How does a phantasm illusion interact with cybereyes/headware memory? Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Okay, so, here's a thought. Say that four runners, three Awakened and uncybered, and the fourth quite extensively cybered in the headware department, are suddenly confronted with a Phantasm (not a Trid Phantasm) of a fire-breathing, pissed-off Dragon.

The fourth one has Rating 4 cybereyes with all the trimmings, and an implanted commlink where things she sees can be recorded for posterity.

The description of Mana Illusions state that they ".. affect the mind and are ineffective against technological viewing systems like cameras." Technically speaking, this character's entire method of vision is cameras.

So, does the fire-breathing dragon show up to her, or not? I'm thinking it does, since she's a valid target for the spell, and it makes her believe she's seeing the spell - if she was a valid target but was viewing the scene in, say, a mirror, or from a screen, she would appropriately believe there was a dragon behind her/on the camera.


But, what about her headware memory. Does it record a Dragon, too? It is, after all, magically considered a part of her since she paid for it with Essence. But technically speaking, that Dragon is not there, it's not reflecting any actual light into the photoreceptors of her cyber-eyes.

I think it wouldn't, am I wrong? The dragon isn't actually there, she's just being mindfucked into thinking it is.

So, my question is, assuming I'm right, what happens if, during this encounter, she takes a moment to, via her image link, review the exact scene her eyes are recording from her headware memory, just a split-second ago? She's no longer conceptually "viewing" the phantasm, she's reviewing a photograph, kind of like taking a Polaroid with a nonexistent development time. So, while she' sees' that dragon out there, the picture-in-picture instant replay is showing a fat lot of nothing. At this point, with any sort of magical theory in her at all (and living with three Awakened people, you tend to pick this kind of thing up,) she should recognize that she's fallen victim to a mana illusion.

Is the illusion automatically broken? Or is my conclusion spurious to start with?