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- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -0/+1A read that the military is working on something similar in National Geographic some time ago.
- Clintus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok 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.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, 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??? - OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will you people get over it, it's not a dupe.
This is a video of the tech. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You gotta admit, thought, that those guys dance pretty damn cool. Especially the last one that does the arm thing over his face.
- bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow. I haven't seen this since last year.
- Omnutia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That depends on the distance you can project although you would have to have your opponent between the jacket and the projector as it only works on one side. The more likely military use would be a see-through armored helmet where the wearer is protected from sniper fire while able to view a 360 degrees image of their surroundings complete with multiple vision modes and tactical overlay. If they can make them that small/
- manvsmonster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As I said in the other post, I've known about this for a long time, so I'm not posing this as a dispute like those others, but I'm curious about something that I've always been curious about since I was a teen and found this.
I wonder why we haven't seen the military implement this right away when they're talking about investing large sums of money into mobile robotic medics that can be controlled by doctors far away to heal on the battlefield or scoop up injured soldiers, and there's the Star Wars program, and other little things I can't recall. Why the ***** haven't they simply slammed this thing together? The technology is already put together, and they could make soldier uniforms out of that and bam! But... as I wrote that, I recalled how families were having to buy armor because soldiers themselves were so underfunded. Maybe that's just a despicable display of the priorities here. ***** active camouflage that makes you look like an apparition, and then there's making weapons. Soldiers are expendable, they will die? - salweem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The military is working on a similar concept.
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For this to work you need a projector projecting on the jacket, so it would not work in a military setting.
- notkevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0gotta love the japanese dancing though
- Anunnaki, on 11/09/2007, -1/+11) nice Toy stuff
2) anything disclosed or "patented" is either old, legacy or otherwise unimportant (or has become so)
3) russians would laugh their asses off as western world ist 40 years behind in skalar EM
4) http://www.cheniere.org/images/flawed%20path%20of%20em.jpg
4) read www.cheniere.org/toc.html if you want to learn (but dont come crying when its not what your Sci Prof told ya *loool*) - noobpwner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'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...
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@OregonTrail: http://digg.com/technology/Optical_Camouflage
...you were saying? - wbrendel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is not a digg dupe, but I know I saw video of this technology on Slashdot months ago. It was a video of a guy with a skeleton projected onto him.
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@CarbonUnit: Yay for Google ¬_¬
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0228_050228_invisibility_2.html - AzBaja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can I say blue screen or green screen? I can do the same thing with a green jacket and a few cameras placed in the right spot. Do you not watch the weather on the news? You can fool the camera but can you fool the eye?
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another Google search brought up this interesting tidbit. Looks like it's going to be aired there soonish: http://discoverychannel.co.in/indosb/feature2.shtml
- test5477, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a bunch of bs, project an image on something and its "active Camouflage"? this is horrible. I can do it with my projector at home, man I'm a genius..
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IT IS A FACT! This guy is a really bad dancer.
- Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It might be useful for hiding something stationary.
- SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. Very nice!
- OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know a news article was already submitted on this, but you gotta get the content from the source.
- jkdrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember watching a news story about this on one of the discovery channels. They have to use a projector to do it. What the military wants to do is use thousands of tiny cameras and fiber optics in a suit to achieve the same effect.
- ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I couldn't see any japanese guys dancing but I did see a big ***** shadow of one on the wall...
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Otto: I know. See, if people would have viewed the original submission for this story instead of just the video, all this speculation would have disappeared. Instead, we have a bunch of ignoramuses spouting off uninformed nonsense. *sigh* Never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity, I guess.
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"For this to work you need a projector projecting on the jacket, so it would not work in a military setting."
Its not projected onto the jacket. The image is produced ON the jacket. You just need a camera showing what is behind. This is an old story. It was on /. over a year ago. the military has also been working on it for some time. There was a story about their version on Dateline or something a long time ago too. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This *IS* projected. More details can be found here:
http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
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. - aqualung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The problem I see is, how are we going to teach our troops all those kick ass moves? If we could, that'd be sweet. I saw a guy do the robotto in Tikrit and it saved a Mosque full of civilians.
- percyhanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Everyone'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. - tmanka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OMG what crap, can I down-digg this?
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@tmanka: If you don't know how to do that by yourself, you don't deserve to "down-digg" it ;)
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