by Martina Megaro | Dec 10, 2018 | AR/VR, Story Technology
A Two-Level Planning Framework for Mixed Reality Interactive Narratives with User Engagement We present an event-based interactive storytelling system for virtual 3D environments that aims to offer free-form user experiences while constraining the narrative to...
by Martina Megaro | Dec 2, 2018 | Machine Learning
Disentangled Dynamic Representations from Unordered Data We present a deep generative model that learns disentangled static and dynamic representations of data from unordered input. December 2, 2018Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference 2018 ...
by Martina Megaro | Nov 27, 2018 | Rendering, Visual Computing
A radiative transfer framework for non-exponential media We develop a new theory of volumetric light transport for media with non-exponential free-flight distributions. November 27, 2018ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Authors Benedikt Bitterli (Dartmouth College)...
by Martina Megaro | Nov 8, 2018 | Animation, AR/VR, Story Technology, Visual Computing
PuppetPhone: Puppeteering Virtual Characters Using a Smartphone We propose a new interaction metaphor that reduces the gap between physical toys and virtual characters. November 8, 2018Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games Authors Raphael Anderegg (Disney...
by Martina Megaro | Nov 5, 2018 | AR/VR, Machine Learning, Story Technology
PICA:Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narrative We developed PICA: a proactive intelligent conversational agent for interactive narratives that can guide users through such experiences. November 5, 2018International Conference on...