User blog comment:Subject 16*/Assassin's Creed: Revelations - News/@comment-189.29.242.37-20110529212435/@comment-70.70.13.203-20110529232742

Also, it doesn't matter that it wasn't in the animus. What is happening with desmond is that he's basically BECOMING a walking animus. He's not gaining the ability to see in the past, his brain is just acessing the same genetic material the animus does by itself.