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Location-Based Mixed

and Augmented

Reality Storytelling

Ronald Azuma

11.1 MOTIVATION

One of the ultimate uses of mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) will be

to enable new forms of storytelling that enable virtual content to be connected in

meaningful ways to particular locations, whether those are places, people, or objects.

By AR, I refer to experiences that superimpose or composite virtual content in

3D space directly over the real world, in real time (Azuma, 1997). However, this

chapter also includes a broader range of MR experiences that blend real and virtual

in some manner but may not require precise alignment between the two ...