Thief of truth: VR comics about the relationship between AI and humans

In one sentence

First-person VR comic about a mind-uploaded human and an AI searching for the meaning of life; experiments with VR comics through view control, controller interaction and accessibility.

Abstract

Thief of Truth is a first-person perspective Virtual Reality (VR) comic that explores the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). The work tells the story of a mind-uploaded human being reborn as a new subject while interacting with an AI that is looking for the meaning of life. In order to experiment with the expandability of VR comics, the work was produced by focusing on three problems. First, the comic is designed using the viewing control effect of VR. Second, through VR controller-based interaction, the player's immersion in the work is increased. Third, a method for increasing accessibility to VR comics was devised. This work aims to present an example of an experimental attempt in VR Comics.

Source: arXiv:2506.10012

When this paper is relevant

• You study VR comics or narrative form in VR
• You need artworks about AI–human relations or mind uploading
• You look for gaze/viewing control techniques replacing comic panels in VR

Related

• Artwork: Thief of Truth

Cite

Joonhyung Bae (2023). Thief of truth: VR comics about the relationship between AI and humans. Proc. 29th Int. Symp. on Electronic Art (ISEA), Paris, France, Jul. 16–23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.69564/isea2023-42-full-bae-thief-of-truth

@inproceedings{Bae2023thief,
  title = {Thief of truth: VR comics about the relationship between AI and humans},
  author = {Joonhyung Bae},
  booktitle = {Proc. 29th Int. Symp. on Electronic Art (ISEA), Paris, France, Jul. 16–23, 2023},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.69564/isea2023-42-full-bae-thief-of-truth},
  eprint = {2506.10012},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.69564/isea2023-42-full-bae-thief-of-truth}
}

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