Mediating Presence

Mediating Presence: Immersive Experience Workbook for UX ers, Filmmakers, Artists, and Content Creators provides the foundation for a broader understanding of the impact of XR as the next medium. The methods presented draw from a wide range of disciplines and professional practice to provide a practical guide to methods, production techniques, best practices, and terminology that provides an effective road map for developing immersive experiences using augmented reality, virtual reality, augmented virtuality, and other emerging immersive media forms. In this book, media ers Peter (Zak) Zakrzewski and David Tamés present a comprehensive framework for XR media experience (XRXD) that will allow UX ers, filmmakers, artists, and content creators to connect their audiences to rich, multimodal, immersive experiences for entertainment, learning, creating, and healing. This book guides the reader through a 12+1-step -based model for creating XR experiences. Each step is accompanied by specific media methods expressly created for or adapted to XR content creation. The theoretical concepts and methods covered address the specific context and meaning aspects of the XR media environments being created.