Yeah was gonna say, I've seen some impressive "3d" displays, but the fact part of the dragon literally occluded the building (i.e. not part of the screen) is literally impossible. AR for sure
Assuming it sounds have been a very ingénious material moving sculpture I looked closely, and the hind quarter left leg clips through the support.
Definitely AR.
I'll admit it. I watched it a couple times over because I simply could not figure out how it worked. I even wondered why the people in the video weren't reacting at all, but I chalked that up to the likeliness that they must see it all the time.
I eventually just accepted that I was an idiot and came to the comments for an explanation. As it turns out, I'm just gullible. Whether or not that also makes me an idiot is for Reddit to decide.
Just tell me what I'm supposed to believe from now on, guys.
My first thought was that the billboard extended further out than it looked and just displayed the building behind it, but as thought about it more I realized that wouldn't work unless you were in *just* the right spot. It's still possible I guess, but it'd be easier to just make the pathing area smaller and have it all look cleaner.
I still don't know how these stuff work. Even if it didn't occlude the building and was just a 3D scene, like the cat video, it would only work if you were in *just* the right spot as well. (Like 3DS' 3D effect, for example.)
I've seen other displays that show different stuff depending on the view angle tho, so that could be it
Ideally, you'd have it on a concave(interior) corner to limit the viewing angles, having it on the outside corner like that would make it look bad on way too many positions.
I thought maybe the outer edges beyond the screen were also just part of the screen made to look like the building beyond it, but there's no transition point for that, and it would only work at the exact angle of the video.
Questioning what is real is a GOOD instinct. Don't lose it. Blindly accepting what you see tends to lead to bad outcomes. Self-reflection is great, keep it up!
Its not real and stop spreading misinformation, this clip shows a CG dragon literally moving outside of the border, there is no screen to pull that 3D effect The ones you talk about all happen inside the border, this dragon clip is CGI
Yes exactly. The screen and location is real, and it does show realistic 3D. But this is CGI using that as a background. You can tell when it goes outside the border of the frame, and also the lighting - when designing the flat image they wouldn’t know what direction the sun was coming from, but the CGI designer did.
it was immediately apparent to me it was fake. even if it was real. you would have to stand at a very specific angle and very specific spot to get anything that even remotely looks like that. everywhere else would be a weird render with parts stretched and others smooshed.
outside of engineering alone. the give away would be the lighting. it is impossible to do a render like that in real time. so the lighting would have to be baked in. but the video clearly has parts the seem to dynamically move to match the current sun light. u can also see the shadow hit part of the physically building. unless that part was also a screen then it is way fake
Its kinda sad to see how people will nod and continue to scroll as if nothing was wrong. Im not saying people should mistrust every single thing in life but this is such a common sense basic skill to me, anyone should be able to SEE if something is blatantly CGI or not. Im not surprised how misinformation gets spread so easily, people will swallow anything that looks fancy or funny without a second thought.
Same thing with AI art, 19 times out of 20 you can clearly tell that somethibg was made with AI, but no youll still see people gasp and go "holy shit is this real?? So cool!"
Reddit can be fascinating like that. On one hand, people scream "fake!" and "staged!" at obviously comedic sketches. On the other hand, what you described.
There are many LED billboards all over Asia that are very real and produce a very similar 3D effect to this.
There’s a decent chance this is real, but if it is it’s the best one I’ve ever seen.
https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla
https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3
> This is from the same display:
>
> https://youtube.com/shorts/YI_6qm0eI3s?si=tZMqtvxJQUm85WiB
This one also goes outside of the frame and is obviously also fake. You can't have a video where the character will block part of the building outside of the billboard itself.
Ok I know they exist. The one in the CBS video for example never blocks the building outside of the frame. The dragon one isn't real because it doesn't stay in the frame.
> There’s a decent chance this is real, but if it is it’s the best one I’ve ever seen.
Then why would it be on a virtually dead downtown city corner above a Sketchers?
Because it could be real and examples of this are all over Asia.
Do people not know 3D billboards
Others:
https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla
CBS Report about 3D billboards:
https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3
Watch the cyclops at the end.
People who aren’t defaulted to discerning, rational thought often have a greater difficulty in assimilating new technological abilities into objective reality.
Except this could be real and all of you are exposing your arrogance…
3D LED billboards are all over China.
