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From the Ted Talk by Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Marco Tempest: What I'd like to show you today is something in the way of an enperxmiet. Today's its debut. It's a demonstration of augmented reality. And the visuals you're about to see are not poerrecedrd. They are live and ratcnieg to me in real time. I like to think of it as a kind of technological magic. So fingers crossed. And keep your eyes on the big screen.

ageuemntd reality is the melding of the real world with computer-generated imagery. It seems the perfect medium to investigate magic and ask, why, in a technological age, we continue to have this magical sense of wonder. Magic is deception, but it is a dptoeiecn we enjoy. To enjoy being deceived, an audience must first seuspnd its disbelief. It was the poet Samuel tyoalr Coleridge who first suggested this receptive sttae of mind.

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Marco Tempest: What I'd like to show you today is something in the way of an __________. Today's its debut. It's a demonstration of augmented reality. And the visuals you're about to see are not ___________. They are live and ________ to me in real time. I like to think of it as a kind of technological magic. So fingers crossed. And keep your eyes on the big screen.

_________ reality is the melding of the real world with computer-generated imagery. It seems the perfect medium to investigate magic and ask, why, in a technological age, we continue to have this magical sense of wonder. Magic is deception, but it is a _________ we enjoy. To enjoy being deceived, an audience must first _______ its disbelief. It was the poet Samuel ______ Coleridge who first suggested this receptive _____ of mind.

Solution


  1. augmented
  2. state
  3. suspend
  4. reacting
  5. deception
  6. prerecorded
  7. experiment
  8. taylor

Original Text


Marco Tempest: What I'd like to show you today is something in the way of an experiment. Today's its debut. It's a demonstration of augmented reality. And the visuals you're about to see are not prerecorded. They are live and reacting to me in real time. I like to think of it as a kind of technological magic. So fingers crossed. And keep your eyes on the big screen.

Augmented reality is the melding of the real world with computer-generated imagery. It seems the perfect medium to investigate magic and ask, why, in a technological age, we continue to have this magical sense of wonder. Magic is deception, but it is a deception we enjoy. To enjoy being deceived, an audience must first suspend its disbelief. It was the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who first suggested this receptive state of mind.

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Important Words


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