Intro

What is Entertainment Technology?

What is Entertainment Technology?

The New  Poetics

The Matrix

Synthetic Characters

Furby

Hallmarks of Interactive Entertainment

What is Evolutionary  Within the Revolutionary?

Emotion drives usage of technology: SETI (3 million users)

Users, Actors, Players: Pick One

Users, Actors, Players: Pick One

Interactive Gaming

Non-linear storytelling

Virtual Worlds

Example

Disney Quest

Disney Quest

Mystical Elders

Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center:

The What and Why of Entertainment Technology

etc.cmu.edu