TY - GEN
T1 - Around the Virtual Campfire
T2 - Early UX Insights into AI-Generated Stories in VR
AU - Gatti, Elia
AU - Giunchi, Daniele
AU - Numan, Nels
AU - Steed, Anthony
PY - 2025/2/26
Y1 - 2025/2/26
N2 - Virtual Reality (VR) presents an immersive platform for storytelling, allowing narratives to unfold in highly engaging, interactive environments. Leveraging AI capabilities and image synthesis offers new possibilities for creating scalable, generative VR content. In this work, we use an LLM-driven VR storytelling platform to explore how AI-generated visuals and narrative elements impact the user experience in VR storytelling. Previously, we presented AIsop, a system to integrate LLM-generated text and images and TTS audio into a storytelling experience, where the narrative unfolds based on user input. In this paper, we present two user studies focusing on how AI-generated visuals influence narrative perception and the overall VR experience. Our findings highlight the positive impact of AI-generated pictorial content on the storytelling experience, highlighting areas for enhancement and further research in interactive narrative design.
AB - Virtual Reality (VR) presents an immersive platform for storytelling, allowing narratives to unfold in highly engaging, interactive environments. Leveraging AI capabilities and image synthesis offers new possibilities for creating scalable, generative VR content. In this work, we use an LLM-driven VR storytelling platform to explore how AI-generated visuals and narrative elements impact the user experience in VR storytelling. Previously, we presented AIsop, a system to integrate LLM-generated text and images and TTS audio into a storytelling experience, where the narrative unfolds based on user input. In this paper, we present two user studies focusing on how AI-generated visuals influence narrative perception and the overall VR experience. Our findings highlight the positive impact of AI-generated pictorial content on the storytelling experience, highlighting areas for enhancement and further research in interactive narrative design.
KW - large language model
KW - VR
KW - storytelling
KW - generative AI
U2 - 10.1109/AIxVR63409.2025.00027
DO - 10.1109/AIxVR63409.2025.00027
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9798331521585 (PoD)
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
SP - 136
EP - 141
BT - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR)
PB - IEEE
ER -