Forget about backwards compatibility, raytracing, and teraflops for a hot minute – was that audience real or not? You’ve got to cut Sony a little bit of slack here: it originally intended today’s PlayStation 5 deep dive to be presented in front of a live audience of game developers – it never could have accounted for coronavirus culling GDC this year.
Still, the most shocking part of today’s presentation – assuming you ignore the fact that over 600k people watched it live and very few will have had a clue what lead architect Mark Cerny was talking about – was that it took place in front of a green screen, with fake silhouettes in the “audience”. Except, were they fake?
At first, we thought it was a static Adobe Premiere overlay, but we definitely saw a few movements. Take this gentleman on the far left – he definitely attempts to scratch his face:
(As an aside, we sincerely hope he used hand sanitizer before doing that – maybe he was given some officially licensed PlayStation handwash. Assuming, of course, he’s a real person.)
Honestly, we’re undecided about this. There are definitely people in the video, but Cerny doesn’t appear to make eye contact with any of them, making us think they’re a separate video feed layered on top of the presentation itself. But what do you think? Help us to solve this mystery in the poll and comments section below.
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I think they're superimposed. I think that's stock footage of an "audience" and they've layered it over the top. Cerny's in an empty room.
The fact that they were moving to show they were still awake proves they weren’t real.
Pretty sure it’s looped the guy in the left kept messing with his face.
Now we’re gonna find everything wrong with Sony because of disappointment over Deep Dive.
@MrGawain Haha, that got a chuckle from me!
You know, it's this kind of post that makes me come here lol
I think they were real people, but just Sony staff.
I’m pretty sure it was an imposed PNG file that acted like an extended gif so the one on the left moved a tiny bit on occasion. No way they were real. I would say unneeded, but I’d rather have the memes.
I think Mark Cerny is a synth. Either that or I've been blasting too much Fallout 4.
Superimposed. Because the video would look weird without it. Plus the civic 19 concerns.
yeah the people are real but are not there.
so the question is why even do that ?
could they not have cerny be there and have no ilusion of an audience?
of all the weird deepdive stuff this is by the far the weirdest.
I think they were real as they moved but I couldn’t tell you if they were really there.
Would have been better if they'd included the MST3K cast to make jokes and improve the presentation for everyone who doesn't want a thirty minute lecture on how a hard drive works.
That was just Joel, Crow T Robot, and Tom Servo cracking jokes.
It was a video crowd. I would have loved it so much if they would have used some of the ps-icons like Nathan drake or aloy😁
If they are not real, then why even put them there? Everyone on earth understands why u would do this without a audience.
I'm not entirely sure Cerny is real, he reminds me of one of those Japanese AI dolls..... maybe he is PS5?
I think they're fake, but can't quite shake the morsel of doubt from my mind.
The entire thing was made in Dreams. And given the recent banning of large gatherings, every one of those silhouettes is now in quarantine.
@get2sammyb This article must be a record for internal links. I count seven
The whole thing was Cerny's cognitive world, they weren't real. Either that or I've been playing too much Persona 5.
The audience was real - it was the presentation that was 'faked'. It must be fake as Mark Cerny has a Vaio in front of him so maybe was created from footage from 10yrs ago....
I'm still trying to decide if Cerny was real or an early failed attempt at an LMD.
@BAMozzy Cerny was real, the audience was real, the Vaio was photoshopped.
Cerny should have pulled a Clie out of his pocket to check the time.
LMAO - maybe he did and I missed it with the dull delivery
@ShogunRok the Being John Malkovich sequel nobody wanted
Watching the fake audience was far more interesting than anything coming out of his mouth
They were made in Dreams.
@MysticFartRipper
I get that 😍 I loved the "movie"
They were superimposed for sure. No human being would stand hearing this presentation without killing himself!
Especially at the 20 minute crap of 3d audio!
I think the PS5 specs are fake. The real one has 128 CUs at 5.0Ghz and 32 Zen 3 cores CPU. The SSD is fine.
IMHO, fake audience and its ridiculous, totally cheesy and sad
Plot twist: the audience was real, we are not.
Fake! They totally missed the chance to add characters such as Joel, Nate, Ellie and Aloy as the audience.
What is real? Is mark cerny real? I just don't know anymore..
@MattSilverado The real ps5 is powered by cell 2 and emotion engine 2
They should have used ray tracing to make them real.
It would have been better if they were pixilated.
now sony needs a bit of damage control. we live in times that the first impression, social status and public opinion matters most
So to sum up Cernys talk about ears, this will be the Playstation 5 experiance...
@MysticFartRipper Yes! I used to love Mystery Science Theatre.
If you pause the presentation at any point, and just look at a static frame, this looks like something straight out of sci-fi movie. It's super surreal.
@rjejr Haha, I was surprised to see a VAIO laptop was still a thing. Googled it and found you can indeed get a 4K VAIO laptop for £1700.
They were real, but due to the presentation being a pre-recorded one, those people might have been Sony staff.
@BionicDodo @BAMozzy It was such a bad PS5 anything, this is the equivalent image they would have used if Cerny were up there reading aloud some hot and heavy porn action.
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