Seeing is Believing

### Cold Open

"We live in a visual world. And our visual perception is so important, and even though we have 5 different senses, almost a third of our brain is devoted just to vision. And every waking moment our eyes and brain are working overtime to make sense of the constant stream of visual information pouring in. So even as you sit back and watch this TV show, your brain is working hard to convert the images on your screen into objects that have meaning. By changing your perspective, you see a whole new reality. Your brain is literally trying to make sense, interpreting the images that are being sent to it by your eyes. Perspective equals reality."

## Games

### Game #1: Yellow Star

Stay aware of photos while focusing on the yellow star.

Result: You may see some odd results when you used your peripheral vision . But they're not ugly. We didn't change anything.

Why: Even though humans are good at recognizing faces, we don't get good resolution with peripheral vision and your brain misses the details and emphasizes the contrast, making them look a bit freaky. Even though they worked against each other, they often work together.

### Game #2: The Dwarf Chair

Look at someone usually small sitting on a big chair. What's going on?

Result: They're bigger than they look because the "Beuchet Chair" is designed to play with your visual perception.

How: Things that line up perfectly are probably like that. However, the two parts of the chair are actually separate. If you view it from exactly the right spot, it looks like an alternate reality.

### Game #3: Ames Room

Which women is taller?

Result: Depending on where they stand, they look bigger or taller.

How: By using a special room called the Ames Room, created to mess with your visual perception. It's made to create the Ilusion of a square room, but it's not like that. one wall extends further back, and the floor is built at an angle. The reason it works is because your brain makes assumptions based on past experience based on previous rooms.

### Game #4: Wine and Dine With Apollo

What assumptions are you making right now about what you see?

Result: The bottle is gone.

Why: Because Apollo's assistant pulled the bottle away, the bottle was gone. and when Apollo tapped the bottle, it wasn't a real tap.

### Game #5: Off the Mark

Using special goggles that shift everything 30 degrees to the right, how will they shoot basketballs?

Result: Really Badly. As you played along, their brains were adapting to the new reality.

So: Now with the goggles off, he's back to being shifted off because of the fact that his brain had adapted.

### Game #6: Bistable Image

Watch a ballerina. Is she moving left or right?

Result: Both

Why: Because the ballerina is a bistable image, that can be interpreted in two ways because that's what the last visual cues indicated.

### Mini-Game: Relax

Look at a sprial. Dead center.

Result: You experience a motion afferefect.

How: When your visual cortex gets overstimulated with the same thing over and over again. Those visual muscles get tired.

### Game #7: Einstein

Is Einstein in front or back side?

Result: You didn't know.

Why: Because it's not typical and something is a face, it must be a face. And we're hardwired to see faces.

### Game #8: Einstein Again

What happens we shrink Einstein?

Result: He looks like Marilyn Monroe.

Why: Using a special image, after Einstein shrinks, only the more general features are visible.

### Game #9: The Cube

Count the number of lines needed to make the cube.

Result: It took 20 lines, Although it only seemed like 12 to your brain.

Why: Just with the Ames Room or Beuchet Chair, your brain used past experience to make an assumption.

## List of Experts

* Dan Simons
* Apollo Robins(Deception Specialist)