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

TL;DR

Thief of Truth is an experimental VR comic exploring human-AI relationships through immersive storytelling, interactive controls, and enhanced accessibility to expand VR comics' potential and audience engagement.

Contribution

It introduces novel VR storytelling techniques focusing on viewing control, interaction, and accessibility to advance VR comics as an experimental art form.

Findings

Enhanced immersion through VR controller interaction

Innovative viewing control effects in VR comics

Improved accessibility features for VR comic consumption

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.