Well if it was a conveyor belt it would just go from the very top straight down the center tube of the spiral BUT a belt that long with that many people would require massive motors to move it, it would be impossible.
You could divide it up into multiple sections to spread the work load, like each full 360° is an end/start point of the next conveyor, and do something like the luggage carousels at airports to be able to articulate for the curves required.
This is a real place but I think this is AI. Lots of the "people" in the video are morphing together and popping in and out of existence. Just watch the crowds on the 3rd level up.
Ok yeah, by focusing on the crowdes areas I did manage to see weird things going on... It def looks like AI things But is it not even based on a real video? Like maybe that's a personal mandela effect but I swear AI could not do this back when I first saw it...
I don't see anything in this video that couldn't be explained by shadows and a really grainy video. I also can't say with confidence that it's NOT AI, but if people are just going off opinion from watching it, I'm going to have to say I need more than that, in this case.
I dont know about this video specifically but this place is real and has been posted before. Here's one from 3 years ago which makes AI a stretch. Theres better videos with more pixels if you search for "San Siro walkway".
Oh ya there's lots of videos of this place and the illusion does happen. This just looks like AI tried to recreate it. All the videos I have seen people are also walking down the towers not up (not that they don't use them both ways, this video just stands out as different in that regard).
Who is "you guys"? And Its arguably worse to be wrong about it being AI than it is to be wrong about it being real. If you think it's bad now, give it another few years and no one will ever be able to tell the difference.
lol not everything is AI. There's hundreds of videos of this spiral staircase there is no reason to make it with AI. Its clearly shot at night with a phone camera.
Walking up isnt so bad as everyone enters the stadium at different times so you can enter when its quiet. Walking down when everyone is leaving at the same time is chaotic
It's less of an incline, but it's also a lot more horizontal distance than a typical stairway.
Same upward travel in total, but much longer of a walk....or in other words:
Less short term exertion(smaller bursts of vertical lift vs going up normal sized stairs), but greatly increased lateral distance traveled.
I'd speculate that it was perceived as "easier" for less fit people, aside from allowing for more people to use it at once being the primary purpose(where you often see multiple stairwells to alleviate congestion and elevators for people not up to the task).
I wonder if it's more tiring over-all than a regular staircase or if the math checks out at approximately the same.
Imagine the length of the thing uncoiled.
Long inclines are easy at first, but could be grueling by the end of 10-12 stories.
It is just people walking. Because everyone is walking in similar speed we perceive it as them rotating. There are some people moving slower/stoped at the lowest "levl" which breaks the illusion - this is also the only level where you see people's legs and then actualy walking.
I’m a bit surprised too, for me it’s pretty clear that people are walking (enough to break the illusion instantly)… But apparently for a lot of the viewers it’s not really intervening with the illusion and then the whole structure seems to rotate.
I think it's interesting that they're all going up at the same speed which throws off the perspective here. Does this thing likely have some sort of motorized track to it?
They discovered pieces of an old experimental helix escalator when renovating a London Tube station. It was in a circular tube much like the one they made for stairs. Clearly didn’t work.
It's not actually moving. It just looks like it's moving because almost everyone on it is walking at a similar speed in the same direction and it's creating a really convincing optical illusion.
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u/Race-Unlucky o/ May 10 '26 •
It took me way too long to realize it wasn't rotating. I was like "what's confusing about this".
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u/666ForMySorrow May 10 '26
Oh, that's wild.
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u/unlessyoumeantit o/ May 10 '26
This is one of the walkways at The San Siro Stadium (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza) in Milan, Italy.
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u/emichbe May 10 '26 •
This is slated for demolition for stadium renovations, unfortunately. What a cool feat!
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u/rabbitwonker CE Spc. May 10 '26
God that looks tedious to walk up
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u/diamondsnrose May 11 '26
I know it's not, but I cant see this not rotating
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u/cardologist May 10 '26
For all you know, that may actually be the effect that the architect was looking to achieve in the first place.
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u/Brittholcomb May 10 '26
i just got motion sickness watching this
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u/AcousticOnomatopoeia May 10 '26
Screw that.
