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iWalk

Re: New movie

Originally posted by i_should_register
They are uploading a 2nd movie right now (510k so far)
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-the guys voice in the backround sounds german

this is great and all but this kinda spoils the surprise. i bet steve is cursing his ass off right now.

also wouldnt this contradict the point of having a portable lcd monitor on the imac?

[Edited by rekras on 01-03-2002 at 12:35 AM]
 
Ports?

I can tell that it has a firewire port, headphone jack and mic jack, but what is the forth port? From the second video it looks like a ADC port, but I'm not sure.

If they combine this with the 5 GB HD of the iPod, for $399, im sold!

Again, Steve is gunna be pissed.

I wonder what tommorows Apple homepage will say. Damn those rummors sites got it.
 
dangit...

yup, he's right - the hand bumps the unit, and you can see the text is not stable.

hate to say 'yeah i thought so', but did the design of that scroll wheel seem a little clumsy from the get-go?
 
Re: Ports?

Originally posted by ThomasB
I can tell that it has a firewire port, headphone jack and mic jack, but what is the forth port? From the second video it looks like a ADC port, but I'm not sure.

If they combine this with the 5 GB HD of the iPod, for $399, im sold!

Again, Steve is gunna be pissed.

I wonder what tommorows Apple homepage will say. Damn those rummors sites got it.
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lol
 
Antoine is right. Watch the text in the sayhello movie - it does jump around. Apart from that, this baby looks real to me. If it wasn't for that text jumping, I'd have no doubts...

New guess for tomorrow's headline at apple.com:

"Ah, crap! Who ever that was, I'm gunna hunt you down! Love, Steve."
 
You are totally right.

If you watch that movie, the text is staying in ine place and the iWalk is moving about a little bit.

Darn it all to heck!
 
good eye

yeah, that text was added after the fact.
it stays put, even when MrThumbs is
slightly moving the iWalk as he writes...

it's doctored... damn...


good eye . . .
 
It looks a bit dicey...

I would love for this to be real. I would love for it to be real so much, that at first, I convinced myself that it was indeed real. However, it seems as though it is an extremely well-made hoax, and nothing more. In light of the previous post regarding the text not staying steady, it is clear that as the PDA moves under the shifting weight of the user's hand, the text stays in the same spot on the "screen," while the rest of the screen moves with the PDA, suggesting the text was superimposed onto the mock-up. Likewise, in the additional videos on SpyMac, the Apple logo in the jog wheel is in a different orientation...why? Curiously, the user's hand is always RIGHT OVER where the stylus makes contact with the screen, hiding the writing as it is captured. I'm afraid that right now, at least to me, this doesn't seem too convincing. Nice try, though.
 
what are you talking about? The device does not appear to be moving...

besides...

look at the other movie

arn
 
apple strategy

if apple dares to challenge the rumor sites, it only proves that apple on purpose delivered info as this, i think it just fits in their marketing....from now on they controll these rumors...

but result will still be way beyond....
 
But wait

Don't forget the compression of the QT format leaves pixels on the screen and does not redraw them every frame when there is little or no movement in the actual video. This could account for why the text appears jumpy.

Also, it seems the jog dial has something to do with switching the orientation of the display. A little like the Linux distros on the iPaqs.
 
Did you notice:

the apple logo dial spins
the date on was 12/26/01
the battery meter is blue
you can write any where on the screen
how fast it was at handwriting
the handwriting was cursive
gui is an aqua/quicktime theme
 
Look, I am not a rumor-monger, but in video 1 it sounds like the voice says "Applisches bitte" which would be "thank you Apple" in German. Am I wrong?

Gus
 
Fake

Antoine, I just looked at the footage again. you are right. the handwriting is definitely fake. LCD screens would not jump around on video like that. It looks as though they tried to hold the camera and the mockup device as still as they could but they couldnt make it perfect. I dont think the device is real. Doesnt make sense that apple would go this far to create all the metallic outer shells of the newer products such as the TiBook and iPod and just to come out with a pda the size of a USB floppy drive and the plastic shell of the cube. I think I better stop looking at these sites and wait to be awed come next monday. This is really spoiling the potential fun for me.
 
C'mon, it's SpyMac...

These are the same guys that posted that funky PDA mockup just before the last keynote...

I'm trying to get a viewable copy of the movie right now, but it sounds like the tide of popular opinion is already turning against it...

I can't wait to see tomorrow's update on Apple's site -

"Hah! Fooled ya again!"
 
Text clearly jumping around

When I download the movie and watch it enlarged you can clearly see the text not move when the machine moves from the hand writing motion. Watch closely everyone.. it is not really doing what we see but it was clearly added in later.

I am not saying this is not a real product but do not get hopes to high as this could be a very good mock up as I have seen mock up like this done before as hoaxes... So beware!!! BUT.. Be Hopeful and most of all be Realistic.. PLEASE.. So you will Not to be let down.....

OVerall,, Things do look promising and if you got even a few dollars buy Apple stock now!! Apple stock went up $1.40 just today!.... It will continue to rise.. I promise this!!!.. 🙂
 
subtle but undeniable


arn, keep your eyes locked on the typewritten text as he is writing the word 'iwalk' - you'll see some very subtle funkyness going on (that's the technical term for it, I believe), in relation to the edges of the screen. in visual effects terms, it's bad tracking. absolutely 100% fake (though VERY well done)

also, the other videos show the device, but this is the only one that shows the user interfacing with the OS.
 
Sorenson's motion compensation didn't make that text stay still.
Look at other static parts of the screen.
They jitter along with the rest of the iWalk.
...also, look at the line on the table when the guy moves his hand out of the way. Parallel to the iWalk.
...if that video was 320x240, that, along with the other two videos would have me throughly convinced the iWalk was real.
...now, I'm a little less certain of its authenticity.

[Edited by TylerL on 01-03-2002 at 01:26 AM]
 
something else doesn't fit...

the spymac.com website points out that "The SpyMac staff have finished verifying the authenticity of the iWalk video and have decided that the source of the footage is sufficiently unidentifiable."

yet, the web page being browsed on this iWalk is AT the spymac.com web site?

seems like either this is a nicely done fake, or spymac.com is doing a bad job of hiding the fact that they actually have their hands on one of these.

the former seems far, far more likely...
 
Is it just me, or has the "Bootup" movie never worked.

It only comes up as a blank movie for me.
 
Nice Try, But Fake

They did a good job at this one, but some blue-wall type effects can only go so far. This just proves SpyMac has some extra plastic and stickers and they are good at Final Cut Pro. You can see things like text staying still when it moves. And why would it boot up to a notepad? Nice try, spymac, but you're not fooling me 🙂
 
Save them to disk

If you have problems with bootup.mov, save it to disk, then it will ask you for the location of one of more of the others, give them to QT and it will play.
 
Fake, Fake, Fake!

Not only does the text not move, but near the beginning the battery bar looses its color. Also, notice how the iWalk flexes due to the pressure from the writing. It seems that it and the desk moves. Also, the other ones are convincing except why would it boot to notepad? Also, I just don't like the Apple iWalk in the bootup, would it not just be iWalk.

This can be faked, but you have to know what you are doing. The reflections are the only thing that make me hope that it is real. Any ideas on the bending of the desk at the end of the first movie?
 
If it's fake then.....

Nice Freakin Work!

That's a beautiful model of what the "iWalk" would look like. We're talkin 20-30 hours JUST building the model. Then all the photoshop and Final Cut Pro work would make this a mammoth hoax. If it's fake then I'm impressed with the rat-b@$t@rd$.
 
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