Welcome in the Matrix elevator…don't be afraid, your whole life is an illusion

Going down? Terrifying moment lift floor drops into shaft (. . . and it isn’t any less frightening when you know it’s just a stunt)

Office workers step into a lift, their minds on what tasks the day holds, or perhaps their plans for dinner after work.

Suddenly the lights dim and, with the sound of tortured metal, the floor falls away into a black abyss.

Fortunately, this isn’t footage of a terrifying accident but a stunt by a technology company to show how clear the picture is on its new computer monitors.

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Ominous: The floor buckles, the light flickers and hidden speakers simulate the sound of distressed metal

 

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Vertigo: The man is taken aback as the floor tiles seemingly fall away into the yawning mouth of the lift shaft

South Korean conglomerate LG combined nine of its new IPS monitors and fixed them to a floor of a lift in an office building.

After the floor button is pressed, the monitors show a hyper-realistic animation of the floor collapsing into the darkness.

The effect is heightened by an ominous flickering of the lights and sound effects of shrieking metal giving way.

LG did not respond to questions from MailOnline regarding whether the participants were real office workers or actors.

However, either way they will undoubtedly give many workers something to think about next time they press the office lift button.

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