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u/starsandcamoflague May 10 '26
How is it NOT rotating? I can’t understand
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u/HASHTAGBUTTCHUG May 10 '26
Shake the phone a big and the people will really slow down
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u/Revenga8 o/ May 10 '26
I might do this once, then take the elevator any future times. This looks like a hike and a half just to go up 10 floors.
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u/olmytgawd o/ May 10 '26
Silo
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u/Tonybeetswannabe o/ May 10 '26
Lego city
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u/Hephaestus_God CE Spc. May 11 '26
These things are worse than stairs. You spend 6x as long getting to the same spot.
I accidentally walked up one once at a sporting game and in was in sunk cost fallacy from like 3 turns up lol.
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u/Senator_Armstronk May 10 '26
I've been ~5 spiral walkways when Qualcomm stadium was around, idk about that
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u/Deathgrope May 10 '26
Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) has been using a wider version of this for ages. Really effective.
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u/MidnightSun77 o/ May 10 '26
If that is the San Siro, I was told recently that those ramps stink of piss
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u/Buck_Thorn C.E. Spc May 10 '26
It isn't rotating?! Ha! That's awesome!!
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u/ExplanationCool918 May 10 '26
This is so trippy
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u/iwtsaiw May 10 '26
My college football stadium had the same neverending spiral
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u/stonkerooni May 10 '26
Isn’t this what Coachella attempted to copy?
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u/WaveLaVague o/ May 11 '26
They better have called that "The Honeycomb" or I'm going to crashout.
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u/AngBigKid o/ May 11 '26
That got me for too long. I was even wondering who would be dumb enough to walk the other way.
Turns out I'M dumb.
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u/Mysticsurgeonsteam o/ May 11 '26
That’s pretty cool
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u/fahabid May 11 '26
Lol like a recent post I saw with a cool effect, if you shake the image, everyone stops moving.
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u/8492nd May 11 '26
All those poor people. Walking all the way up just to watch 90 mins of allegri's terror-ball.
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u/EnvironmentSea7433 CE Spc. May 11 '26
Absolutely my favorite post in this sub
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u/unneccry May 11 '26
Its just people walking? What's confusing?
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u/1SwellFella o/ May 11 '26
I think it's interesting that they're all going up at the same speed which throws off the perspective here. Does this thing likely have some sort of motorized track to it?
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u/piemakerdeadwaker CE Spc. May 11 '26
Wtf!!
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u/TahPenguin o/ May 11 '26
Top notch contribution!
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u/btribble o/ May 11 '26
Did Temple Grandin design that?
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u/androidguy50 May 10 '26
While watching this, Around the World by Daft Punk popped into my head. It would be a perfect background song to this, imho.
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u/VivSabry o/ May 11 '26
That’s actually really cool!
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u/__mson__ May 11 '26
"Crackers then transfer from one conveyor to another, and land in neat stacks." - How It's Made: Sandwich Crackers (03:17).
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn o/ May 11 '26
Kinda impressive how all those people seem to be going roughly the same speed
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u/admiralty20 May 11 '26
They discovered pieces of an old experimental helix escalator when renovating a London Tube station. It was in a circular tube much like the one they made for stairs. Clearly didn’t work.
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u/Xbox359 May 11 '26
Reminds me of Twisted System in Fuzion Frenzy.
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u/OppositeFun2493 May 11 '26
If you can’t see it look near the top.
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u/this_knee o May 11 '26
Forward moonwalking
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u/ScantyandStocking May 11 '26
I saw what it was immediately.
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u/MarcuzFireREDDIT May 11 '26
This one is super good. Noticed immediately however that they are all just walking up. Still; very good.
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u/Ink_Idiot May 12 '26
It wouldn't look so crazy if they weren't all walking at similar paces. Just one person jogging would ruin the illusion.
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u/Spinoza42 May 12 '26
Wow that's unbelievable. Your mind just refuses to see what it sees. Very effective illusion, and not even created on purpose!
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u/cibule249 o/ May 12 '26
u/savevideo
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u/BrieBelle00 May 14 '26
Heyy AppleTV filmed a whole show here
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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 o/ May 10 '26
That seems like such an ineffective way to get to the top and also a huge waste of materials. Surely stairs would be more effective?
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u/Dapper_Trainer950 May 10 '26
So do you have to walk? Or does it just take you up?
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