Lately, I’ve been thinking a bit about the “Haunted Painting Effect.” That’s my own name for a certain kind of optical illusion that periodically surfaces online. The most commonly circulated examples ...

South of Midnight has one of the most inventive visual styles for a game in recent memory. The movie-like quality of the animations and art style is something that developer Compulsion Games should be ...

We’ve all experienced it: Someone, maybe you, maybe a friend, buys a new TV. You sit down to enjoy a movie or TV show, only…everything looks weird. What was once a high-definition picture now looks ...

Sure, a 144Hz monitor will offer better motion clarity than a 60Hz panel, but another 144Hz monitor can still look clearer in fast-paced scenes. And that usually comes down to other specs like ...

Television manufacturers including LG, Panasonic, and Vizio are working together to kill off the maddening phenomenon of "motion smoothing." Motion smoothing is a digital effect that makes whatever is ...

In the age of OLED TVs and HD displays, movies should be looking better than ever when we watch them at home. And yet, the opposite seems to be true. If you throw on ...

For years, new TVs have come with a feature called frame interpolation, or motion smoothing, enabled by default. By creating new frames in between the ones encoded in the movie, it makes motion ...

Know Your Stuff is a new column that unlocks the hidden secrets about the everyday products you own. Across millions of living rooms each night, a tiny tragedy is taking place. People are settling ...

In 2006, researchers Peter Tse and Po-Jang Hsieh at Dartmouth College reported a striking new illusion, the infinite regress illusion, that went on to wow audiences at the Illusion of the Year Contest ...