Every working magician will, at some point, watch another performer do something they invented. Sometimes it is flattering. Sometimes it is a slow, quiet insult. The question is what kind of performer you decide to be when you are on the other side of it: the one who built the moment, or the one who lifted it.
I will use our act as the lens, but nothing I say is specific to second sight. Whether you do close-up, stage illusions, or mentalism, the question underneath everything is the same: Does your material have roots, or are you performing a surface you borrowed?
Creativity almost always starts small. A simple problem, a simple solution, and only later do the wider implications appear. The real gap between originators and imitators isn’t talent or opportunity. It is willingness to stop in front of your own work and ask why.
Every second sight act in history defaults to the blindfold. The justification is obvious: It removes the receiver’s sight. When Marina and I built Mind2Mind, we used one too. We assumed we had to. Then one day we asked the question nobody around us had bothered to ask: Is there a better way?