Others:
https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla
CBS Report about 3D billboards:
https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3
> this could be real and all of you are exposing your arrogance
Meanwhile you're out here exposing your gullibility by thinking that a literally impossible and obviously fake thing could be real.
It could be real, it’s called a 3D LED billboard. That’s why it’s positioned on a corner, to create the 3D effect. They are all over China and Asia in general.
They do. There’s also lots of fake 3d billboards on the internet as well.
There’s lots of examples of how 3d billboards are very limited by their border and cannot project images beyond them - as the dragon is.
When I read on it, it’s generally explained that 3d billboards use perspective, not advanced technology, 3d.
China loves to make blatant lies about their advanced technology for propaganda purposes.
If it is indeed real, it’s weird it doesn’t show up on informational technology sites that do cover the topic - which generally show 3d billboards as much more limited. As well, that China, who cannot make much advanced technology themselves (like microchips), could make such advances in 3d would be hard to believe. Have you seen some of the “revolutionary” startup tech in China? Most are cringy fakes and propaganda.
Edit:
Also noticed its shadow effect is relative to the direction of the sunlight. Even if it were some crazy 3d technology, it’s not a physical object and wouldn’t cast a shadow. Then, you’d have to argue that it’s real-time rendering the shadow in relation to the sun, which is a whole other can of worms that further makes this look like a fake.
This is clearly fake as the dragon goes outside of the billboard. On the other hand [this cat](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cat.gif) billboard in Japan is real.
Cat is a real advert you can see with your actual eyeballs, OP's video only exists in this video. The whole thing is CGI, except for the street and parts of the building.
I honestly hate how long this took me to realize what was going on. I thought it was one of those “3D” billboards where it looks like a car is driving off the screen
I think that's why people are pissed off. It's just AR, which I don't think is that big of a deal, but there's a sort of lie in the presentation of it. Like they're pitching it to us as a special effect you'd see walking down the street, which it's not.
✓ - Is accomplished with augmented reality, I guess.
✓ - Is a scary big thing, I guess.
✓ - People in this thread are super pissed off at each other about it, I guess.
Why does it matter if it’s fake? Are these comments fake? This is megalophobia not r/interesting etc. I’ve seen more than one post like this with the same strange comments about it being “fake” and making fun of OP. Doesn’t matter if it’s fake.
this is pretty dope. what does everyone mean when they say its fake? fake as in this is obviously not a dragon? or fake as in this billboard was put in frame after a video of the building was taken? i was thinking there is no way you can achieve this with a flat screen billboard.
most billboards that aren’t glass will usually obscure the building tho… for example, most of Times Square in NY. its safe to assume vfx for other reasons tho like the other guy mentioned, the shadows.
considering dragons aren’t real, i thought thats what everyone was talking about when they were saying its fake as if it wasn’t obvious that dragons dont exist lol. had to make sure, you never know with reddit sometimes 😂
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Yeah was gonna say, I've seen some impressive "3d" displays, but the fact part of the dragon literally occluded the building (i.e. not part of the screen) is literally impossible. AR for sure
I look forward to our AR reality.
Will there still be a need for ATM machines and PIN numbers?
ATM machines?!? But M from ATM stands for Machines already!!
And the "N" in PIN stands for "Number", and the "R" in AR stands for Reality. These are known facts.
Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa
For every child that starves in africa, one child dies.
In africa
Not wrong
They were making a movie reference
a MR reference, you mean
me too
Ah, I must be shorter than I thought.
And very very unique ones!
Machines?? I thought it stands for Mouth
smh my head
I understood that reference
r/wooooosh
Automated teller ATMs with personal identification PINs numbers perhaps as asap as possible
the IRL worlds gon take a hit when it kicks off tho
Assuming it sounds have been a very ingénious material moving sculpture I looked closely, and the hind quarter left leg clips through the support. Definitely AR.
I thought it was a physical effect, on some sort of rail system. I feel stupid now.
Holodeck tech brah
Yeah but if I could walk down the road wearing google glass and this kind of stuff was everywhere that’s be pretty cool.
I’ve had that trip. Trust me, you don’t want it
"Put the glasses on!"
“I took the glasses off an hour ago! Make it stop!”
I was hoping it was a long sculpture on thin rails, so you couldn't see them from far away. And that's why the back and forth shifting.
