This is research at U. Tokyo. I have mentioned this topic here, and
some of these videos. Here is a particularly striking photo of
someone standing in front of a car and tree, half invisible,
ghost-like (second image down):
<http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak2.htm>http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak2.htm
Short videos:
<http://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/movie.php>http://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/movie.php
Spooky ones:
<http://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/movie/bone2.mpg>http://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/movie/bone2.mpg
http://projects.tachilab.org/rpt/movie/oc-okugai3.mpg
This looks kind of silly, and useless, but there is a great deal of
sophisticated programming going on here. The hard part, I expect, is
to have the computer synchronize the image with the objects in the
distance. In the case of the video "bone2 it is displaying a fake,
drawn image which is synchronized to the position on the body where
the screen is held at the moment.
They are doing lots of other nifty stuff:
http://tachilab.org/index.php?easiestml_lang=en
- Jed
