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New Techniques.- Under Construction in Europe: Virtual and Mixed Reality for a Rich Media Experience.- Generation of True 3D Films.- Spatial Sound Enhancing Virtual Story Telling.- The VISIONS Project.- Programming Agent with Purposes: Application to Autonomous Shooting in Virtual Environment.- Interactive Immersive Transfiction.- Authoring Tools.- Interactive Storytelling: People, Stories, and Games.- An Authoring Tool for Intelligent Educational Games.- Generation and Implementation of Mixed-Reality, Narrative Performances Involving Robotic Actors.- A New Form of Narration.- Film and the Development of Interactive Narrative.- Virtual Storytelling as Narrative Potential: Towards an Ecology of Narrative.- Adaptive Narrative: How Autonomous Agents, Hollywood, and Multiprocessing Operating Systems Can Live Happily Ever After.- Virtual Characters.- Learning in Character: Building Autonomous Animated Characters That Learn What They Ought to Learn.- Real Characters in Virtual Stories.- Real-Time Character Animation Using Multi-layered Scripts and Spacetime Optimization.- Characters in Search of an Author: AI-Based Virtual Storytelling.- Virtual Agents’ Self-Perception in Story Telling.- Applications.- Reflections from a Hobby Horse.- DocToon© — A Mediator in the Hospital of the XXIst Century.- The Interplay between Form, Story, and History: The Use of Narrative in Cultural and Educational Virtual Reality.- Virtual Storytelling of Cooperative Activities in a Theatre of Work.- Virtual Storytelling for Training: An Application to Fire Fighting in Industrial Environment.- Computer Animation and Virtual Reality for Live Art Performance.- Virtual House of European Culture: e-AGORA.