Speaking of ghosts, I am struck by how well immersive virtual reality lends itself to ghost stories. And I don’t mean the sort of thumb twiddling VR that’s currently being pushed by certain large companies, where you sit all day in front of a computer.<\/p>\n
I mean the kind of VR that we are prototyping at NYU, where you get up on your feet and wander around the real world, a world with actual doors and desks and physical things — except that the real world has been utterly transformed, made to look like another place entirely, a place where magic is possible.<\/p>\n
An analogy we’ve been using in our discussions here is with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More<\/i>. That’s an immersive non-linear narrative experience in which you wander — with your physical body, and on your own two feet – through a mysterious hotel where fragments of connected stories are taking place all around you.<\/p>\n
Since Sleep No More<\/i> uses traditional technologies, those stories can only be acted out by physical present performers and dancers. But what if that restriction were lifted?<\/p>\n
The result would be a powerful medium for telling fantastical stories — ghost stories in particular. Creatures could materialize right in front of you, characters could walk through walls or float though the air, mirrors could cast altered reflections — or reflections from another room entirely.<\/p>\n
We all have our own ghost stories to tell. And we may just be about to get a better way to tell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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