Project Orpheus A Research Study into 360° Cinematic VR

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Özçinar

Knorr

et al. 2018

To explore methods that are currently used by professional virtual reality (VR) filmmakers to tell their stories and guide users, we analyze how end-users view 360 • video in the presence of directional cues and evaluate if they are able to follow the actual story of narrative 360 • films. In this context, we first collected data from five professional VR filmmakers. The data contains eight 360 • videos, the directors cut, which is the intended viewing direction of the director, plot points and directional cues used for user guidance. Then, we performed a subjective experiment with 20 test subjects viewing the videos while their head orientation was recorded. Finally, we present and discuss the experimental results and show, among others, that visual discomfort and disorientation on part of the viewer not only lessen the immersive quality of the films but also cause difficulties in the viewer gaining a full understanding of the narrative that the director wished them to view.

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Director’s Cut - Analysis of Aspects of Interactive Storytelling for VR Films

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Özçinar

Knorr

et al. 2018

“…Storytelling. Four techniques that have traditionally formed the 'tools' that filmmakers rely on to tell their stories are: cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound and editing [Vosmeer and Schouten 2017]. The expansion of these tools into VR, however, requires each to be re-evaluated as the viewer is free to look in any direction of the 360 • film without the direct control of the filmmaker.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Director's cut

Knorr

Özçinar

Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production

et al. 2018

Methods of storytelling in cinema have well established conventions that have been built over the course of its history and the development of the format. In 360 • film many of the techniques that have formed part of this cinematic language or visual narrative are not easily applied or are not applicable due to the nature of the format i.e. not contained the border of the screen. In this paper, we analyze how end-users view 360 • video in the presence of directional cues and evaluate if they are able to follow the actual story of narrative 360 • films. We first let filmmakers create an intended scan-path, the so called director's cut, by setting position markers in the equirectangular representation of the omnidirectional content for eight short 360 • films.

“…Four techniques that have traditionally formed the 'tools' that filmmakers rely on to tell their stories are: cinematography, sound, editing and mise-en-scene [3]. The expansion of these tools into VR, however, requires each to be re-evaluated.…”

Section: Adapting Cinematic Storytelling To Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faoladh: A Case Study in Cinematic VR Storytelling and Production

Dowling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Smolić

et al. 2018

Portraying traditional cinematic narratives in virtual reality (VR) is an emerging practice where often the methods normally associated with cinematic storytelling need to be adapted to the 360 format. In this paper we investigates some proposed cinematic practices for narrative storytelling in a cinematic VR film set in late 9th century Ireland that follows the perilous journey young Celt as he evades being captured by Viking raiders. From this we will analyze the fidelity of those practices with results collected from YouTube Analytics.