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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!”


WALTER CRONKITE


DOCUMENTARY GAMES

Similar ideas surface in…


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:

• JFK: Reloaded


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:

• JFK: Reloaded

• Kuma Wars: John Kerry’s Swiftboat


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:

• JFK: Reloaded

• Kuma Wars:John Kerry’s Swiftboat

• 911 Survivor


DOCUMENTARY GAMES:

• JFK: Reloaded

• Kuma Wars

• 911 Survivor


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


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


AVATAR EXPERIENCE

Avatar experience photo

IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMCIR/Frontline World/Mother Jones

Second Life site:CAP & TRADE

IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMSecond Life site:CAP & TRADE


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

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Abstract


IMMERSIVE JOURNALISMHow do you report on “stress positions”?


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


IPSRESS VIDEO

Does this immersive journalism experience raise questions about journalistic integrity due to subjectivity of experience and editorial control?


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

http://generalapp.newschallenge.org/SNC/GroupSearch.aspx?pguid=4a4f8c6a-d2c2-4545-82db-c8ed4b415eba&search=STROOME

Nonny de la PeñaImmersiveJournalism.com - Stroome.comUSC MxR Lab

Techraking, 2012


Immersive Virtual Reality for the First Person Experience of the News

& a bit about Stroome…

Tech rakingimmersivejournalismpresentation4 10_12

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