http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/ Engadget Comments for Marco Tempest's Augmented Reality card trick makes David Copperfield look positively ludditic http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/
e.g. when he does the changing color card he takes two cards held as one shows the bottom which is red and then places the two cards
back on top of the deck and only takes the top one which is black.

He then does uses the bluescreen to 'magically' disappear the black card on top so that its not that obvious when he discards the red card.]]>Apr 30th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/May 1st 2009 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/
If you can't pull that trick off (sans FX), then you have no knowledge of card sleights. It's a Bill Malone, Sam the Bellhop-esque trick, and it's not even performed very well. Sorry to call you out, but seriously? You don't have to be Harry Potter to do it, nor (if you are in fact a magician) have the intellect of Albert Einstein to figure it out.

Check out Bill Malone doing Sam the Bellhop for a real master at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GErpOl3KG_w

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It could play like Eye of Judgment.

Sweet.]]>Apr 30th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/May 1st 2009 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/
As for the Augmented Reality, he's only done stuff I've seen other people do on YouTube for several years now. Don't believe me? Search for Augmented Reality, AG, and ARToolkit. He "borrowed" alot of other people's ideas.

I suppose some people might be impressed with his computer appearing to read what he's doing and trigger actions, but that too is easy to do through a keyboard controlled off screen with his foot. He just presses the spacebar with his toe to trigger the animations. So the computer isn't doing anything more fancy then what you've seen in the PS3 game, Eye of Judgment. He's just triggering those animations off screen as his act progresses, like somebody triggering a slideshow in Power Point.

About the only thing that was impressive was his idea to hide the cards with polygons painted like his green background, so he could make cards disappear and replace them with digital cards for his hovering cards trick. That was a brillent idea. Not amazing, but very clever. I've never seen anyone do that before.

Outside of that, I've seen other things just like it on YouTube for quite some time. I've even messed with it myself. It's not hard to setup, and it's cool to play with for a few minutes, but not terribly useful or fun.]]>May 2nd 2009 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/
Magic just isn't impressive when technology is involved and you're well aware of it. The trappings of magic actually make the tech seem less impressive.]]>Apr 30th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/Apr 30th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/
Still... AR is pretty cheesy looking most of the time :P]]>Apr 30th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/marco-tempests-augmented-reality-card-trick-makes-david-copperf/May 1st 2009 7:55AM