Responsive Tale
2023
>>>Collabrative Project: Hong Hua (Creative Technologist), Trey Bradley, Rina kim
>>>Recognition: 2023 MIT Reality Hack, Hardware: Impact! Prize
>>>Recognition: 2023 Story in Motion, Museum of Moving Image
>>>Recognition: 2023 AWE, Reality Hack, Inc.
>>>Tools: Unity, ESP32, Rhinoceros, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting
Responsive Tale is an innovative multimodal augmented reading experience designed to enhance engagement and offer an immersive storytelling adventure. Users embark on this journey through a mixed reality headset, where captivating virtual visuals come to life.
As users delve into the narrative, virtual images, text, models, and animations seamlessly blend with physical elements, tracked in real-time. An exciting feature of the experience is the dynamic haptic feedback system, which responds to the user's interaction with specific elements on the page. This tactile feedback enhances the immersion, making the storytelling experience not just visual and auditory, but also tactile.
Responsive Tale pushes the boundaries of immersion by bridging the virtual and physical worlds, offering users a truly unique and unforgettable mixed-reality experience.
Responsive Tale was born on 2023 MIT Reality Hack, and won the prize of Hardware:Impact! [The team that demonstrates the most real world impact for their device (choose a target audience that would use your device) Some examples of impact: bringing XR accessibility to more people via custom hardware, or making a cool VR device that will push the VR industry forward in some way (you decide how)]. This project was also presented at Stories in Motion, Museum of the Moving Image.
