By Vurdlak on June 13, 2006, with 108 Comments
After few debates, we finally managed to figure out all of the transparent desktops, PSPS, Screens… Remember? Well today we give you some more material to keep you occupied. I really have no idea how this guy managed to make his laptop transparent, even when he keeps moving it! Please help me figure out this movie clip. I would like to thank Rohtop for sending us this incredible illusion! Here’s what Rohtop wrote on this one: “Hey Vurdlak, I saw some vid that shows the transparent screen illusion, maybe you saw it already I don know. There’s a link in my attachment. Very cool! Keep up the good work with your site, I love it very much.”
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Does the word “Bluescreen” mean anything to you?
It’s either a green, or a blue screen. Like they use for weather maps. :)
or just a piece of thing glass with stickers ^^
poor laptop, have to say bye bye to his screen because it will be replaced by a plastic glass
It’s a cool illusion and I can tell you exactly how it’s done. There is no screen in the laptop. As for the icons, that is easy too, he uses a printable plastic sheet. The same type of sheets used for over head projectors, if your older you will remember these from school. No green screen. No camera. No photo-shop. It’s the simple solution that is right. :)
@gates has it right, it is just a plastic film, that’s it.
lol theres no screen
photoshop???
cool illusion
COOllllllll!!!!!!!!!!! im new to this and i love it intresting stuff
Some of the edges are fuzzy, making me think the computer and person are a second video, and the background is blue-screened in. Then, in the overlay, the computer screen was probably green or blue, and blue-screened also.
Hmm…it seems to me that there is just plastic in the place of the laptop’s screen. I could tell because of shines. If it was a green screen thing, I think the sines wouldn’t be there.
But seeing all the different responses, I want to know from the original person who made this…How did you do it? Just so I know…XDD
it looks like theres just glass, you can kinda see the reflection in some parts.
wow guys. i’m sure all you do is attach your webcam facing towards the back instead of the front.
notice cam is locked down on tripod? well this is super easy to do and he coulve had his icons in there too, just set desktop bg to lime green, film bg plate, key out screen , make a small mask, after effects 101 stuff
He’s put some green screen material over the screen and used a chroma key effect. The computer can’t be used to display a green screen due to luminosity and colour variations inherent in an LCD when it’s turned. The two giveaways that this is done with chromakey are:
a) about the 7 sec mark there is some break up in the upper left corner where the green screen wasn’t quite flat or had some variation.
b) around the edges of the screen you’ll see periodic variations in sharpness as the matte isn’t flat, so there are variations when the key is applied.
Nice trick.
See the green light reflection on the arm of the user indicates the screen of the laptop is green. that means he makes a common FX used in video called chroma inlay. the inlaid video was previously recorded then played and synchronized with the shot…
I think it was an old, not working computer so he just took out the screen
Pretty sure it’s a webcam on the back of his screen, full sized.
While a webcam could work, it would have to be pretty good to be able to work like this. Not only would there have to be almost no lag, but the webcam would have to be built into the computer to give such an accurate portrayal of transparency, which rarely face the outside, and tend to lag.
Unlike the picture, there are no icons on the screen of the laptop. It’s either not there or just a clear sheet of glass or similarly transparent material. And even if there were icons, stickers on a transparent sheet would look completely normal.
Here’s a link that explains it all…it’s actually a new style of laptop that really does have a see-through screen technology…so cool…I want one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLUW-pbXwY4
Umm, did anyone even think that, “hey where are all of the desktop icons?” He popped out the screen, we cant see any of the icons, i dont think its real. This illusion is a fraud. :(
or he took a previous video with the lap top and moved it in the exact same fashion he did while taking the video when he was replaying it and had the same scene on the tv playing. However that would take some intense precision that I doubt a human being can possess but hey who knows.