Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Looks cool... but man can these companies just stop it with the fake marketing content already?

Between this and the Gemini demo its just so cringe to see obviously staged content.

Dude just happens to walk by his partner who isn't doing any real work, but is instead playing with a tennis ball at exactly that moment, and who just randomly decides to immediately and without hesitation fucking yeet it at the guy wearing a headset who is clearly trying to make a recording. Come on people... what has tiktok done to us?



I thought it would be funnier if she was packing her clothes in luggage and she threw her keys to him as she said "I'm leaving you"


Yeah or "those goggles or me, choose now!" :)


The tennis ball was definitely planned, but I don't think its an Apple plant.

This dude is kind of obsessed with the ball and trying to juggle with the headset on. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b3__WACGQzY


I thought it was just a funny thing that the author added in to highlight the effectiveness of the passthrough. It never occurred to me that it might have been intended to be "organic".


what part of this was fake? Gemini video was sped up and cut and added voice. This is just a recording of the headset with no editing?


100% agree that there are different levels of marketing lies, and Gemini was lying about tech where this is just acting/staged.

I was mainly referring to how in both cases the creators are using this "fake authentic" tiktok-style corporate content with actors clearly behaving in non-realistic ways. So damn cringe... but I can see how equating the two causes confusion and I wish I could delete my original comment. HN seems to have timed out the edit window :(




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: