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Hands on with some surprising $80 night vision goggles
- bootload 18y ago"... Unlike more expensive sets, this doesn't amplify light as much as it simply picks up on infrared light ..." Non-passive, you need an IR source to see. So you can see in the dark but can be seen by others with NVG's.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agodude, they're $80. I'm buying some of these. Night time airsoft is going to be FUCKING EPIC.
- bootload 18y ago"... Night time airsoft is going to be FUCKING EPIC ..." True but if everyone is wearing them it will be like walking around with torches on.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agothat makes the game even more fun. otherwise it would just be an exercise of wandering around until you got shot by someone camping the objective. this way theres the fun of switching it off to sneak around but being unable to see anyone.
- marvin 18y agoYou should be able to switch off the lantern, but keep the sensor on. So you can sneak up on the others. Actually, there's a low tech solution: cover the LED with your hand.
- wumi 18y agoreally? you will not be shooting accurately (if there is such a thing in airsoft) with limited to no depth perception. decent NVDs pick up ambient light, even more advanced ones thermal imaging systems. read up on it :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_vision_device http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_vision_device
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoglow in the dark bb's act as tracers. also: I find it amusing how people are trying to convince me this isn't going to be fun.
- wumi 18y agothe thought of glow in the dark rounds as tracers actually sounds quite amusing. I just remarked that it's going to be harder than it seems, nobody said anything about fun. airsoft by its nature is silly and unrealistic. so is laser tag, paintball, and other mock war games. and yet, i enjoy them all.
- wumi 18y agoyou ever used NVDs? I think it's difficult to understand for those who haven't tried them out. Even with a good set of NVDs, like the PVS-7 or PVS-14, its still a bit difficult to get oriented, and depth perception -- well good luck with that. I really can't imagine using an $80 pair and expecting anything more than marginally better than just adjusting your eyes to the dark (although admittedly this can take 30 minutes or so) Humans clearly were not made to see in the dark.
- rw 18y agoHumans clearly were made to see in the light. ...Or not.
- zitterbewegung 18y agoThose goggles almost look like they are from splinter cell.
- HeyLaughingBoy 18y agoThey are cool looking. I was in Target yesterday shopping for my son's birthday and thought of getting them, but the predictable "take those things off and get back in bed" conversations made me decide on a Transformer instead :-) OTOH, it would be pretty easy to build one of these with a webcam, a small screen and some IR LEDs. I live out in the country and I've been thinking of doing that to spy on the wildlife at night. I have everything I need except the screen.
- razzmataz 18y agofrom what I've seen on the internet and dissecting web cams, you merely need to remove a small piece of glass that filters IR light from the webcam and oula! you have a cheap IR camera.