Purikura are the sticker-photo booths of Japanese arcades. For JAIF’s 20th anniversary exhibition at Plaza Senayan, we built one around JABOT, the event mascot: guests step up to a tall touchscreen, JABOT and friends join them live on screen, and a few minutes later they walk away with a framed print and their photos on their phone.
01At the Booth
Four screens, about two minutes. Recorded from the booth software itself.
Four frame designs, each previewed with a different JABOT line-up.
A countdown, a flash, and the shot drops into the strip. JABOT, leaves and cheek flags follow every face live.
Tap the four best. The order you tap is the order they print.
One tap sends the framed print to the queue; the QR code opens your photos and video.
02The Print
Four shots in a 4R frame, made by the booth and printed at the reception desk while the guest walks over.
03Two Ways to Play
The same JABOT, built twice: once for a kiosk in a mall, once for any phone.
A full session in one run: frame, six shots with JABOT, pick four, then print and QR. It runs as a locked-down kiosk app, returns home on its own when a guest walks away, and keeps a local backup of every session.
For everyone who couldn’t make it to Plaza Senayan. Open the link, grow a leaf on your head, swap in the ribbon “Threads” or an ASEAN JABOT, and tap to change country - the flag on your cheek changes with it.
04After the Shot
Every session uploads in the background: the QR opens a personal download page, and the team sees every session in an admin view.
05Under the Hood
A booth runs all day, with strangers, on modest hardware. These are the parts that made that work.
The camera cuts each guest out of the background, so JABOT and Kibot can sit behind people while leaves and flags sit on top - the same trick as a filter’s “ghost behind you”.
Head and face tracking puts a leaf on every head and flags on every pair of cheeks, one ASEAN and one country, even with a family squeezed in.
The live view draws in plain 2D, no 3D engine, and the video is stitched from the shots as stop motion. Smooth on an office-grade mini PC.
The booth queues each framed print; a small agent on the reception laptop pulls it over the event hotspot and prints silently. If the network drops, jobs wait and print when it’s back.
06On Site
A Time Travel Exhibition, 11-13 September 2026. Planned in 3D, then a queue from the first morning.
07Our Work
More from the same exhibition, and other campaigns built to get people playing.
Bring the idea, or just the problem. We'll shape the experience and build the engine behind it.
