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Natural user input for driving interactive stories

  • US 8,381,108 B2
  • Filed: 06/21/2010
  • Issued: 02/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a system comprising a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user motion and an audiovisual device for displaying images and/or providing audio, a method of combining interactive gaming aspects into a linear story, comprising:

  • a) presenting the linear story via the audiovisual device using at least one of images and an audio narrative, the linear story having a default story and an altered story, the default story including a default set of images and/or narrative that is presented to a user if a user does not interact with the story;

    b) detecting at least one of a movement and a voice command by a user via the capture device;

    c) identifying whether the movement and/or the voice command detected in said step b) is an interaction with the linear story that alters the linear story to include a story branch having at least one of additional images and additional narrative not included in the default set of images and/or narrative; and

    d) altering the linear story to the altered story by presenting at least one of the additional images and additional narrative to a user via the audiovisual device.

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