This optical illusion room will make you gasp with surprise

We don't throw around the term "wonder emporium" loosely, or ever, really, but Richard Wiseman's carefully scaled room in this video becomes nothing less than a wonder emporium. Playing with scale, the fairly standard looking room becomes a series of disorienting surprises in the whimsical hands of Wiseman, who dismantles our assumptions in under a minute. We had to watch it twice (the first time we screeched "WITCHCRAFT!" and fled the room). But now we think might understand a little more about Hollywood camera tricks.

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