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ubercore · 2012-06-19 12:48:52+00:00

The actual presentation video shows a real device in use. I found that much more compelling than the strange video on the site.

dzlobin | karma 4319 | avg karma 7.62 · | 2014-03-18 14:04:30

He means that it may be a real device prototype, but the video is added in post.

MikeCapone | karma 14149 | avg karma 4.54 · | 2013-03-20 10:19:31

There's a second video that has some 'making-of' images that show the projector working from a different angle. It seems real to me.

georgieporgie | karma 3898 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2011-10-11 18:05:47+00:00

The demo doesn't necessarily look fake, the video looks fake.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2009-09-24 05:10:46+00:00

Agreed, if they had a real device I'm sure the video would have been shot in a different way than. This is simply an animation of what it could look like, but I highly doubt it actually exists. Otherwise why have a computer animated hand do the actions, instead of a real one.

Or is this the new strategy, let's show something that looks like a fake when actually we have it.

Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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bnegreve | karma 2006 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2015-05-14 17:34:50

For some reason, I find the demonstration in this article far more convincing than the ones in the posted article.

CSMastermind | karma 6419 | avg karma 6.18 · | 2023-12-08 00:05:39

When I saw the demo I figured out that it wasn't live or real but the article does have some nice examples of exactly how it was faked which is good to see.

sandsmark | karma 150 | avg karma 3.75 · | 2016-12-04 13:13:14+00:00

The device in the videos is an actual prototype, an engineering verification sample from our ODM. And all the apps are real, functional apps.

There's no CGI in the product movie, we don't want to show anything we can't deliver.

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pokpokpok | karma 316 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2014-10-02 23:16:19+00:00

This video is much more convincing than the original post

brianbreslin | karma 3468 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2010-08-30 13:09:48+00:00

at the end it looks like a video of a real one.

danielh | karma 1592 | avg karma 5.41 · | 2010-11-29 15:32:37+00:00

I can confirm that the part of the video starting at 1:20 is actually airing as advertising on German TV.

It's nice to see that this is a real device and not just CGI.

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ErneX | karma 753 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2024-02-05 10:33:08

No, this is real footage captured from the device.

shadowmint | karma 3481 | avg karma 3.77 · | 2013-05-18 00:27:31+00:00

To be fair, they do have a real-video below the pitch video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o...) which is much more honest and realistic look at what's being developed.

This is actually pretty exciting tech, but it's going to be absolutely nothing like what they have to show in the pitch video.

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ShamelessC | karma 2803 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2023-12-10 21:26:30

The video is an actual live demo without any editing or other tricks involved and even includes reasonable mistakes and the code used. It is not close to real, it's just real.

yathern | karma 1533 | avg karma 4.38 · | 2022-09-11 10:52:20

They're saying that the attached video in the article is from a simulator training. The video is not of the real life usage that just occurred.

Mithaldu | karma 8182 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2014-06-06 23:03:50+00:00

I'd think if they had a product they'd actually demonstrate it in the video, instead of showing some fakery and then the inert product.

msie | karma 3297 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2012-07-12 10:41:39

I had my doubts about the controller being real, but they've mostly been dispelled by this video!

hfsktr | karma 459 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2015-07-02 09:55:38

This was the video I meant. I agree it looks good but not real. Kind of strange that something can be both when I was expecting it to look real, if that made sense.

ncmncm | karma 13951 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2022-09-01 20:34:58

If this one isn't real, they did a very convincing job of simulating it.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/VNztmK8bARc

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jstanley | karma 21075 | avg karma 4.59 · | 2018-02-09 12:51:21+00:00

Did you watch the whole thing?

The part where the chap at the end explains the purpose of the video? It's not supposed to make people think it's real.

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