I've always been a bit eh about magic with electronics but this really blew me away.
That last part, holy shit.
Half and half for me. Some were obvious like the first one and a few you could see him quickly turn on an app that emulated the home screen, but some like the milk was pretty cool.
Would have been more amazed if when he "drank" the coke, he spit some back out in a glass. But the photo was pretty cool. .
Masters of Illusion. That is a good amount of development work they did to that iPad. Nothing magical, all technical.
[QUOTE=BackSapper;47179543]Masters of Illusion. That is a good amount of development work they did to that iPad. Nothing magical, all technical.[/QUOTE]
What's next, magic isn't real?
[QUOTE=BackSapper;47179543]Masters of Illusion. That is a good amount of development work they did to that iPad. Nothing magical, all technical.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't necessarily have to be technical, most of the work could be a pre-rendered video played back on the device itself.
not the same picture but 5/10 for effort
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SB3O3Zo.jpg[/IMG]
Time to suck the fun out of magic!
Seems a bit excessive to bring this guy onto Ellen. It's just preredered videos, a few custom homescreen emulations, and the most basic sleight of hand tricks.
He even messed up multiple times during this.
-0:21 he has the screen on after pulling it out.
-1:40 when he does the straw trick, his friend's hand moves when the straw disappears. If you're getting brought onto Ellen for something like this I would think you'd at least try and make the cuts better. It amazes me how poor his timing "on facetime" was (talking over each other multiple times).
-Also I love at 2:20 when he mis-clicks the launcher app the first time and then has to do it again, bringing awareness to it.
-2:40 with the pen trick, even at 30fps, that pen is visible turning for a good four frames. Most good magicians are able to do things like that in a frame or less.
I think my favorite part was the selfie though.
When he took it:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/rDRdXiJ.png[/t]
The picture they printed warped and flipped to match the screen
[t]http://i.imgur.com/7y5LQ3e.png[/t]
Overlayed
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Sh4P4Z9.png[/t]
Angle is different, cropping is different, a big giveaway is the Ellen logo. If you look when he took the photos, you could see the screen the whole time and every photo he snapped had the logo in it. The reveal of the photo is either a simple shutter (probably spring loaded because of the noise) or the glass is coated with some form of privacy film (not that expensive).
From the noise it makes I'm going to say it's probably just spring loaded. He did make the apps for this demonstration so he has the knowledge of that, so my guess is he can figure out how to make a remote controlled release via an arduino or something that can take input from the iPad. Ellen also moves her finger off of something that looks like a button on the pen the same time as it switches, but that may be a reaction to the noise and not her triggering it.
[editline]20th February 2015[/editline]
Damnit gullegull I wasted 30 minutes on this stupid post doing the shop and everything and you just have to post the picture part one minute before I hit submit
[QUOTE=Pw0nageXD;47179638]Time to suck the fun out of magic!
Seems a bit excessive to bring this guy onto Ellen. It's just preredered videos, a few custom homescreen emulations, and the most basic sleight of hand tricks.
He even messed up multiple times during this.
-0:21 he has the screen on after pulling it out.
-1:40 when he does the straw trick, his friend's hand moves when the straw disappears. If you're getting brought onto Ellen for something like this I would think you'd at least try and make the cuts better. It amazes me how poor his timing "on facetime" was (talking over each other multiple times).
-Also I love at 2:20 when he mis-clicks the launcher app the first time and then has to do it again, bringing awareness to it.
-2:40 with the pen trick, even at 30fps, that pen is visible turning for a good four frames. Most good magicians are able to do things like that in a frame or less.
I think my favorite part was the selfie though.
When he took it:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/rDRdXiJ.png[/t]
The picture they printed warped and flipped to match the screen
[t]http://i.imgur.com/7y5LQ3e.png[/t]
Overlayed
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Sh4P4Z9.png[/t]
Angle is different, cropping is different, a big giveaway is the Ellen logo. If you look when he took the photos, you could see the screen the whole time and every photo he snapped had the logo in it. The reveal of the photo is either a simple shutter (probably spring loaded because of the noise) or the glass is coated with some form of privacy film (not that expensive).
From the noise it makes I'm going to say it's probably just spring loaded. He did make the apps for this demonstration so he has the knowledge of that, so my guess is he can figure out how to make a remote controlled release via an arduino or something that can take input from the iPad. Ellen also moves her finger off of something that looks like a button on the pen the same time as it switches, but that may be a reaction to the noise and not her triggering it.
[editline]20th February 2015[/editline]
Damnit gullegull I wasted 30 minutes on this stupid post doing the shop and everything and you just have to post the picture part one minute before I hit submit[/QUOTE]
Hahaha! You did point out some good things, but that simple picture was worth a thousand words!
looks like [I]some people[/I] are still salty that they didn't get an invitation to hogwarts
So what's up with the milk part, does that glass have two walls or something? It's kind of hard to tell what exactly is going on from that camera angle.
[QUOTE=Pw0nageXD;47179638]
Damnit gullegull I wasted 30 minutes on this stupid post doing the shop and everything and you just have to post the picture part one minute before I hit submit[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCBWiQp.jpg[/IMG]
I'll Give you 10/10 for your enthusiastic effort though!
that was crap..
just feels like a quirky ipad demo than believable illusion.
The picture in the frame and that he was showing on the iPad pretending to swipe to it wasn't the same as the one he "took" which kind of spoiled it. Penn and Teller would have found a way to do it.
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