As a drama therapist, Stirling insists that the role play involved in playback is in a safer realm, one where distance is provided by the format. In psychodrama, very strict standards of enactment are followed under the watchful eye of the therapist. This is briefly the idea of playback. It is a combination of storytelling and creative drama with a special twist in the problem-solving department. In the past hundred years, the dramatic arts have been translated through the less immediate media of movies and television.
Virtual Reality allows one to explore a computer-generated world by actually being in it.
Virtual reality is usually based on a graphic world, although film and video can be part of it. That is to say you become a part of that world, you can change it, and the changes occur as you make them. Needless to say, I am thoroughly intrigued by the possibility that storytelling, improvisa tions and the playback process could be carried out in a virtual world. Imagine if you will, a computer program that will allow a troupe of young storytellers to come together in a virtual arena. Here they will be guided by a conductor in the playback process.