Origami Story: Collaborative Storytelling in VR

Inspired by Ken Liu’s short story Paper Menagerie where a tiger made from newspaper comes to life,

we imagined and developed a storytelling workshop for Oculus Quest
where users are encouraged to use craft and programming-by-demonstration to create scenes with recorded sounds and animation.

 Creating scenes with recorded sounds and animations

A user can bring and lock scene to editing stations.

She presses record to add to the scene’s recordings.

Picking up toys duplicates them. The scene records movement and sound.

Exploring an interactive storytelling workshop

She jumps into a scene by creating a sphere that changes her scale & teleports her.

She can also jump out of scenes through a reverse, intuitive interaction.