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Stacy Livitsanis

Longer videos equals good times for all, except your production schedule. Marvelous.

Gondamar

this is genuinely your best video. I loved how you had the over-arching theme of your "Gynee" and the frequent call backs to it. There's just something about the way that you would launch into debunking, go back to talking to the camera, and then go back into debunking (like the Beakman episode) that I really liked. Really good writing for such a low-budget production. Please, more like this! I don't care if the gap between videos is higher, as long as they're this good.

Eckhart lol

Next level!

David Bednarczuk

I anxiously await what your $250 got you

Raymond

I don't think he ever made an unambitious video. D always put a lot of effort into every video; he's just able to do them full time now.

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Wow, very thorough! I can't wait to see when/if you get anything!

Very well done!

Everfalling

if only companies didn't use kickstarter as a launch pad for products that they would have produced anyway. Companies use the crowdfunding platform as a way to essentially ensure a level of preorder for an item. In this way people end up getting the wrong idea about these sites and treat them like online boutiques of unique and cutting edge products and then get really mad when either their money is essentially stolen or a project comes in under their projected goals and end up running out of money before they're able to make their project a reality. Crowd funding can be awesome but it's definitely being gamed pretty bad which hurts a lot of real and promising projects.

Charlie Deets

dat battery life tho

Jamie F

Crowdfunding has gotten such a bad rap...and for good reason. Snakeoil saslespeople like this need to be bashed out from the weeds before they can do damage. I'm reminded of a recent kickstarter I backed that had the most amazing track record for a) being realistic, (starting with a real project complete and ready to manufacture) b) providing updates more-often-than-weekly, and c) is about to ship on time. (search: pjrc teensy 3.6) It kills me that the shitbirds can give the whole platform a negative reputation when they are so powerful to back real creators. Grargh. Thanks D, you are awesome.

Carl Fink

This sort of video is why I am a fan.

Nathaniel

Good stuff! Cicret's claims immediately reminded me of the work of one of my old university professors who actually does research in this area (with a little bit more academic integrity thrown in). It's just *slightly* more clunky (who doesn't want to wear a depth sensing camera on their shoulder?), but we might get there in 5-10 years or something. <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/OmniTouch" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/OmniTouch</a>

Great video! Thank you!

Scott Gartner

Shut up and take my money already! (great video!)

Kyle Wall

I loved that little CD logo gif you used during projection demonstrations. Would love to use it as a wallpaper!

Susan Gerbic

WHERE IS MY BRACELET! Loved the ending D. Let me deal with the policeman asking the psychic for advice! Let me at em'

Steven Campbell

Loved it. Fantastic video Cap!

Great twist on debunking. I have backed a few kickstsrter campaigns and its pretty much the same thing. You get to watch people figure out that it's a lots harder, takes longer and cost more than you think to start a business and deliver on your idea. But I love them for trying. Cicret seems a little less well intended. Can't wait to see your braclet capt. D.

Captain Disillusion

Thanks! I think that's too harsh a term. I don't believe that he or the company is out to deceive the public. I just think they're using viral marketing to keep alive the development of a product that is hopelessly flawed. But I could be wrong!

Captain Disillusion

Thanks! I think it's justified. See my reply to Robert, above.

Charlie Ross

Excellent!

Captain Disillusion

If anyone wants the "prototype" box, I'm happy to send it for only the cost of shipping :)

Captain Disillusion

Thanks! I dunno much about no math, but that's an interesting observation. I should say though that the graphic I use to illustrate that part was generated by literally shining a virtual light through a virtual transparency, resulting in the projection on the surface. But maybe AE calculates that stuff in a simplified way that's not exactly consistent with real-world light :S

Captain Disillusion

He doesn't really do anything fun enough for a GIF in this video, but maybe I can make one out of our exploits from the previous one :)

Captain Disillusion

Thanks! I hope that my donation will not be considered throwaway. I wanted to show that I'm not merely interested in badmouthing a startup's efforts. I'd like to see if this product will be delivered, and if it is, I want to test it and provide a review. Plus, it's a way to show to others who may have donated that I'm not making fun of *them*; that I want to see results for my money just as I'm sure they do.

Captain Disillusion

Not sure when. I screen-grabbed the timeline from their site only a few days ago, but haven't looked on it since. Oh well. That's how it was as I was making the video, at least.

Deni

So good! CD probably completely forgot how to make unambitious videos

Excellent episode! Hopefully it goes viral and people see Guillaume for what he really is - a fraud!

Michael Krehan

Love this video. Fantastic as always. But do these people really need to be rewarded with $250?

Another great video. You're really going all out on these, great to know we can help you do this for a living now! So when's the Gynee going to be a Patreon tier reward?

Awesome video as always, CD!

Matt Curley

Great video!

Truckee

Great job! I love the investigative journalism approach. I would love to see this kind of thing done for other non-video related products.

Ali

Great investigative skills there, Cap! Loved the video :)

Great video!! Loved the Gynee prototype. A geeky comment regarding the falloff, that might have been smart not to put in the video anyway. I think its even worse than what you say, and its more appropriate to say it follows an inverse cube law. One of the dimensions in which its projected is not perpendicular to the ray direction. In that dimension, the "handful of stretchy squares" in 4:00 is streched even more (in the "arm direction") than in the other one. So, being h the "height" where the sensor is placed, and d the distance, intensity falls with h/(d^3 + d h^2) if my math is right. For distances of several heights like in this device, that's more or less h/d^3.

Kyle Wall

Loved the callback to CD Jr.! Any chance we can get a download of that little CD .gif? (with a hard g!) Also when will we get our very own Gynee?

Jasper

This was excellent. I see a lot of these hardware mockup comps ( the worst one IMO was the Mozilla Seabird -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3tLxEQEdg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3tLxEQEdg</a> ) and they're always silly. If I have one tiny piece of feedback, it's a bit insensitive to talk about a throwaway $250 donation immediately before the Patreon call-to-action. I'm fine with my donation being used that way, but that could have been a bit clearer.

Adam Lister

That was straight up awesome, your videos just keep getting better! Love the throwdown at the end, can't wait to see the resolution on that one (though it's rather predictable). Can't wait to share this one once it's public. Also you forgot to link to the Gynee kickstarter...

Kevin Frear

They've already moved the ship date to early 2017. Did that happen before the video posted?

Torsten 'what the fluff' Pihl

"There's something familiar about this sensor arrangement." I thought it a Tron Recognizer.

Arielvaale

Thank you so much for addressing the problem of crowdfunders not giving people what they paid for. Channels like iDubbbz have been doing it for ages but I'm so glad a general audience channel like yours tackled the issue in such a precise and great way. Keep up the good work!

Kevin Frear

I'm about halfway through right now and I am totally loving this video! This is one of those crowd fund campaigns that irritates me the most. They obviously never had a working model but the idea is cool. Apple watch without the watch.