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Initial post: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=523893&st=1740&gopid=588203909&#entry588203909
Initial post: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=523893
<blockquote>"My job is to find the smartest people on the planet. My employers are rewarding them with outstanding prizes, including a trip into space to see the ultimate vista, and being immortalized in a computer chip around the world."</blockquote>
 
More info: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=292483#292483
<blockquote>"An audience of general spectators and key players arrive at the Bellagio Hotel on Monday night around 6pm and wait alongside the street in anticipation of something significant to take place. The general public will not be aware that something unusual is about to take place but the community will have deciphered the countdown and the precise time and showing location for this spectacular event. The famous Bellagio Fountains (Lake Bellagio), are renouned as the visual icon of Las Vegas are about to reveal the global challenge and deliver the first set of visual clues in a way no-one has seen before. Of course, there is still one big suprise they won't see coming. Countdown hits zero at exactly 6:30pm. I look left to right, scanning the audience.
 
Lights and music turn off (fountains stay on). Two more water curtains rise on the left and right side of the original curtains. As these curtains rise, they fill with multiple clocks and the sound of the original clock multiplies by hundreds revealing... (view full production notes)."
 
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My job is to find the smartest people on the planet. My employers are rewarding them with astonishing prizes ... including a trip into space to see the ultimate vista, and being immortalized on a computer chip around the ... world.</blockquote>
Both of the above transcriptions were from screencaps by [[User:X9]], and [[User:SuperRob]]. ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=292490#292490 ref]).  The folder shown in both these screenshots is called 'Windows Vista Game'.  This almost certainly ties the VanishingPointGame to the Windows Vista launch.
 
This information was discovered, apparently, in a live video stream.  Several screen captures exist:
 
Photos from the event ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/longzheng/350109125/ source])
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Screencaps from the event's stream ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=292483#292483 source])
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