Manga Generator, a future of interactive manga media

Abstract

This article contributes to the realization of an immersive role playing manga generating advertising system named \Manga Generator". The project began as a student virtual reality project and had underwent various collaborations with professional manga artists and governmental agencies. It was exhibited at many international exhibitions and is currently a permanent exhibition in a museum. The latest version \MGV" is a new advertising entertainment system that enables up to two players to engage in role playing in- teractive manga while allowing other audiences to see adver- tisement video simultaneously using multiplex hidden image technology "ExPixel". In this research, we combined inter- active comic generating system with full body motion de- tection and real time image processing technologies. It can attract non-audiences who are not interested in the video an- nouncements thanks to players playing Manga Generator.