Augmenting Learning through VR Storytelling

This paper presents a narrative instructional model as an interaction framework in a Virtual Reality environment. Virtual Reality solutions provide the means to present a storytelling scenario through visual interactive models. The proposed implementation consists of a VR prototype developed to assist kindergarten and primary school pupils, in assimilating knowledge about different types of musical instruments, while developing a sense of practice-based interaction. The application is structured on three levels; each level is represented by an element of nature (water, earth and air), corresponding to the know-how complexity: water or level 0 which reflects an elementary level of intrinsic knowledge; towards the "air environment" that reflects the level of cumulative knowledge that will be reached by the end of the game. Knowledge is assimilated by interacting with elements in the virtual environment and by following the annotated guidelines.