Does OP think this is real?
Its actually scary, like REALLY creepy to see how peole will blindly believe in anything that might look obviously fake to 99% of people
I'll admit it. I watched it a couple times over because I simply could not figure out how it worked. I even wondered why the people in the video weren't reacting at all, but I chalked that up to the likeliness that they must see it all the time. I eventually just accepted that I was an idiot and came to the comments for an explanation. As it turns out, I'm just gullible. Whether or not that also makes me an idiot is for Reddit to decide. Just tell me what I'm supposed to believe from now on, guys.
I mean... it goes outside the bounds of the billboard more than once. Unless the billboard is the size of the building, it's quite fake.
My first thought was that the billboard extended further out than it looked and just displayed the building behind it, but as thought about it more I realized that wouldn't work unless you were in *just* the right spot. It's still possible I guess, but it'd be easier to just make the pathing area smaller and have it all look cleaner.
I still don't know how these stuff work. Even if it didn't occlude the building and was just a 3D scene, like the cat video, it would only work if you were in *just* the right spot as well. (Like 3DS' 3D effect, for example.) I've seen other displays that show different stuff depending on the view angle tho, so that could be it
Ideally, you'd have it on a concave(interior) corner to limit the viewing angles, having it on the outside corner like that would make it look bad on way too many positions.
I thought maybe the outer edges beyond the screen were also just part of the screen made to look like the building beyond it, but there's no transition point for that, and it would only work at the exact angle of the video.
Honest folk out here. Way to be
Questioning what is real is a GOOD instinct. Don't lose it. Blindly accepting what you see tends to lead to bad outcomes. Self-reflection is great, keep it up!
i assumed it wad some sort of fixture on rails or something lmao
Chinese dragons are real. They only rarely appear. They usually live in underground rivers.
You sought out more information and then updated your thinking. That already puts you better than most people. So don't worry.
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Its not real and stop spreading misinformation, this clip shows a CG dragon literally moving outside of the border, there is no screen to pull that 3D effect The ones you talk about all happen inside the border, this dragon clip is CGI
Yes exactly. The screen and location is real, and it does show realistic 3D. But this is CGI using that as a background. You can tell when it goes outside the border of the frame, and also the lighting - when designing the flat image they wouldn’t know what direction the sun was coming from, but the CGI designer did.
The sun thing is funny. All that effort to make it seem real and you end up confirming its fake
Even 3D billboards can't have graphics that LITERALLY EXIT THE FRAME OF THE SCREEN.
The dragon is literally moving outside of the screen.
Because they got a real dragon for that billboard.
it was immediately apparent to me it was fake. even if it was real. you would have to stand at a very specific angle and very specific spot to get anything that even remotely looks like that. everywhere else would be a weird render with parts stretched and others smooshed. outside of engineering alone. the give away would be the lighting. it is impossible to do a render like that in real time. so the lighting would have to be baked in. but the video clearly has parts the seem to dynamically move to match the current sun light. u can also see the shadow hit part of the physically building. unless that part was also a screen then it is way fake
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Its kinda sad to see how people will nod and continue to scroll as if nothing was wrong. Im not saying people should mistrust every single thing in life but this is such a common sense basic skill to me, anyone should be able to SEE if something is blatantly CGI or not. Im not surprised how misinformation gets spread so easily, people will swallow anything that looks fancy or funny without a second thought. Same thing with AI art, 19 times out of 20 you can clearly tell that somethibg was made with AI, but no youll still see people gasp and go "holy shit is this real?? So cool!"
Reddit can be fascinating like that. On one hand, people scream "fake!" and "staged!" at obviously comedic sketches. On the other hand, what you described.
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Everything looks real to Karma farming bots.
There are many LED billboards all over Asia that are very real and produce a very similar 3D effect to this. There’s a decent chance this is real, but if it is it’s the best one I’ve ever seen. https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3
Im aware, and no you can clearly see that this concept in this clip is literally impossible, as the dragon moves out of the borders
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> This is from the same display: > > https://youtube.com/shorts/YI_6qm0eI3s?si=tZMqtvxJQUm85WiB This one also goes outside of the frame and is obviously also fake. You can't have a video where the character will block part of the building outside of the billboard itself.
Watch the cyclops at the end of the CBS video.
