How will SocialXR Transform Book Publishing?

With today’s release of the book Story Intelligence, why would the authors risk having their book launch within the emerging, but unproven media of SocialXR? Author, Rick Stone feels that the message of his book transcends media. His book was written to help reunite our society in this time of social isolation that has been fractured by the same social media that was meant to bring us together. With eXtending Reality (XR) socially, the content of his book can escape the confines of its bindings to engage people in unique and transformative ways through SocialXR.

He told the audience at his book launch on Tuesday that, “we have lost connection [with each other] because we stopped gathering around fires, real or metaphysical to tell, listen and to be enchanted by stories.” He quoted Pat Spate’s saying, “stories are the shortest distance between people.” He and his co-author, Scott Livengood, want to explore ways of how stories in SocialXR can help society “build Story Intelligence into our everyday lives.” The seven powers of stories described in their book can bring humanity into the equation of future media innovation and transform lives, institutions and societies.

The Host and Producer of the book launch, Youtopian, was able to span three diverse communication platforms into one event using SocialVR (Engage), teleconferencing (Zoom) and streaming service (YouTube). Master of Ceremony, Lisa Sibilia of Youtopian, was able to introduce the author in multiple simulated identities so to engage the audience across the different media platforms. This allowed multiple versions of the author to become his own tag team to field all the audience’s questions. 

The author’s company, StoryWork, will be working with Youtopian and Simiosys to stretch the use SocialXR to empower the world with Story Intelligence. With the lessons learned from this novel book launch, book publishing will not be able to be confined between linear pages or streams of audible podcasts. With SocialXR, the literary story of print media will be able to reach infinite possibilities by increasing the sociality of the story experience. The book will just be the spark to set fire to a continuous conversational story between author and audience and the agency of XR. 

The book Story Intelligence was released today and will certainly become a timeless publication about stretching the potential of human intelligence, imagination and innovation.