Remote Cultural Experience - pt2

So I've established what I don't want

what about some ideas towards something that might work, something to prototype?

What are the elements of cultural immersion that make it so valuable for learning a language?
- hearing and seeing the language in context, in abundance
- deprivation from native language
- offers/forces linguistic interactions, which reinforce speaking and listening skills in relevant, practical situations

lets evaluate some ideas that serve as alternatives to the previously mentioned VR idea


japanese media on-line + [?technology?] = idea?

japanese media on-line + game system + [?delivery?] = idea?

japanese media on-line + animation + game system = idea?


Making a game out of the concept brings into the question of whether the level of immersion the user will experience

- if the project brings cultural immersion to the user's everyday life and alters his or her typical surroundings (i.e. some sort of augemented reality setup), the user will gain some element of the "forced" nature of listening and reading when actually immersed in the foreign culture.

- if the project is a game, in which the user must set aside time to sit down and engage in the narrative, then the project lacks integration into the user's daily life and produces a "shallower" immersive experience. The user can always save and exit the digital environment whenever he or she pleases...

- (which is true for the previous scenario, yet the idea would be to bring the game to other, realworld activities so the user would not have to quit the game to be productive in some other field.)