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You seem to be right; look at the smoke trails closely and how they go through the looping’s track surface.Quote:
Originally Posted by Temet
Apart from that it looks really, really good and I did not spot the CGI at first.
Then, on the other hand, this technology is possible already.
Told ya so. :P
In all seriousness, it's good to see that this actually can work. Can see a lot of use for it, that's for sure.
The smoke is weird, but I wouldn't call it a fake just yet. You see, that is liquid nitrogen condensating. It's lighter than air so any air displacement caused by the ships will affect the nitrogen smoke. And you can see that the size of the wind vortex corresponds to the size of the ship's frontal cross section.
Here's a video that shows the smoke when filling a cup with liquid N2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_JeAuJpMis
and a much better one with rapid motion of an object that shoots out N2 gas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvatmPlKOYQ
That's what I thought the first time I watched it but if you go to 1.14 I think it is you can see the smoke trails going over the foreground in a CG only kind of way.
The tech is real but this video is not.
Really obviously, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhay
From the shaky cam, to the scrambled name badge, to the "Japanese Institute of Technology" *cough* having a GMail address.
The augmented reality ships done with the Vita look more realistic, although the track looks neat, I'll give them that! :)
Xpand - Skip to about 0:45 when you see the controller for the first time. If you look around the edges of the controller, you can see the track disappearing. It's a definite fake unfortunately.
However, it's generated a ton of traffic for my Through The Ages video so I'm not complaining! ;)
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Well, weirdly enough, the info they give on the beggining is correct... And, like the quantum locking demonstration of that round magnet track with the supercooled disk, this could be done the same way...
@bom: There´s a difference between producing a fake video to obviously entertain people and trying to kid them by pretending it´s real. Just my 2 cents...
It´s a nice imagination anyway, so I don´t take it amiss. :)
Although the video is a fake (unfortunately), it was really well done, and also, the possibility is still real and maybe in 30 years or so we could watch AG races for real. ;)
On the other hand, that video has the power to be rewatched, whether fake or not; don't doubt it. ^^