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*if an object is moving a crude shape of the object can be made out "seeing inside a closed room" is a bit of a stretch
by mellow-lake-day 5y ago
*if an object is moving a crude shape of the object can be made out
"seeing inside a closed room" is a bit of a stretch
- TeMPOraL 5y agoThat's quite a lot more than not seeing anything. Could be useful if your goal is to determine the number and type of occupants in the room before entering it. I could imagine all kinds of mischief bringers being interested in this. As a bonus, if your keyhole is wide enough, I guess you could image static objects by moving the laser around.
- krisoft 5y agoOr you can just jam a borescope through the keyhole and see things that way. I don’t think peeping through a keyhole into a room was a hard thing even before this.
- hnlmorg 5y agoI don't think it's a stretch. You are seeing inside it, just with extremely low fidelity but the headline made no claim about the fidelity. Something like this could be really useful for police or armed services who are about to raid a building. I'd wager they'd be the biggest sponsors of taking this study further.
- transpute 5y agoPrior work, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27124691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27124691