Optical Camouflage

[blike]

Not quite James Bonds' Car (for those of you who have seen the new one), but kind of cool nontheless. It works by projecting an image of whats behind the object onto the object itself. The interesting part is that the projected image only reflects off certain material. Since it doesn't reflect off skin, it tricks the eye into thinking the obect is almost see-through.

 

 

 

 

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Videos here:

 

Mirror.mpg (915k)

 

oc-s.mpg (1.26M)

 

oc-phantom.mpg (1.66M)

 

 

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I'm still waiting for the army to show off their research into the real stuff. I read about a suit being developed that projects whats behind the person in front, giving the illusion of invisibility. Havn't heard anything about it in awhile.

[fafalone]

The military has been working on this for a while. I suspect they're pretty close to perfecting it by now.