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Laurence wrote on 7/25/2014, 6:11 PM
Looking at it again, I believe that they also have some sort of subwoofer that they didn't show to shake the room and add to the illusion. You can see a glass of water in one of the shots vibrating like crazy, and there is some camera shake that I don't believe was added as an effect.
VMP wrote on 7/25/2014, 6:11 PM
Lol.

But they are staged actors I am guessing, usually they are :-).
Would the floor have vibrated as well?

VMP
ushere wrote on 7/25/2014, 6:20 PM
i think you'd have to have pretty poor spatial perception to mistake a screen (even at 4k) for reality....
ChristoC wrote on 7/25/2014, 7:30 PM
Get a grip on reality!
That wasn't a prank, it was an advertisement.
Steve Mann wrote on 7/25/2014, 10:46 PM
You were expecting a UHD screen, so you couldn't fall for the prank. The "guests" were not. They thought they were looking out of a window so that was their reality.
Laurence wrote on 7/26/2014, 9:35 AM
The "unsuspecting victims" may well have been just actors playing that role for the ad. The TV could also have been more than 4k resolution. I just guessed on that because that is the most resolution I expect. This video is off a Pakistani website, and in the Middle East, bomb attacks are not suck a stretch of the imagination as they would be for most of us here.
Tim Stannard wrote on 7/26/2014, 10:23 AM
I don't think it's meant to be a bomb, rather a meteorite. it's "burning up" as it flies through the atmosphere. A "bomb" would be totally tasteless.
Laurence wrote on 7/26/2014, 10:27 AM
That or an alien attack...scary as heII in any case!
Serena Steuart wrote on 7/26/2014, 7:33 PM
Actually the trick would have been obvious immediately, most likely while the"applicants" were walking into the room. Admittedly they might be so concentrated on the coming interview that the "window" might not be observed, but as soon as one moved their head they would see that the scene didn't move relative to the window frame (let alone when they moved their body). These are basic cognitive cues. And it is unlikely that the screen was anywhere near the brightness of an actual outdoor scene. I judge it an advertisement using actors.
Chienworks wrote on 7/27/2014, 12:50 PM
Agreed. I think had i been one of the interviewees probably my first thought on seeing the incoming bomb/meteor would have been, "hey, that's a nice TV". The lack of 3D would have been obvious near instantaneously.
Laurence wrote on 7/27/2014, 10:00 PM
How much of that 3d effect would you get from looking out the window of a skyscraper where everything was quite a distance away? I imagine it would be minimal. The next time I'm in one I'll try to remember to look. ;-)
PeterDuke wrote on 7/27/2014, 11:09 PM
Yes. Distant skyscrapers would not appear to move when you did, but a true window onto them would apparently move in the opposite direction. It should be obvious that something was wrong if you looked deliberately at the skyscrapers in the TV and moved sideways.

The other thing is that the view seems to be from a skyscraper quite some distance from the other skyscrapers. Skyscrapers tend to be crammed together. I would have expected to also see some skyscrapers close by.