Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality: Towards the Immersive Interactive Movie

Immersive interactive movies redefine narrative by blending live-action 360° video with responsive storytelling.

Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality offers a narrative model that combines live-action 360° video with an interactive fiction structure to create immersive and interactive narrative experiences. The book presents an epistemology of immersive interactive movies that analyzes their artistic, narrative, and interactive qualities; the production workflow of immersive-interactive movies; and an evaluation methodology for this kind of experiences. This volume seeks to shed light on the evolution of narrative immersive experiences at a time when computer-mediated immersion is rapidly becoming the norm.