Möbius Book Experience
Prosumers driving enriched and immersive experiences
Möbius is creating new immersive ways of experiencing books. These innovations extend beyond the confines of traditional publishing to encompass entirely new enriched media experiences that will captivate audiences across Europe.
The Möbius experimental productions aim at demonstrating and validating the project value proposition through user-driven and enriched book experiences based on The influence of blue, the Italian novel by Giulio Ravizza, published by bookabook in 2019, and Fantasy into Möbius, the short story by Filippo Rubulotta which won the project’s Call for manuscripts in 2022.
The Möbius experimental productions consist of four elements: the immersive individual book experiences generated using the Möbius Book Creator and accessible through the Möbius Player, the Mobile Immersive Book Box, the VR experience, and the Möbius immersive book art installation (an immersive show created by Franz Fischnaller, Media Artist, and Rupert Huber, Sound Designer, produced by Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig).
Book 1: The Influence of blue
A fantasy story that deals with a world where the influence of the colour blue had to be eliminated to create a pacific living without passion and responsibilities. A society where humans are immersed into a hedonistic, decadent boring and flat state, where a general amnesia dominates over them and global knowledge is managed though “Intelligit”, a social networked-AI system.
Book 2: Fantasy into Möbius
In this story, a spaceship navigates a cybernetic tunnel and leads us to a laboratory filled with guarded cryogenic capsules. From these, Jack and Conrad emerge, encountering each other post cryo-sleep. Guided by a mysterious figure, they are soon presented with a captivating view of Earth, highlighting a scenic mountain landscape.
Möbius book experience
An immersive and interactive book experience through the Möbius Player, using binaural audio reproduction. Individual users will be able to use the Möbius app for immersive reading (text+ binaural audio) and enjoying the social interaction features.
Möbius Immersive Book Experience
An immersive digital audio visual art installation focusing on the challenge to explore how a book can become immersive has been created in the form of a 22 minute for Influence of blue presentation and 8 minutes for “Fantasy into Möbius” combining digital animation, 2D and 3D characters, visual effects, 3D models, compositing, motion graphics, arranged with music and special 3D spatial sound effects.
Möbius Immersive Book Box (MIBB)
The Mobile Immersive Book Box (MIBB) is a transportable 5m x 5m x 3m audiovisual space, allowing an immersive experience of the contents of a book. The immersive art installation is accompanied by its own sound track, specially composed to enhance the storytelling experience.
Möbius book VR experience
The contents have been adapted for VR-headsets so that they can provide convenient user-experiences without the need for any physical installation. The content has been adapted to the Head Mounted Displays (HMD) to provide users the full 360 immersive audiovisual experience without the need for any physical installation. These VR experiences will be made available for download so that users can experience them with their own VR headsets. They will contribute to the validation of Möbius’ flexible approach, which focuses on connecting books with different media products to maximize their dissemination potential.
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