Virtual Storyteller - Allows You To Influence The Course of Events

Nowadays electronic book is a tool to display static information, so the reader can not influence the course of events in the story that he reads at the moment. Just imagine if in the e-book of a new generation will become possible. The same composition can be read several times receiving a completely different story in each other case. The e-book "Virtual Storyteller" is that device of new generation created in by Ivo Swartjes  a scientist of Centre for Telematics and Information Technology of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The reader begins to play an active role reading this book and that he’s actions determine the story’s course of events in.

The key to the new e-book is intelligent software developed in way that the reader feels fully immersed in the composition. Naturally, the composer must prepare his story considering all possible and unexpected turns of events. "Virtual Storyteller" like an ordinary e-book is a computer system that is additionally equipped with a special program for reading interactive compositions. Thanks to that reader moves step by step on branched tree of predefined storylines.

In this new e-book the line between the composition and computer game starts to fade that leads to the formation of an absolutely new class of interactive information. The reader as a player can have greater influence on the storyline than it is possible in most modern computer games. Ivo Swartjes sees the possibility of applying the "Virtual Storyteller" broader than just the area of entertainment and leisure. With it you can produce great interactive learning materials, simulate a solution of problems appeared in certain areas and much more. It is supposed that the technology of "Virtual Storyteller" will become available publicly and will take a strong position in various fields of applications after five years.