A VR Interactive Story Using POV and Flashback for Empathy

In this paper we introduce our ongoing project to design and implement an interactive storytelling in VR. Our particular design intent is to invoke narrative empathy through two narrative devices - change of POV (Point of View) and flashback. Focusing on narrative empathy, we explore design considerations for our project, including story, characters and objects, events and space of possibility, focalization (or POV), flashback and VR implementation.