Was a pair of Aerofoot "flying shoes" demonstrated at Gitex 2029 by a woman using them to hover over a stage, models floating over a catwalk or a man taking off from a pedestal? No, that's not true: The video, and several more like it, were posted by someone who labels themself as an "Artificial Intelligence Enthusiast" and an "AI Time Traveller" with a caption saying they showed events in 2029. He posted the footage in 2025 and several of the clips contained glitches typical of AI generated videos.
One of the videos appeared in a Threads post (archived here) published by Jyo John Mulloor on October 23, 2025 with a caption that read:
Aerofoot Demo ⛸️ Gitex 2029
This is what the first frame in the video looked like:
(Image source: screenshot of Threads post by Jyo John Mulloor.)
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Mulloor's bio on Threads (archived here) describes him as:
Digital Artist 🔱 Indian 🇦🇪🇮🇳 👽 Artificial Intelligence Enthusiast 🤖 AI Time Traveller
AI detection tool Hive said it was 99.9% likely the video contained AI-generated or deepfake content.
(Image source: Hive AI detection tool results)
Mulloor's Instagram profile contained other, similar videos (archived here and here) that also showed glitches typical of AI generated footage like odd writing.
This is what the videos looked like:
(Image source: screenshot of Instagram post by Jyo John Mulloor.)
(Image source: screenshot of Instagram post by Jyo John Mulloor.)
