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How to Create the Backwards Water Illusion

WIRED’s Robbie Gonzalez visits with Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn about illusions showing water that appears to stand still or float upward, Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Follow WIRED: Instagram ►► Twitter ►► Facebook ►► Also, check…

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  1. Kaustab's Melody

    November 7, 2021 at 5:01 pm

    1st

  2. Mine

    November 7, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    lol

  3. Rides1283man

    November 7, 2021 at 5:04 pm

    Answer: No

  4. A K

    November 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Didn’t this guy publish this video already in his channel.

  5. Just Some Guy with Purple Eyes

    November 7, 2021 at 5:10 pm

    In short, no, no it doesn’t

  6. ꜱᴜᴍᴇᴅʜ ꜱʜɪɴᴅᴇ ✪

    November 7, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    Grab your “I’m first” title here folks

  7. Jamesy

    November 7, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    Load a pish

  8. Barefoot Joe

    November 7, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    You seriously filmed a piece for Wired in Portait mode in 2021?? okaaaay…

    • Dat Huynh

      November 7, 2021 at 5:32 pm

      It’s #Shorts thing. For mobile people basically.

    • Barefoot Joe

      November 8, 2021 at 9:08 am

      @Dat Huynh it’s also trash

  9. Beckett Cornelsen

    November 7, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    Cool

  10. 300k

    November 7, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    nice

  11. D39R355ION(DEPRESSION)

    November 7, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    Frequency causes a specific vibration that matches the cameras images making it look like it’s reversed

    • Marius van Gent

      November 8, 2021 at 12:33 pm

      Similar to how car wheels sometimes seem to rotate in reverse

  12. LaylaMiki

    November 7, 2021 at 5:45 pm

    That’s brilliant !

  13. Marinus

    November 7, 2021 at 5:49 pm

    Speaker frequency vs Framerate vs Stroboscope. Lots of ways to do it 🙂

  14. Slim Khaled

    November 7, 2021 at 6:23 pm

    Laminar Flow is another fascinating water flowing you must take a look !

  15. Amityawsome

    November 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    It’s flowing towards really fast which causes the illusion

  16. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    Very Nice! MashAllah(SWT)

  17. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    ALHAMDULILLAH(SWT).

  18. Omaer 1

    November 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    ASTAGHFIRULLAH(SWT).

  19. kwaulite

    November 7, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    that water contains 24 frames per second

  20. Samtagri

    November 7, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    This is such an ooooooold trick

    • That Guy in the comment Section

      November 8, 2021 at 6:50 am

      and?

  21. Andrew Hobbs

    November 7, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    thanks for wasting my time

  22. Dhruv Gulati

    November 8, 2021 at 2:03 am

    Fourier tranaform visualization

  23. Blue Dragon

    November 8, 2021 at 3:31 am

    good

  24. Drew Blair

    November 8, 2021 at 4:07 am

    the frequency must have also made 1080p look like 240p

  25. Charlie Daniell

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    What’s the FPS of our eyes so we can make it look like that irl

    • Philip Gali

      November 8, 2021 at 9:17 am

      Hahahha

    • LifelessNerd

      November 8, 2021 at 2:35 pm

      You cannot

  26. Username

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    What’s the FPS of our eyes so we can make it look like that irl

  27. Definitely Not Vaughn

    November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am

    You look like Adrien Brody (Ofc in a nice way)

  28. Eve Mackenzie

    November 8, 2021 at 6:41 am

    this is a certified hood classic

    • krishna murli

      November 8, 2021 at 11:02 am

      cute lovely beagle

      /

  29. derrick Global

    November 9, 2021 at 2:37 am

    ????and we are mostly water ????‍♀️

  30. started farting

    November 9, 2021 at 1:50 pm

    My wife’s son loves the backwards water illusion.

  31. hasan kharfan

    November 10, 2021 at 4:37 am

    This is one of the better simpler explainations of this.

  32. The Animagus

    November 15, 2021 at 1:14 am

    Now we gotta get the backside of water to be an actual tourist attraction

  33. Mohamed AL sudani

    November 15, 2021 at 4:24 am

    Explaination for the rain trick in now you see me 2.

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