If you're going to replicate the effect, please for the love of god do not apply it to anything that the user has to read or otherwise interact with. Trying to

If you're going to replicate the effect, please for the love of god do not apply it to anything that the user has to read or otherwise interact with. Trying to click on a button, that moves as my mouse moves towards it, is an unpleasant experience. Trying to select text that moves around the screen as my cursor drags over it, is a nightmare. As for how it's done, it's just a CSS3 perspective transform, presumably updated via some JS running on each frame tick.