Nikola Kunzová is a first-year PhD Student at Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Her research is focused on enhancing the reading experience with virtual reality. Through prototyping, she aims to find a balanced fusion of the traditional reading experience, digital narratives, and extended realities. The goal is to use the findings to create a basis for a new appealing reading genre.

Bookwander is a VR reading application which presents four different approaches to adapting written fiction for virtual reality. Each approach has a unique characteristic – for example, kinetic typography, placeable illustrations, spatial immersion, or world interactions. This prototype reimagined four short passages from the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea for the context of VR.