Showcase — Cinema
Ten genres, one face
The Cinema world casts the guest as the lead. Ten moments, ten genres, one face that never changes. In the lobby, the poster stops describing the film and starts putting the audience inside it.
The world
A lobby that casts its audience
Cinema is one of seven brand worlds built for the Manifest Mirror. It holds ten moments — ten genres — and the guest can move between them without stepping away from the glass. Wardrobe, setting and light change on every switch. The face does not.
Ten genres
Action, superhero, fantasy, thriller, space, animation, romance, comedy, historical epic and noir. Each moment carries its own costume, its own set and its own grade, written as a prompt layer in Manifest Studio.
How worlds are builtOne face
Identity lock keeps the guest's face, proportions and expression intact while everything around them is rewritten. Friends recognise the person in the mirror before they recognise the genre.
Identity & AIOne souvenir
The session is recorded and delivered by email once the guest steps away. They leave the foyer with a short film of themselves in the genre they chose, and the venue leaves with a consented contact.
The mirror unitThe moment set
Ten moments, one session
Every brand world ships as ten moments. A guest rarely tries them all in ninety seconds — three is the usual number — which is exactly why the tenth moment brings them back to the queue.
Cinema world, full-world mode
Full world
The set arrives around the guest
In full-world mode the foyer gives way to the scene. Rain, rooftops, starlight and torchlight are generated live around the person standing in front of the mirror, in continuous video rather than a still frame with a filter applied.
- Background replaced. Carpet, queue and signage disappear; the genre takes the room.
- Wardrobe matched to the moment. Armour, flight suit, trench coat — cut to the guest's own proportions.
- Light that belongs to the scene. The grade follows the genre, so the recording reads as footage, not as a costume photo.
- Movement carries. The guest turns, the scene turns with them, frame after frame.
Switching moments mid-session
Switching
Three genres in ninety seconds
The guest pairs a phone by scanning the QR code on the mirror, then drives the session from their hand. Moments change without a queue attendant, without an app install and without anyone touching the glass.
- Phone as remote. Pairing runs through qr.manifestmirror.com in the browser the guest already has open.
- Outfit only, when the lobby should stay. The venue can keep the real foyer behind the guest and change the costume alone.
- Ninety seconds by default. Long enough for three genres and a recording, short enough that the queue keeps moving.
- Recording by email. Delivered after the session, not at the mirror, so the next guest steps in immediately.
UI look
Cinema wears Noir
Every world is dressed by a UI look: the typography, colour and motion of the interface the guest touches. Cinema ships with Noir — black ground, restrained type, slow fades — so the screen furniture disappears and the scene carries the room. Nine looks are available, and a venue can switch look without rebuilding the world.
| World | Cinema — demonstration concept |
|---|---|
| Moments | 10, switchable during a single session |
| Modes | Full world, or outfit only where the foyer should stay visible |
| UI look | Noir (nine looks available) |
| Formats | 9:16, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 |
| Session | 90 seconds by default, configured centrally for the fleet |
| Remote | Guest's phone, paired by QR code |
| Delivery | Recording by email after the session |
| Retention | Recordings deleted after 7 days, email deliveries after 30 days |
The session
What ninety seconds looks like
From the far side of the foyer to the email in the inbox, the whole sequence runs without staff intervention. A member of the team is useful at the rope, not at the screen.
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Attract
Between guests the mirror runs its attract loop: fragments of the ten genres, the invitation to step closer, and the QR code. From a distance it reads as a moving poster.
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Pair
The guest scans the code and their phone becomes the remote. No download, no account. Consent and the AI notice are shown before the camera is used.
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Perform
The transformation holds while they move. They switch genres from the phone — usually noir, then space, then superhero — and the mirror follows each change in continuous video.
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Take it home
The session ends, the recording is assembled and delivered by email, and the mirror returns to attract mode for the next guest in the queue.
Afterwards
What the guest takes home
A film, not a flyer
The recording shows the guest as the lead of a genre they picked themselves. It is watched, kept and shown to other people, because the subject is the person holding the phone.
- Delivered by email. Nothing to collect at the mirror, nothing to print.
- The guest's own. The person in the recording owns the moment they made.
- Time-limited storage. Recordings are deleted after 7 days, deliveries after 30.
What the venue gets
A foyer attraction that measures itself. Sessions, completions, moments chosen and recordings delivered are reported per unit, so a release can be read by genre rather than by guesswork.
- Consent first. Contact details exist only because the guest asked for the film.
- Genre signal. The moments guests choose say something about the audience in the building.
- No app, no staffing. The mirror runs in kiosk mode, unattended, all day.
A screen that only asks for attention is advertising. A screen that hands something back is media worth standing in front of.
Manifest Media manifesto
More worlds
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Cinema is one of the worlds built to show what the platform does. Each is ten moments deep, and any of them can run on the same mirror.
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Summit
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Nike
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Cinema is a demonstration concept built for the Manifest Mirror platform. The genres shown are original scenes made to demonstrate the format; they do not depict, reference or imply a relationship with any studio, distributor or title. Guests see an AI notice before the camera is used. See AI transparency and privacy.