• what are some useful ways this story can be told?
• what are storytelling techniques that align with the subject matter.

Virtual Reality (with HMDs) breaks the fourth wall. Rather than looking at the movie, viewers can be in the movie/game/play/documentary . With respect to the subject of space environmentalism and the challenges (see above) of making people care/ engage with the subject this may be useful.

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Virtual Reality (specifically 360 video for VR) is but one way to immerse an audience.

Physical interactive storytelling experiences have proven extremely successful vehicles for storytelling. Presence is very real and immediately achieved

• communal experience (players/ viewers cans see each other)
• docents/ actors are very effective in engaging the audience
• the physical environment can be create to achieve a cohesive reality that adheres to the logic of the world portrayed
• tactile interaction is very successful in create presence→immersion→agency

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examples:

War Remains - VR plus physical tactile journey - you can touch and feel what you see!

Dan Carlin's War Remains VR Experience Puts You In The Trenches Of WWI - VRScout

We ( J.E. Johnson and myself) developed and realized this escape room experience last fall, based on the threats identified by the planet Texas 2050 initiative and interviews with researchers and scientists.

Texas Cannot Escape Climate Change: Students Build an Extreme Weather Escape Room | Texas Performing Arts - The University of Texas at Austin

Podcast/ audio experiences

narrated audio experiences allow the listener to imagine the world of the story