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4:3 display?

Looks like it houses a 4:3 display
 

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That's a production line robot..

That set up is for shooting commercials. Notice the white dots for tracking, the arm connected via all black for removing in editing post shooting, four in a square for effect - so much of this looks like photos taken during a taping for a commercial. I would not be surprised to see this in about half an hour.

I should add, I've been involved in commercial creation and have seen rigs like this before. How do you think they get all that nifty motion? Sure you can animate but rigs like this make it more real, quicker and cheaper to put together.

That's a production line robot. Not a camera or camera holder.
 
Time to quite reading...

Well, it is almost 1:00 pacific. It is time to quite looking at the rumors sites and all news sites. Time to just finish the days work and head home. Then, tonight, after dinner, sit back and watch the keynote in all it's glory and get the news just the way the people who attend live see it. Much more fun than reading a bunch of blogs and tweets. Requires discipline though. "Do or do not...there is no try." - Yoda
 
Hmmm, how would you explain that industrial looking robot...? That is not a camera crane!

I never said it was a camera crane. It is used to turn the rig and an industrial rig like that has far more degrees of movement than anything else plus it can safely handle a much heavier item(s). The camera sits back and shoots the movement.
 
That's a production line robot. Not a camera or camera holder.

Again, I never said its was a camera holder. The camera doesn't need to move, the rig does. An industrial robot has more degrees of movement. How else can you get all the twisting and turning in so many of the apple commercials you see w/o animation. Again, I've been on shoots before and seen robots like this used to accomplish the crazy motion on products like you typically see in an apple commercial.

I'm not saying this is it but so many people questioned the rig like it was part of the product. I saw the rig as used for a commercial - potentially. If you aren't in the industry you may not be aware an otherwise notice it.
 
looks to me like a computerized scanning or video arm, and the dots are for motion tracking information. Not sure why there'd be four of them, though.
 
Fake... Apple makes everything in an assembly line method, not like that (4 at a time). It would be a waste of resources, time and money...

Fake... next

Besides, that looks like Aluminum, we need the plastic bar to help with radio waves for Wi-Fi and supposedly included 3G radio.

Haha, look how wrong you were! :D
 
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