The Bureau of Deceivers presents

A Deception of Senses

Case 00708 — a cinematic experience for Apple Vision Pro. Five centuries of illusion, restaged in the space around you. The file is open to the public for the first time.

The immersive layer opens on Apple Vision Pro.

Case 00708 — the subject

500 years of illusion.
Step inside the images that taught us how to see.

Field notes — the experience

Not a film. Not a game.

A sequence of chambers in which the history of illusion is performed around you: painted domes that open onto false skies, perspectives that resolve only from where you happen to stand. The Bureau classifies this as a controlled exposure.

Field notes — the observer

Nothing to master.
Everything to notice.

There are no controllers, no menus, no score. You stand inside the image and looking is the whole instrument.

The first minute
is the hardest.

Placeholder. Subjects arrive braced for a device and find a room instead. The bracing takes about sixty seconds to leave.

You will lean in.
Everyone does.

Placeholder. The body commits before the mind agrees; attention arrives as posture and the room quietly accepts it.

Wonder, then
suspicion, then both.

Placeholder. Delight and doubt stop taking turns and hold the same moment together — this is the state the work is built for.

Afterwards,
the ordinary room.

Placeholder. The walls return exactly as they were. Something in the looking does not.

Filed under: associates

The case is not ours alone.

The Bureau does not produce; it observes. Case 00708 is produced by Ultra and Ferryman Collective, in the company recorded below. Free on the visionOS App Store, Autumn 2026. All names appear here with their knowledge.

Production
Ultra  +  Ferryman Collective
Partner institutions
Museum Panorama Mesdag, The Hague · MEET Digital Culture Centre, Milan
Scientific advisor
Prof. Marco Bertamini — Department of General Psychology, University of Padua
With the special presence of
Marina Apollonio, artist
The file continues

Thirty-three will see it first.

Observer access, the question of the Bureau and the preliminary findings are kept in the main archive. The investigation does not wait here.

Observer access or return to the Bureau