Why not combine that with head tracking so you don't have to put the camera in the right spot? Maybe you could give someone honorable mention in the Darwin Awards for thinking it was real (i.e. throwing a smoke at the monitor) or something (One woman with a sailboat once got honorable mention for failing to remove the trailer hitch before complaining to the coast guard that the boat was too slow, so it's not like you have to have a near death experience)
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Um. It is real.
You think someone went through the trouble of making an image to place on his screen that would then have to be viewed from a specific place *with a camera with a flash* (there is a shadow inside the monitor), instead of say, simply photoshopping the whole thing or possibly even actually making an ashtray out of an old monitor?
I agree, This thing is a photoshopped image. If you remove the CRT of these monitors, you'd just get the outermost case, meaning that thing would have to be bigger inside that what they are showing here and besides the lighter doesn't seem to be correctly oriented. I expect the lighter to be either inside or slanted at the edge and the string holding it is not really straight...
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Why not combine that with head tracking so you don't have to put the camera in the right spot? Maybe you could give someone honorable mention in the Darwin Awards for thinking it was real (i.e. throwing a smoke at the monitor) or something (One woman with a sailboat once got honorable mention for failing to remove the trailer hitch before complaining to the coast guard that the boat was too slow, so it's not like you have to have a near death experience)
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