projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp — This is a video off of the guy's website who is working on this technology. Notice how the LCD's content looks better reflecting off the guys jacket than coming straight from the LCD. And, no it would not looked like that if you just hooked up a projector to a digital videocam, that's a special jacket.
Aug 1, 2005 View in Crawl 4
Closed AccountAug 1, 2005
Yeah, this would be awesome in a military situation. All you'd have to do is position several companies of troops along your encampment and take orders from the group that's off axis from the stealth's viewing angle. Who ever spots the projector light just has to call in a rocket attack in the general direction and follow up with small arms fire once the troops start scattering.Yeah it's be simple. Oh, wait...you mean they'd be using them on our side???
notkevinroseAug 2, 2005
gotta love the japanese dancing though
stopherAug 2, 2005
It might be useful for hiding something stationary.
_____3Aug 2, 2005
I couldn't see any japanese guys dancing but I did see a big f**king shadow of one on the wall...
percyhannaAug 2, 2005
Everyone's talking about the shadows on the wall, but if it was a projector wouldn't you see the rest of the image being projected onto the wall as well?Try this at home: Use a projector, aim it at your screen or wall or whatever. Walk in front of the light. If you do not block the entire image, there is still some of the image around it that you can see.I must admit though, when he puts his hands in front of his head, you can't see his face or anything. It sure does have the appearance of green screening though... The tie stands out like crazy.Ah well, I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
clintusAug 2, 2005
Ok look again guys. The tie is proving to you that it is not projected. It's an LCD monitor behind him. I have seen something like this before back when I was in college. It uses a similar technology that was explained in the last james bond movie. Fiber optic cameras in the threading of the jacket projecting what it sees on the front and vise verse. The AF want to use the same technology and put it on the bottom of their air craft so that pilots could see directly below them. This video was taken at a convention last year and no way could have been green screened right in front of all those people.
pacobellAug 2, 2005
@tmanka: If you don't know how to do that by yourself, you don't deserve to "down-digg" it ;)
ottoAug 2, 2005
This *IS* projected. More details can be found here:<a class="user" href="http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html">http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html</a>It's not projected onto the guy, however. It's projected onto a angled half-mirror between the guy and the observer. The way the LCD works is that the projected scene is rendered along with a photograph of the area, to stick the moving video into the proper space on the projected image in real time.
Closed AccountJan 6, 2006
i'm a bit late with this, don't know if anyone's still watchin this, but how exactly do all those noobs who argued that there was no projector think it worked then? how do they propese that a fabric jacket created the image? and the reason that the projected image is not visible on the background is that it is an image OF THE BACKGROUND!!! the apparent white spotlight is the projected image...