Solid Snake is jealous: get your own optical camouflage

by Nick Doerr { May 9th 2008 at 3:30AM }

Member ADOX2525 over at the PS3 Forums alerted the PS3 community to an interesting factoid amongst the scientific population. In Metal Gear Solid games, you have what's called optical camouflage -- it basically makes you invisible. It seems through clever use of projectors and tiny beads, optical camouflage was created a few years back. Sort of. With today's technology, who knows if it could be possible for real, but it's still interesting to see the concept actually in existence.

[via PS3Forums]

Tags: metal-gear-solid, metal-gear-solid-4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

deusmecha @ May 9th 2008 3:42AM

Older than Jesus.

Maximilian Lockwood @ May 9th 2008 3:44AM

Yeah. Knew about this. "fabric" incorporating fiber optic cables that project whatever is on the opposite side of the wearer (from the viewer's standpoint). So if one was to look at the side of a wearer of this fabric, they would "see" whatever is physically on the other side of the wearer.

As far as I know, you need light for the cameras to see, so this wouldn't work if the wearer were up against a wall. The lack of light wouldn't allow the cameras to see the wall, and the front of the wearer would look black/grays.

So I believe.

Mark Perkins @ May 9th 2008 3:54AM

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/19/duke-scientists-build-theorized-invisibility-cloak-sort-of/

Da @ May 9th 2008 5:20AM

epic fail

Ty @ May 9th 2008 5:30AM

Nick tries really hard... A for effort... lets just leave it at that.

JayFight @ May 9th 2008 5:48AM

umm if i remember correctly i read about this particular incadent with optic camo (the one pictured above) if i remember it right they found that it was a hoax what really happened was nothing more then a camera trick like the ones done with green screen and they were called on it by a site like 2 years ago (give or take) so even though i know it has been worked on (the whole cam here vid there makes you look like your nowhere) the pic being used does nothing more then make you look bad (unless i'm wrong and they disproved a different claim to this tech at which point i would sincerely apologize)