Reimagining Mythology with Virtual Reality: Postmodernist Techniques for Immersive Retellings in Educational Platforms
Traditional narratives has been redefined by virtual reality that transform the way of experiencing mythology through interactive and immersive storytelling. The study explores the postmodernist techniques including nonlinear storytelling, intertextuality and fragmentation that can be applied for retelling in educational platforms for mythological stories. Ability of virtual reality in multi-sensory engagement reimagine the mythologies to provide personalised and participatory experience to the learners and fosters deep critical thinking and cultural understanding. The study examines the role of virtual reality in re-imagining mythology in educational platform through analysis of various existing platform and case studies to integrate AI-driven interactions, adaptive narratives and gamifications. The study findings show the digital retelling the postmodernist techniques with virtual reality. VR act as a powerful tool in modernised myth making positioned with dynamic medium to bridge the past, present and future using immersive learning experience.
Authors
- Yvon Mae H. Tabuena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-7615)
- Almighty C. Tabuena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5875-3617)
- Rajeev Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5615-0361)
- M. Subramanian
- Vijay Karthic R
- Kaustubh Pandurang Jadhav
Institutions
- Madurai Medical College (IN)
- Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (IN)
- IMS Unison University (IN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-02-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ce2ct64011.2025.10939597
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Digital Games and Media
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.20