BBC Click's Spencer Kelly showed RTS audiences at the Cambridge Convention how a magic trick can be done when wearing a virtual reality headset with 360 degree cameras.

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When asked to put the headset on during the “Rise of the Smartphones” session, RTS President Sir Peter Bazalgette said that the 360 degree cameras were very effective in showing him how the illusion was done.

The trick has been created by Objective Production’s Head of Magic, Anthony Owen and was filmed by VR specialists, Visualise.

See how the illusion is performed for the first time in regular 2D by magician Ben Hart:

Now see how the trick is done in 360 degrees:

The photograph is by Paul Hampartsoumian.