Exploring the possibilities of the creative potentials of XR, this paper traverses one artist’s creative history of working with emergent spatial technologies including Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Extended Reality, with applied instances examined within the scope of this grounding. Two projects in particular are examined: Perpetual Nomads, an interstitial Virtual Reality Episode of the Inanimate Alice digital story series, and V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series, a example of digital literature designed and developed in Virtual Reality where each individual microstory, or vignette, is designed to encourage a kind of ‘narrative smearing’ where traditional story techniques are truncated and mutated into smears (kinetic actions and mechanics, collagelike layered building blocks, visual distortions, dual-tiered text annotations) that require a reader/interactor to make active choices in order to navigate each microstory space.
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