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I saw this and was convinced it was faked too.... before even seeing the stories confirming it. Being a tech guy myself, I noticed that the hard part would have been mapping the image onto the screen, but that's not too hard with a rigidly mounted camera. But then I noticed his thumb moved over the image for a moment at about 3:02 in the video. I single-framed the video at that point and zoomed in on his thumb. You can see the masking artifacts from when his thumb passed over the image. In a natural image there would be no reason there should have been nearly black pixels at a few places around the edge of his thumb, most obviously around the 1:30 position (below the character's ear) or just above 9 o'clock... or the whole set of pixels from about 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock. This indicates the image never was really on the car screen but was applied in a post-process. He must have cursed himself for causing himself extra work by accidentally letting his thumb get in front of the image.
02-19-2017, 08:03 PM
