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540426116
• ISBN 13: 9783540426110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Balet Olivier, Subsol Gerard, Torguet Patrice