ABSTRACT
The origins of immersive theater go back to the beginnings of modern theater in the 19th century. The installation work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller has offered concepts and ideas of interest to immersive creators. Headphones provided audio for the film once it began but also audience intrusions such as ringing from cell phones and whispers of conversation. Another industry that has driven audience expectations for the immersive is that of the theme parks. Experiential attractions have offered visitors the opportunity to move from being simple spectators to active participants in adventure and relatively safe from risk-motion sickness notwithstanding. Nonlinear storytelling occurs when narrative events are portrayed out of chronological order or in ways such that the events do not follow a structure where effects are the direct result of causality. The structure and recall of human memory is often nonlinear, and this category of story is often meant to mimic that process.
