A Mediography Of Virtual Reality Non-Fiction: Insights And Future Directions

Chris Bevan and David Green

2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '18).

VR Nonfiction - A Mediography: http://vrdocumentaryencounters.co.uk/vrmediography/

The emergence in recent years of consumer-accessible virtual reality (VR) technologies such as the Google Daydream, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive has led to a renewal of commercial, academic and public interest in immersive interactive media. Virtual reality non-fiction (VRNF) (e.g. documentary) is an emergent and rapidly evolving new medium for filmmaking that draws from - and builds upon - traditional forms of non-fiction, as well as interactive media, gaming and immersive theatre. In this paper, we present our ongoing work to capture and present the first comprehensive record of VRNF - a Mediography of Virtual Reality Non-Fiction - to tell the story of where this new medium has come from, how it is evolving, and where it is heading.

Part of Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters (VRDocs).

BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Bevan:2018:MVR:3210825.3213557,
 author = {Bevan, Chris and Green, David},
 title = {A Mediography of Virtual Reality Non-Fiction: Insights and Future Directions},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video},
 series = {TVX '18},
 year = {2018},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-5115-7},
 location = {SEOUL, Republic of Korea},
 pages = {161--166},
 numpages = {6},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3210825.3213557},
 doi = {10.1145/3210825.3213557},
 acmid = {3213557},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {documentary, mediography, non-fiction, vr},
}
    

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