증강현실 스토리텔링의 인물 층위－<포켓몬GO>를 중심으로

Abstract

Augmented reality is a new storytelling form that demonstrates the possibility through the success of Pokémon GO, a technology that is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are "augmented." The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference between augmented reality storytelling and existing media storytelling by analyzing the character layers of the highly successful game Pokémon GO using augmented reality technology. For this purpose, this study examined the basic storytelling of the Pokémon GO, then divided the layers of the characters in the story, analyzed the characteristics of each character layer, and came to the following conclusions. First, the person participating in the Pokémon GO storytelling can be divided into characters in the game, game players, and non-players. Characters in the game -The virtual characters are subordinate to the players and the antagonist is not included. The players and the non-players are real people in the real world. The players becomes the speaker and the addressee, and also the protagonist of the story, leading the story from the beginning to the end. In addition, the role of non-players is limited, but it also has a decisive influence on the story. This point seems to be a differentiating point between augmented reality storytelling and existing media storytelling. Second, the characteristics of the characters mentioned above tend to obscure the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the storytelling of Pokémon GO, while enhancing the players' egocentrism and making the reality a tool and an obstacle. Furthermore, ego-centric storytelling evaporates the distancing of stories and causes egocentrism to expand into the real world without staying in the virtual world due to the vagueness of the real and virtual boundaries. And by doing so, it becomes instrumentalizing the world outside the game and obstructing the characters outside of the game. These conclusions are concerned with the side effects rather than the praise of the Pokemon GO. But new technologies necessarily have side effects and adaptation time. Augmented reality technology has just entered our daily lives and is going to make a brilliant future. I expect the evolution of the story, an impossible means of recognizing and understanding our lives through various narrative experiments in line with technology development.