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- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay, for those who haven't seen this a thousand times...
YES, THIS IS A PROJECTOR.
However, it's not as simple as all that. The cool bit about this is that there are cameras off to the side of the guy. They feed to a computer, which filters out the guy from the background. Then from that, the computer calculates what it should display on him to make his clothing "invisible". It already knows what the background will be, basically. Then it projects that onto him.
This is why you don't see bleed off to the sides of the guy, or see anything projected on his head. The computer only projects onto what it can tell is his clothing, basically. And it does so using a view from a different angle.
The coolness of this is in the computer program doing this work, not in the projection itself. - nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I freakin' swear, I can't go into the comments before seeing the word "old." The word old is getting OLD in digg.
- glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool, but not THAT cool. I think what threw me was the guy dancing around like UMA Thurman in Pulp Fiction
- ciaocibai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i still think it's impressive. but not as cool as harry potters cloak... haha.
- dotpage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0parks, you're an idiot, that's not a projector, that's the cloth actually printing what's in the guy's background.
- normmron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I understand that this may be a dupe but at least 74 people(at the time of writing this) found this to be cool. So apparently not everyone has seen it if you think its a dupe simply report it and don't make the rest of us that haven't seen this kind of stuff have to read through 8 posts of people crying "This is old".
id rather you just report it and let other people read very cool news. Thanks - rawr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Sure you've read about the invisibility cloak, but have you seen it in action?"
Yes, yes I have, least year. - antiTRACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 parks (first poster), you're such a dumbass - are you 10 years old?
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dotpage--i hope that was a joke
- Leonaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's more video of this out on the web than there are articles about it. The question is 'You've seen it, but have you HEARD about it?'
- Gundam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It was in time magazine with a link to video a year ago, no digg.
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0steve its not like...last week old like other articles on digg...its like..."so last summer" old.
Why do we read old diggs? because they arent dated and we cant tell if its a mew breakthrough in something that is old or just something that is old. - TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could someone PLEASE teach me to dance like that?
- f1gm3nt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember hearing of this but never seen it very cool.
- Sazime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, bluescreen. Yes?
- maxpower17@digg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 smickles why must you use such language on digg get over it. digg is all about tech news and such right just because you've seen it doesn't mean that ever one else has so suck our nuts and have a great f'in day
here's a DUPE!!!!! for ya suck our nuts and have a great f'in day
bitch - Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When you put it that way, Otto, it is pretty sweet. But I also understand that it's an old story. I remember seeing it on TechTV where they were showing it off in the street as people walked by. Very cool to watch, but indeed old news. Love how the background blatently proclaims Nextfest 2004. Guess Spamowitz missed that when he was watching the funny man dance.
- Brhine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is cool to see. However, I was at NextFest here in Chicago, and it is based on a projector in fron of him projecting what is behind him on to a photo-reflective coat. You had to stand in a certain pace for the effect to work.
- Brhine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mehron, the camera picking up the image was of to one side a little and behind them. The projector was also off to the side a little in front of them if I remember correctly. You can actually see them step out of the projector light to the right a couple times. The chair to the side doesn't show through and you can see the color of the coat.
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Sure you've read about the invisibility cloak, but have you seen it in action?"
Yes, about 10 times on this site alone. - xjeffx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw this in person last year and it was less than impressive. The video looks much cooler than it really is in person.
- jasonsbytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heard about it a while back, but never seen it -- digg!
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol funny asian...
- Sazime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol yeah! The new invisibility! A projecter screen for a jacket! Woo! Either that or bluescreen. Invisibility cloak, noooo sir.
- rfek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Invincibility Cloak?!!!
awww...
nevermind. - trelum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol wtf was that
- balazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OLD -- DUPE
REPORTED - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Are you sure about hotlinking that?
- Scuba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sure have, there were a couple of vids posted a while back...
- dickzorz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah this is old. Old like Before g4 became nazis, and techtv was still standing. It was on a little show called the screen savers. It had kevin rose on it maybe you have heard of him?
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0old......very old.
- mehron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How come it doesn't project the image of his face as his sleeves pass over his face the first time he does so in the video? The second time, when actually facing the camera, head-on he bows his head so that you get a shot of the 'cloak' and the objects behind it. The legitimacy of such a 'cloak' is flushed as to the fact that his face did not show as his sleeves passed the uncovered portion of his face.
- Parks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Invisibility cloak!?! I can stand in front of a projector in a light coat and get my picture on the net too. No Digg.
- stevex0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"I freakin' swear, I can't go into the comments before seeing the word "old." The word old is getting OLD in digg."
Then stop reading articals about way old tech news. It is like posting about windows xp being released. - smickles, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Goddamnit. I have seen this story at least 4 times. Now you call it a cloak? Big ***** deal.
DUPE!!!!!
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