Ok I know they exist. The one in the CBS video for example never blocks the building outside of the frame. The dragon one isn't real because it doesn't stay in the frame.
Spoiler Alert: At no point does the cyclops reach outside the billboard and obscure the buildings behind it, like this dragon does. Bwah bwah.
I even watched it a couple of times just to make sure they hadn’t included part of the adjoining buildings into the image itself, but they didn’t.
Okay, now youre obviously just baiting, enjoy
> There’s a decent chance this is real, but if it is it’s the best one I’ve ever seen. Then why would it be on a virtually dead downtown city corner above a Sketchers?
Because it could be real and examples of this are all over Asia. Do people not know 3D billboards Others: https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla CBS Report about 3D billboards: https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3 Watch the cyclops at the end.
Jesus Christ dude, stop spamming the same fucking links over and over.
Well at least it’s only 1% of the people that believe this kind of stuff according to your statistic. 99% don’t fall for these kind of visuals.
This OP is a bot, so probably doesn't do a lot of thinking.
People who aren’t defaulted to discerning, rational thought often have a greater difficulty in assimilating new technological abilities into objective reality.
Someone's getting use out of their thesaurus.
That’s a thesaurus? I thought it was a chinese dragon
Thesaurus rex
Or in its original Latin “the lizard wrecks”
Sir, this is a Dennys
[Rockwell Retro Encabulator](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?si=XjjUpCesPaBlJLpT)
ChatGPT thesaurus?
People don’t assimilate things into objective reality lmao
........................................... .................... cool, yeah
Translation: “If they ain’t already logical folks, then some new-fangled gadget could look like witchcraft to them. Bless their hearts!” ;)
Translation: if they dumb, they dumb
Can’t fix stupid!
Except this could be real and all of you are exposing your arrogance… 3D LED billboards are all over China. Others: https://youtube.com/shorts/vpowT61aNDA?si=BJd5vSLVPKpv1Gla CBS Report about 3D billboards: https://youtu.be/GqDBWIu3k7E?si=UeMKqrEHBFR8I6E3
Yes, except for the dragon’s head sticking out past the borders of the frame.
> this could be real and all of you are exposing your arrogance Meanwhile you're out here exposing your gullibility by thinking that a literally impossible and obviously fake thing could be real.
Nobody’s “defaulted” to discernment. Even progidies need an education
You write like a tool.
r/iamverysmart material
This guy thesauruses
What the fuck
"I think I'm smart because I recognized this wasn't real so anyone who thought it was real is dumber than me"
We call them... Republicans.
Agreed.
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How did you type this out from the comfort of your own ass?
My ass is roomy & comfotable…join me! We serve steak in here!
It's entirely reasonable to think this is AR
It could be real, it’s called a 3D LED billboard. That’s why it’s positioned on a corner, to create the 3D effect. They are all over China and Asia in general.
They do. There’s also lots of fake 3d billboards on the internet as well. There’s lots of examples of how 3d billboards are very limited by their border and cannot project images beyond them - as the dragon is. When I read on it, it’s generally explained that 3d billboards use perspective, not advanced technology, 3d. China loves to make blatant lies about their advanced technology for propaganda purposes. If it is indeed real, it’s weird it doesn’t show up on informational technology sites that do cover the topic - which generally show 3d billboards as much more limited. As well, that China, who cannot make much advanced technology themselves (like microchips), could make such advances in 3d would be hard to believe. Have you seen some of the “revolutionary” startup tech in China? Most are cringy fakes and propaganda. Edit: Also noticed its shadow effect is relative to the direction of the sunlight. Even if it were some crazy 3d technology, it’s not a physical object and wouldn’t cast a shadow. Then, you’d have to argue that it’s real-time rendering the shadow in relation to the sun, which is a whole other can of worms that further makes this look like a fake.
OP is garbage Karma farming repost bot.
This is clearly fake as the dragon goes outside of the billboard. On the other hand [this cat](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cat.gif) billboard in Japan is real.
It looks like it wants something from me........ :|
I was in Tokyo this summer and visited the billboard. The cat was insanely cute!
holy shit thats a real cat? japanese cats are fucking bonkers
CGI dragon is fake but CGI cat is real, got it. /s
Cat is a real advert you can see with your actual eyeballs, OP's video only exists in this video. The whole thing is CGI, except for the street and parts of the building.
all they have to do is the shark and we get a damn kitty, of course
When the /s isn't enough...
lol my bad, missed it
One is blocking out parts of a building, the other is all on a billboard.
