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.