If you went to EPCOT Center in the 1980s, nearly two decades before home Internet and broadband, you might have had the opportunity to use Worldkey, Disney's vision of the computer and information future. You would have used a Worldkey terminal to get information about the park with graphic and sound with the aid of an intelligent agent.

Or you could have gone to a ride about communication and used a video phone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm71LBGSUu0

Today these kinds of things are entirely commonplace, but how was Disney able to pull this off 40 years ago?

Trickery! But that's okay, because sometimes the line between trickery and reality doesn't have to be so clear cut.

When I watched this video on Disney's Worldkey, I was thinking how common trickery like this is in games, and how much we can do if we're willing to embrace a little virtual smoke and mirrors.

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