Interactive Narrative in Virtual Reality
This work addresses the need for accessible tools for content creators in the growing field of interactive fiction and VR, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing interactive narrative concepts.
The authors tackled the problem of creating interactive narratives in virtual reality by proposing a tool that uses a simple markup language, enabling content creators and researchers to develop such stories in VR environments.
Interactive fiction is a literary genre that is rapidly gaining popularity. In this genre, readers are able to explicitly take actions in order to guide the course of the story. With the recent popularity of narrative focused games, we propose to design and develop an interactive narrative tool for content creators. In this extended abstract, we show how we leverage this interactive medium to present a tool for interactive storytelling in virtual reality. Using a simple markup language, content creators and researchers are now able to create interactive narratives in a virtual reality environment. We further discuss the potential future directions for a virtual reality storytelling engine.