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One would think with all the money the military throws into imaging technology that they would already have this. For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to
by rl3 10y ago
One would think with all the money the military throws into imaging technology that they would already have this.
For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to have this technology digitally composited in real-time with MWIR imaging on the same wearable device. Base layer could be image intensification with this tech, then overlay any pixels from the MWIR layer above n temperature, and blend it at ~33% opacity. Enough to give an enemy a nice warm glow while still being able to see the expression on their face. Could even have specially made flashbangs that transmit an expected detonation timestamp to the goggles so they know to drop frames or otherwise aggressively filter the image.
Add some active hearing protection with sensitivity that far exceeds human hearing (obviously with tons of filtering/processing), and you're talking a soldier with truly superhuman senses.
That's not to mention active acoustic or EM mapping techniques so the user can see through walls. I mean, USSOCOM is already fast-tracking an "Iron Man" suit, so I don't see why they wouldn't want to replicate Batman's vision while they're at it.
- mschuster91 10y ago> For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to have this technology digitally composited in real-time with MWIR imaging on the same wearable device. Base layer could be image intensification with this tech, then overlay any pixels from the MWIR layer above n temperature, and blend it at ~33% opacity. Enough to give an enemy a nice warm glow while still being able to see the expression on their face. I believe this is what CAT did with their S60 phone camera - fusing together the image of the thermal sensor and the camera to have a high-resolution thermal image even without an expensive-as-hell sensor.
- jamessb 10y ago> For Special Operations use, it'd be nifty to have this technology digitally composited in real-time with MWIR imaging on the same wearable device. Base layer could be image intensification with this tech, then overlay any pixels from the MWIR layer above n temperature, and blend it at ~33% opacity. Enough to give an enemy a nice warm glow while still being able to see the expression on their face See the two images of an SUV (the top one has caption "Color Low Light Night Vision Midnight Image Fused with thermal infrared RED ALERT FLIR Image") on the product page [1]. [1]: https://www.x20.org/color-night-vision/ https://www.x20.org/color-night-vision/
- rl3 10y agoNice. Any idea if it's digitally composited? I've seen image intensification/IR fusion implemented before with analog techniques and wasn't impressed; resulting image had a high amount of jitter and felt shoddy. Perhaps it was just that manufacturer's implementation.
- kobeya 10y ago> One would think with all the money the military throws into imaging technology that they would already have this. They do... the OP points to a product sold to military. The US government develops its military technology buy giving companies like this R&D grants and then buying their product.