KAIST gives 3D comic characters room to move

A comic character’s next line appears only when the reader looks directly at them, as three-dimensional figures, speech bubbles and sound effects appear nearby. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an extended reality platform that turns comics and webtoons into spatial experiences shaped by a reader’s gaze, movement and physical surroundings. KAIST said Tuesday that its ComiXR platform was designed to explore how digital comics could move beyond f