Samsung Soul promo video shows 10 optical illusions in 136 seconds

by Darren Murph, posted May 17th 2008 at 8:46AM

We'll be frank -- we really have no idea what Samsung's getting at with its freshest Soul promotional video, but it's certainly a fine piece of eye candy if nothing else. Put simply, the video shows a maniac darting about demonstrating ten optical illusions in just over two minutes, and in case you couldn't guess, the Soul is saved for last. Should we have prefaced that bit with a spoiler warning? Too bad -- vid's still waiting after the jump if you're interested, though.

[Thanks, Joel]

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Misc

Tags: marketing, optical illusion, OpticalIllusion, promo, promotion, samsung, slider, soul, video

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anonymous @ May 17th 2008 12:35PM

Those types of optical illusions only work on camera.

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Michael @ May 17th 2008 1:25PM

@anonymous

Actually, not true. Some of them only work on camera, others work better in person. For example, the heads following you, that works best in person because it looks like they really are following you. The different sized shapes works well either way, as well as the checker board.

Some of them are simply angle illusions, which means if they were set up so you could only see them from very limited directions, they would work well in person, but if you went to another direction, they would fail. The dinosaur would be one of those, as would the tire thing.

I don't know about the tie-fighter looking thing, because I'm not sure what the illusion was supposed to be.

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Michael @ May 17th 2008 1:25PM

Why does it say 10 optical illusions and then only show 8 (including the Samsung one)?

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Secret Squirrel @ May 20th 2008 12:12AM

Still only 9 if you include the drilled SAMSUNG... =/

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Michael @ May 20th 2008 12:48AM

@Secret Squirrel

So, we've got the 7 actual illusions, the Samsung display (whatever that illusion is supposed to be), the drill powered Samsung sign... and the entire commercial because only giving us 9(ish) illusions is an illusion in and of itself?

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youngcalihottie @ May 17th 2008 4:41PM

lol the only one i dont get is the soul. hahaha. what is the illusion on that? lol.

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luis @ May 18th 2008 12:05AM

I think the point of the promo is that the Soul is also an illusion because the buttons on the touchscreen change depending on where in the menu you are. (Maybe that has the angle as a symbol) I dont know its confusing but its WICKED!

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Gib @ May 19th 2008 6:53PM

After watching that promo video i will never be buying a Samsung phone ever again.

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Jim @ Jun 23rd 2008 9:20AM

You can download a similar dragon illusion and make it yourself from http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/

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