Amazing Cloaking Technology!

It's not amazing at all it's a projector and a camera etc, it's low tech stupid #. Only in a very few cases this might be useful. That's my comment about it...

I'd have to say fake, but it's a cool effect. It got me wondering how hard
it would be to duplicate it, so I gave it a shot. It took only 15 minutes to
come up with a little clip of a floating woodblock with the "cloaking material"
on one side (like the wood paddle in the video). I applied a texture of the background picture to the block where I wanted it, and oriented it so as to always face the "camera".

It would be simple to replace the background and "cloaking" texture with a video instead of a still shot.

It doesn't look "real", but it's a pretty good example of the effect, and if I can do it, someone who actually knew what they were doing could easily make a more realistic version.

Does this really work? Or is it a trick?

The skeleton is the major discrepancy. At the beginning of the clip the holds up a brick which 'sees' straight through the guy, including his skeleton, then at the end it selectively only penetrates his soft tissue. Also, refraction levels vary inconsistently.

It's real, sorta
Here's a link from CNN about the optical camouflage..
www.cnn.com...

old news, 2003
pretty cool though.

The photo was taken through a viewfinder that combines moving images from behind and in front of Obana, who was wearing a luminous jacket to create the transparent effect.

I can see this being used for many, many things.
But it's not quite the stealth suit/optical camou we're hopin for.

Originally posted by The_Modulus
The skeleton is the major discrepancy. At the beginning of the clip the holds up a brick which 'sees' straight through the guy, including his skeleton, then at the end it selectively only penetrates his soft tissue. Also, refraction levels vary inconsistently.

Uhm, you and a few others totally miss the point of the video. Moreover what you are describing aren't cloaking devices. The example in the video -to a lesser extent- is.
Ofcourse the brick doesn't make you look through anything, it's the brick that IS cloaked. Imagine an airplane that can display the air above on the bottom. That is what is being shown here. Nothing more.

So it's not so much about seeing through things as it is about projecting the image. It's not fake, just not what a lot of you think it is.

Originally posted by iCEdTenG
Wow. That is amazing, however howcome i havent heard of this anywhere else? Why doesnt it make it into the mainstream news? Surely tech this groundbreaking would be headlined? Right
?

This is several years old (the "cloaking," not necessarily the video) it was in mainstream news, but...it's not true cloaking so it's not really anything groundbreaking.

Here's the Prof. who came up with that www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp...

Unfortunately the link to the project page isn't working but here's what it says in the description:

Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage. This idea is very simple. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent.
RPT (Retro-reflective Projection Technology),
HMP (Head Mounted Projector)

More recent news, they are getting closer it seems:
search.japantimes.co.jp...

Scientists closer to making objects invisible

WASHINGTON (AP) Harry Potter and Capt. Kirk would be proud. A team of American and British researchers has developed its own cloak of invisibility.

Well, OK, it's not perfect yet. But it is a start, and it did a pretty good job of hiding a copper cylinder.

In this experiment the scientists used microwaves to try to detect the cylinder. Like light and radar waves, microwaves bounce off objects making them visible and creating a shadow, though it has to be detected with instruments.

If you can hide something from microwaves, you can hide it from radar -- a possibility that will fascinate the military.

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Originally posted by The_Modulus
The skeleton is the major discrepancy. At the beginning of the clip the holds up a brick which 'sees' straight through the guy, including his skeleton, then at the end it selectively only penetrates his soft tissue. Also, refraction levels vary inconsistently.

Probably that's something to do with a black background? If it wasn't, then you perhaps wouldn't be able to see the skeleton. But hey, what do I know?

Cheers!

Heres the video of where I first saw it, bout a year or so. This is the video from the picture posted above from CNN. This is cool though and its technically true but i think very limited in its use. It would be good like they said to see through their hands(surgeons).

hight3ch.com...

Another and imo better technology on cloak are these two.

This one will be cool once they get it small enough to fit on some fatigues so the soldiers can wear them and stand right infront of the enemey and be almost invisible. it will show them only whats behind you....

hight3ch.com...

This one has to do with microwaves and Meta material still very cool and a lot of potential. Enjoy

hight3ch.com...

funny stuff. It amazes me that you would believe that! Very cool idea but not real. Bad magic

Hey guys,

...for the sake of total understanding, you have to see this video of the UFO Mexican Conference, where these images were showed by the first time...

This is a Conference held by the Disclosure Project every 5 years, whose attendants are NASA and CIA scientists, old governement workers, ex-NASA workers, astronauts, USAF pilots, some of them NASA fired (and threatened) ones...

This Conference video is the only one showed to the public, through Internet... posted by Jaime Maussan himself...and it is really amazing, to say the least...

Just watch it and judge for yourself...

The final part on Crop Circles is simply amazing, showing the message, decoded by NASA scientists, appeared in a binary code image in a crop circle, just in front of the SETI headquarters...

I recommend to download this amazing video and copy it to a DVD... who knows if someday will be banned...

There are 90 min. of pure joy and amazement...

Never seen "secret" videos of UFOs, weird creatures, pics, and crop circles...

Here´s the link:

video.google.com...


Regards...

I saw that about 2 years ago on another website but completely forgot about it.

How about this? Catch him if you can!



Yeah! That's the 'Invisibility Cloak' for Combat Uniforms, under trials. Give it a few months more for the patrol squad to 'disappear'! And walk around with impunity behind enemy lines. Terrorists are gonna get screwed! But what happens if and when the terrorists get hold of these cloaking uniforms too? Then we are screwed!

So it's back to square one! It would be both amusing and hillarious to see both sides donning these invisibility cloaks during a fire fight. What are they gonna shoot at?!

Cheers!

[edit on 28-6-2007 by mikesingh]