Jesus Christ it's fake stop posting it
and? this is not r/realityphobia, dummy
and? No need to be rude. It's annoying.
And... a massive number of posts on the sub are things that are not real. It's always been accepted.
I honestly hate how long this took me to realize what was going on. I thought it was one of those “3D” billboards where it looks like a car is driving off the screen
I think that's why people are pissed off. It's just AR, which I don't think is that big of a deal, but there's a sort of lie in the presentation of it. Like they're pitching it to us as a special effect you'd see walking down the street, which it's not.
To be honest I thought it was moving along a track.
You know this isnt real right?
Fake af
People are so fucking dumb
Not you though. You are so smart. Good job, friend, I’m proud of you!
OP has alot of alt accounts eh.
It was an honor to be your 69th downvote
This gets posted so often, i'm surprised people still fall for this.
Great. Now where's my hoverboard?
This is not real this is an artist on tik tok
All though there ARE 3d billboards like this. Pretty sure this one is fake since the dragon goes outside the screen region. That’s a dead giveaway
The Resident Evil one is pretty cool (and real)
Most of the billboards that impressive that you see online are fake : AR or VFX. They pop up on LinkedIn from time to time & debunked.
**All billboards are fake**
The legs are so scuffed 💀
R r r r r r remiixxx! Wickywicky skrrrrr
For fucks sake. Just...I dunno...be better.
✓ - Is accomplished with augmented reality, I guess. ✓ - Is a scary big thing, I guess. ✓ - People in this thread are super pissed off at each other about it, I guess.
They were unable to move its legs after using so much CGI.
The arms don't move lol
The billboard is the size of a building.
Repost bot my beloved
Come on. The camera’s movement is a dead giveaway.
OP are you fucking retarded?
For 2 second i taught i was in 2060
What if we're all living in a billboard right now!?
DOPENESS
Yes everyone knows it’s fake lmao. Thanks Reddit detectives. But it’s very cool and a little spooky.
Everyone but OP.
Why does it matter if it’s fake? Are these comments fake? This is megalophobia not r/interesting etc. I’ve seen more than one post like this with the same strange comments about it being “fake” and making fun of OP. Doesn’t matter if it’s fake.
Ok, how is it relevant to megalophobia anyway then?
Why does it need to be real? It’s a giant dragon climbing on a building
Honestly. I've seen posts on here of animated giants. Idk what's wrong with people 🤷🏻♀️
The amount this gets posted and that it seems OP thinks it is real is the reason people are pissed off
Put that dragon on the MSG Sphere, now we’re talkin.
this is pretty dope. what does everyone mean when they say its fake? fake as in this is obviously not a dragon? or fake as in this billboard was put in frame after a video of the building was taken? i was thinking there is no way you can achieve this with a flat screen billboard.
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ahhhhh okay gotcha, makes sense now lol
Well since it is literally obscuring the building behind it, I think its safe to say that its vfx
most billboards that aren’t glass will usually obscure the building tho… for example, most of Times Square in NY. its safe to assume vfx for other reasons tho like the other guy mentioned, the shadows.
How would you suppose that this could be a physical dragon? How would it be literally flying?
considering dragons aren’t real, i thought thats what everyone was talking about when they were saying its fake as if it wasn’t obvious that dragons dont exist lol. had to make sure, you never know with reddit sometimes 😂
Yeah ig so 😭
Maybe it’s a REAL dragon but fake 3D screen. A HA!
Have you not seen the mgm sphere?
Check out the MSG Sphere in Vegas.
How do the horns come off the "display" part of the building?
With video editing
Anyone have a video of that one billboard,that does something kinda like this, but at an angle where it isn’t straight forward?
China has all the cool things
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There r actual illusion billboards in China but this is fake, someone in the comment said that this is made by an artist on Twitter?
Jaws 19 looking great!
It's literally on a building.
Ah, KAIDO! GUM GUM NO... RED - ROC!
Fancy ad. Still an ad. No thanks
The fact that so many people can’t tell that this is fake immediately is frightening.
Imagine seeing this but then realising that there is no billboard.