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Prop your phone
Lean it against something steady, or use a tripod, so it can't move. Even a nudge spoils the trick, so don't touch it again until you've finished.
The Illusion Trail · Stop 5
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Cloak of Invisibility
Hold up the green cloak, open the app, and watch whatever it covers fade clean away. The woods show straight through it, and whoever is holding it looks cut in half.
Start here · essential first step
Open the App
The Cloak of Invisibility runs entirely through our app. Without it, the cloak is just a green cape. It opens straight in your phone's browser, with nothing to install.
Open the App
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Three steps to vanish
The cloak in your rental is a deep, even green. The app memorises the scene without you in it, then shows that empty scene wherever the cloak appears. What the cloak covers, the camera no longer sees.
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Set the empty scene
Frame the spot where you'll stand, with no one in it, and tap Set the scene. The countdown is the camera memorising the woods.
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Step in and vanish
Press record, walk into place and hold up the cloak, green side to the camera. Whatever it covers disappears. Then save the video or share it.
A little about it
Green-screen magic
It's the same trick film studios have been using for decades. The technique is called chroma keying: the camera locks onto one very specific colour and replaces every pixel of that colour with something else.
The cloak is a flat, even shade of green that doesn't appear anywhere else in the scene. The app finds that green, removes it, and fills the gap with the scene it memorised before you stepped in. That's why the phone has to stay perfectly still.
Hold the cloak in front of yourself, and you're carrying a window straight through to the woods behind you. Prefer somewhere stranger? Switch the background to a night sky, or a photo of your own.
Continue the trail
More wonders ahead
Each stop on the trail is a different illusion. Follow the path through the trees, and don't forget to take a photo at every one.