Reality Check - Invisibility Cloaking in Real Life?

If so, that would be tremendous sometimes because on certain days we need to exclude ourselves from everybody.

I think achieving this on a space ship would be wayyyyyyyyy easier, cause u just have to mask your emitted light and heat, like the Normandy :P

This would be good for pervs. Can watch someone having a shower and they have no idea you even there. you dirty bastards, thats why you are interested in this.

On a serious note, say good bye to even smallest amount of privacy you have.

Could you instead cover yourself with something that sends light waves back outside of the visible spectrum making you invisible to the naked eye while allowing you to be able to see your surroundings?

I don't get it, why does that reflective cloaking in the end isn't effective in Stealth? it does look pretty good. How does it work, and why won't it work to camouflage yourself? that Asian guy is pretty well camouflage

This was a good one Cam.

Since there isn't much research at the point of having a person invisible, we really don't know if a person would be blind in that situation. If sight is unavailable, then there would be tech that would be made that would absorb light and allow the user to see.

I Really love reality check... but man that moving light behind him is distracting and annoying :S

Great episode Cam! Love the work you do on these! Keep it up! We love hard work you do on these! I know you do a lot of research on these!

One idea for a future episode I have: A lot of past videos (your and others) have shown what the Kinect version 1.0 could do in scientific practice. Maybe you could show what the potential changes are for Kinect 2.0 (xbox one) might have for scientific/medical practice. The new Kinect can measure more biological aspects. Could this improve scientific/medical/biological science beyond what scientists were doing beyond the Kinect v.1.0? Like: Military/Medical science. How much more can the upgrade in Kinect hardware improve science beyond the last generation? Can its upgrades do anything more beyond its predecessor?

Awesome episode, this show never ceases to grab my interest :)

Doesn't the Invisible Man end up going insane? Of course his invisibility was from a chemical experiment or something that changed his DNA, his invisibility didn't come from a device.

Being invisible sounds fun until you have to walk through a crowd of people.

Seems to me that the moment we do have an invisibility cloak or something is the moment it gets ripped or you spill something on it....

Also, I had no idea the hood of your car was a bonnet. Needed more time in the UK apparently.

You would be completely blind if you were able to bend light around you. But what if you had basically a cutout or a camera at the spot of your eyes. So you'd be invisible, except for some bizarre disembodied eyes floating above the ground.

Actually the ground would look like the suns shining on it if she were inside it. If it bends light around it, the grass would be getting light from the sun that got bent around her, then that light would get bent around it to your eyes. Though I gotta agree that their claims are a giant load of manure.

Eugh he looks so smug on the video thumbnails. Make less of a smug self satisfied face on the thumbnails please, it's off putting to my eye balls

An episode speaking about some weapons in video games would be nice, like the hidden blade on assassin's creed, the gravity gun of HL2 and Gauss rifle in the crysis game series :D

Still good show and nice work cam!

Great episode, nice to see some good physics on reality check! I'm actually studying for an exam on metamaterials at the moment and they have some really cool properties. You can also use them to make 'superlenses' which have some really interesting properties.

Good stuff!

Cameron seems too sure of himself in his belief that we are far off from seeing Cloaking tech. In reality, cloaking tech does exist, it just has not been perfected yet. These kinds of projects are always kept top secret.

Do an episode on laser guns and other futuristic weapons (if you haven't already) great episode by the way.

I believe this cloaking stuff is real and maybe even like it is on Metal Gear Solid. DARPA probably come up with it. They make some pretty awesome things, shame it's all for f**kin' war.

I can easily see this show becoming a new Feedbackula if the comments get more attention in the end.

that would be pretty cool.

i become invisible when people don't look at me.

good ep i thought you had already made a episode about cloaking on a different show awhile back so almost skipped this one.

Anything that's called "HyperStealth BioTech Corp." is clearly a joke.

That was a great episode.

I think.

I didn't understand a word of it and now my head hurts, so yeah, a good show.

There is nothing to check there is already an invisible skyscraper in S. Korea

Isn't that how the Romulan cloak worked in Star Trek TOS?

What about some new theories that a 1960's?

Maybe something more feasible would be the camouflage tech used in the Infiltrator trailer for the Unreal Engine 4. The Infiltrator had a projector on his arm that projected the room behind him to the front of his body, so anyone looking from the other direction won't see him. It's similar to the thing they used in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

A theory for you Cam, if that invisible cloak company were actually somewhat legit they would not be doing what they claim they are but rather photographing the surface where you want to hide, then perhaps using a color changing material to quickly mimic the surface......actually I really like that idea, I should go paten that.

Feedbackula cancelled, yet this boring crap stays?

I never actually thought of that with bending light waves. Here's the theory:

Let's say that you have a field around you of some type that makes light waves bend around you so as to render you invisible. Well, this would effectively make you blind, as there would no longer be any light waves entering your eyes that allow you to see (the field is bending them around you). In short, you can turn invisible, but you'd also be blind!

C'mon Cam, you know there is this tech like this. I can guarantee you it's not from that company you named, since any company with this tech will not be announcing it on the internet, but rather, keep that information for themselves.

Very cool show. Keep it up!

I want to mention the "invisible" wall in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. I put "invisible" in quotes because it was actually using very plausible technology of filming and projecting and special screen material.

I'm going to go watch that scene again.

A mesh would probably fix the issue of being unable to see through an invisibility cloak. Also a good idea for a show would be for the feasibility of instant or chosen mutations in games such as starcraft with the zerg or with the upcoming evolve.

Great show Cam.

You missed referencing Ghost Recon Future Soldier with their invisibility cloak. It worked when crouched or prone on the ground, not standing. It works best when moving very slow or stationary.

It was active, meaning it had a CPU and power to blend in with the surroundings. I believe that was the same/similar for the OctoCamo in MGS4.

The best "invisibility cloak" is to blend in with your surroundings. Don't wear a uniform, wear civilian clothes and look just like a native civilian, and pretend to be your enemy's friend--fool the other person's psyche.

Disguise that military cargo ship as a civilian passenger plane, postal service plane, ect.

Technology will fail, always remember your Ghille suite.

That last Invisibility cloaking cape with the beads would seem to be able to bypass security cameras. Sure it couldn't foil an actual human, but if all you ever see is the object through a camera, then that cloak seems to do the job. Tanks and drones work in the same way, so in fact that technology is perfect for the unmanned battlefield.

Of course other waves would need work; this seems to only work on visible rays.

Three steps: (1) visit Skyrim, (2) chop wood/kill someone with an explosive chicken, (3) cough up a few bucks for an invisibility potion. None of that stupid science needed.