Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys, Real World Labs): The Language of VR

Christopher@Stapleton.net @MixingRealities #IMAGINALITY copyright 2017 SIMIOSYS.com
The Language of VR
Incorporating the InterPlay of
Story, Games & Play in
Virtual Worlds
Christopher Stapleton, MFA,
SIMIOSYS, Experience Architect
Virtual World Society, CIO
International VR Research Institute (IVRI),
Creative Director
ChristopherStapleton @Simiosys

The Language of VR: From experience to transformation
The InterPlay of story, play & game has been the framework to apply this
emergent language of VR to transcend applications and transforms lives
Training
Enterprise
Medical Rehabilitation
TherapyEducation & Entertainment

Language as exclusion:
The efficiency of traditional language has limited the breadth & depth of
communication & connection causing conflict, confusion and isolation
from efficiency to isolation
www.awesomestories.com http://www.nuiguru-me.com
Aphasia, isolation due to loss of language Deep-space travel, loss of human connection

Virtuality is not a destination, but a continuum between us and our creations (Mimesis)
Reality
Augmented Reality Augmented Virtuality
VR (Mimesis)
Mixed Reality: Virtuality Continuum
What is VR exactly?

Its less about what we perceive externally, than it is about what we believe internally
Reality Virtuality
Imaginality
The Language of VR: Full bandwidth of human experience

The Language of Virtuality
Language is as much about who we are as where we are
Reality Virtuality
Simulating Identities
Robot Agent Human Avatar
Imaginality

The Language of Experience
Language is orchestrating human connection and social engagement with our imagination
Reality Virtuality
Imaginality
Human Connection

Language as exchange:
Language was the ancient disruptive technology that transformed an
insigniﬁcant species into a social world order dominating the earth
Expression of Experience, Empathy & Enterprise
www.awesomestories.com
Gesture Pictures
www.themarysue.com
Sounds
Neanderthal Museum, Croatia www.themarysue.com
Symbols

Language as experience:
Before language: All senses, all dimensions, all directions and all
realities to engage and expand our social identities through…
Human connection and and social engagement
Play Games
Aztec Ball Game
Story Music & Dance
http://www.cherylhunter.com
Performing Arts Center For African Cultures
Akha children www.roughguides.com

Language as empathy:
Each new medium of language makes our society more aware and connected
but at the same time, individuals disengaged and more isolated
From function to purpose
www.awesomestories.com
Internet
http://www.business2community.com
Writing
Oriental Institute
Speech Broadcast
4Moms.gr

Language as engagement:
So Virtuality is not a destination you need to choose,
Its an author’s palette of physical, virtual and imagined elements
Melting the boundaries between worlds
VirtualityContinuum
Experience Mimesis

The Language as Entertainment:
Stimulating, engaging, transporting & sharing the Audience Imagination
The collective Imagination
Music & DanceGames FieldsPlaygrounds StoryWorlds

I
R
V
Book
V
I R
Film
V
I R
Game Park
V
I
R
Real IR V Virtual Imagined
The Language as Exploitation: Leveraging the audience imagination
Literary Experience = 1/8 Virtual + 7/8 Imagination
Cinematic Experience = 7/8 Virtual + 1/8 Imagination
Game Experience = 3/8 Virtual + 2/8 Imagination + 1/8 Reality
Theme Park Experience = 2/8 virtual + 2/8 Imagination + 4/8 reality
MetaVerse Experience = Virtual x Imagined x Real

Conversational Story Creation: Leveraging the audience imagination

Language of StoryTroves: Medium for Conversational Story Creation
Public History Center Aphasia House Clinic SCALE Aphasia Center
Aphasia Bank Conversational Story Creation Capture

Presented by Aphasia House, Aphasia Bank, Snyder Center for Aphasia Life Enhancement (SCALE) and Simiosys Real World Laboratory
StoryTroves Scaling to Serve the World
• Expanding to
millions 
• What do you lose
with Virtuality? 
• What can you gain
with Virtuality? 
• Rabbit Trails to other
virtual worlds. 
• From Aphasia to
Astronauts

The Language of Exploration: Its not real until we are aware its real
Language in all its forms took hundreds to thousands of years to evolve
Empathetic
ImaginationI think, I know
this story
Expressive
Imagination

The Language of Exposition: Does it matter if no one understands?
Language succeeded because we wanted to connect
Expressive
ImaginationThis is what
I think…
I wonder what
he is thinking?
Empathetic
Imagination
Story Listener StoryTeller
Talk, Listen, Talk, Listen, Talk…

Express
Interpret
Interpret
Express
The Language of Expostulation: Its not successful unless it brings us together
Language in all its forms took hundreds to thousands of years to evolve
Expressive
Imagination
Empathetic
Imagination
Conversation

Express
Interpret
Interpret
Express
The Language of Exposition: We want to share our story with others as one
However, we do not think in words…We think in simulations (Mental Models)
Human
Connection
Share Expand
?

The Language of Exponentially: Our larger collective story (fact & ﬁction)
Imaginality becomes larger than the sum of the real, virtual and imagined
StoryTeller
StoryTeller
Story Listener
Story Trance
Story Listener
Story
Collaboration

Story
Participation
Authoring Acting Absorbing
Author Novel Video Games
“Artiﬁcial
Intelligence”
Actor Improv Stage Play
Interactive
Performance
Audience RPG
Participatory
Theater
Cinema
The Language of elicitation: Convergence of Media Agency

Heart
Head
Hands
VIRTUAL
IMAGINED
REAL
STORY
PLAY
GAME
Authoring Experience: Interplay of Story, Play & Game
Story Flow
Game Flow
Play Flow
The Language of InterPlay: Convergence of Imagined, Real & Virtual

Heart
Head
Hands
VIRTUAL
IMAGINEDREAL
STORYPLAY
GAME
How?What?
Why?
InterPlay: Experiential Media Creative Conventions
The Language of InterPlay: Convergence of Hearts, Hands & Heads

Heart
Head
Hands
STORYPLAY
GAME
How?What?
Why?
InterPlay: Experiential Learning Strategy
Response
Consequence
Stimulus
Characters
Worlds
Events
Rules
Tools
Goals
AssessmentStrategy
Objectives
The Language of InterPlay: Convergence of Story, Play & Game

Insights
Feedback
Skills
Plan/Decide
Cognitive Skills
Know/Sense
Communication
Team Skills
Act/Do
Technical Skills
InterPLAY
ST
OR
Y
PLAY
G
AME
Virtuality
DataVirtualization
Reality
Tools
Imaginality
Mental Model
The Language of InterPlay:Convergence of human connection & engagement

The Language of Imagination:From comprehension to creation to collaboration
As a child, I was rewarded as a consumer of knowledge, not a creator
They labeled me as a slow reader…
but realized I was a luxurious reader
I loved learning…
but hated school
We need to think anew about
the language of VR

The Gymnasium for the Imagination
Christopher Stapleton, MFA,
SIMIOSYS, Experience Architect
Virtual World Society, CIO
International VR Research Institute (IVRI),
Creative Director
ChristopherStapleton @Simiosys
V I R T U A L
W O R L D
S O C I E T Y
AWE June 2nd,
Virtual World Society
VR for Good, Speaker Series
@VRWorldSociety

Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys, Real World Labs): The Language of VR

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

Similar to Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys, Real World Labs): The Language of VR

Similar to Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys, Real World Labs): The Language of VR (20)

More from AugmentedWorldExpo

More from AugmentedWorldExpo (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys, Real World Labs): The Language of VR