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IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM
Immersive Virtual Reality for the First Person Experience of the News
& a bit about Stroome…
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBasics
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM is a novel way to utilize gaming platforms and virtual environments to convey news, documentary and non-fiction stories.
These platforms provide the user an immersive experience that can offer unprecedented access to the sights and sounds, and possibly feelings and emotions that accompany the news.
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBasics
WHAT IS IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM?
• Immersive Journalism puts the audience at a virtual reconstruction of the scene.
• Visual and audio material from good “boots on the ground” and investigative journalism work as both primary material and to inform the reconstruction like any news piece/documentary.
• The sense of presence that comes with immersive virtual reality offers a visceral experience that communicates to several senses.
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
WALTER CRONKITE
Journalism has always tried to carry the reader or audienceto where the reporting is taking place, which Martha Gellhorn called “The view from the ground.”
Consider the Cronkite series of films made between 1953 and 1957…
“YOU ARE THERE!”
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
WALTER CRONKITE
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES
Similar ideas surface in…
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
• JFK: Reloaded
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
• JFK: Reloaded
• Kuma Wars: John Kerry’s Swiftboat
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
• JFK: Reloaded
• Kuma Wars:John Kerry’s Swiftboat
• 911 Survivor
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
• JFK: Reloaded
• Kuma Wars
• 911 Survivor
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMBackground
DOCUMENTARY GAMES:
One of Survivor 911’s developers, Jeff Cole, states that:
“the game itself is not really a game at all … (it) keeps no score or actual track of time. It is merelya moment caught in time”
From Tracy Fullerton’s:Documentary Games: Putting the
Player in the Path of History
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Iinforming our efforts
it seems that we are hardwired to adopt representations of ourselves as real -
Informing our Efforts:Studies providing evidence of the connection between the sense of one’s physical body to the virtual one
AVATAR EXPERIENCE
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AVATAR EXPERIENCE
Avatar experience photo
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMCIR/Frontline World/Mother Jones
Second Life site:CAP & TRADE
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMSecond Life site:CAP & TRADE
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Second Life
site:
GONE GITMO
Second Life site: gg
The documentary “Unconstitutional”
was transformed during a residency at BAVC:
“to translate an existing, significant
documentary projectinto digital media”
Translate at BAVC
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMVirtual Guantanamo Bay Prison
Integrate experiences
Integratedvideo, audio, scripted avatar experiences and live events to engage visitors as viewers and active participants
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMVirtual Guantánamo Bay Prison
Hooded american Flag
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMVirtual Guantanamo Bay Prison
Abstract
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMVirtual Guantanamo Bay Prison
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMHow do you report on “stress positions”?
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How do you report on destination?
The FOIA obtained interrogation logs of Al Qahtani were altered from the passive to active voice. For example, ‘SGT R makes the detainee stand up andsit down 3 times,’ was read as ‘Sit down! Stand up!’ in succession three times.
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMPowerful sense of embodiment
IPSRESS VIDEO
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IPSRESS VIDEO
Does this immersive journalism experience raise questions about journalistic integrity due to subjectivity of experience and editorial control?
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IPSRESS VIDEO
BRITISH SOLDIERS IN IRAQ: VIDEO RELEASED IN THE TRIAL ABOUT THE DEATH OF BAHA MOUSA WHILE IN BRITISH CUSTODY
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMExperiential – “Hunger in Los Angeles”
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMUsing audio captured on scenePremiered at Sundance Film Festival
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMHunger in Los Angeles is set up here!Come to my breakout session…
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMQuick turnaround possibilities – Autodesk 123D Catch
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMFOV2GO - mobile
STROOME = COLLABORATIVE VIDEO Edit & Remix in the cloud, allowing journalists to collaboratefrom different locations around the world – coming soon in HTML5
Nonny de la PeñaImmersiveJournalism.com - Stroome.comUSC MxR Lab
Techraking, 2012
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM
Immersive Virtual Reality for the First Person Experience of the News
& a bit about Stroome…