Manga generator, a future of interactive manga media: invited talk paper

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 interactive manga while allowing other audiences to see advertisement video simultaneously using multiplex hidden image technology "ExPixel". In this research, we combined interactive comic generating system with full body motion detection and real time image processing technologies. It can attract non-audiences who are not interested in the video announcements thanks to players playing Manga Generator.