MediaTech Con *CTPiX18 + VR NOW Con

Voices of VR podcast host Kent Bye will be presenting his Archetypal Experiential Design Framework, which breaks down an immersive experience into four major components of  quality, context, character, and story. He'll talk about the four qualities of presence, the twelve major domains of human experience, new ways to think about character & temperament, and the two major types of immersive storytelling. The Yang Archetypal Journey is about making choices and taking action that invites the audience to become an active participant in a story of individuation. While the Yin Archetypal Journey is about connecting to the audience to their own sensory experience of embodiment, emotions, and presence to dissolve the ego and recognize systemic relationships and interconnectedness of all things.  We'll interpret different experiences as seen through this lens and explore the tradeoffs of qualities of presence, mashing up contexts, creating nuanced characters, and balancing player agency with authorial control.