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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