Hyperstealth's Invisible Car - Metamaterial optics bending.

Sooo... plastic sheets with lenticular lenses? Sure, they could work if you're looking at them from afar, and the background has horizontal lines only and there's no sun reflecting off of them, and if whatever's hiding behind them doesn't move, etc. I'd say that's too many ifs for them to be practical outside some very specific situations.
 
Dandelion Eyes said:
Sooo... plastic sheets with lenticular lenses? Sure, they could work if you're looking at them from afar, and the background has horizontal lines only and there's no sun reflecting off of them, and if whatever's hiding behind them doesn't move, etc. I'd say that's too many ifs for them to be practical outside some very specific situations.
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Yeah it doesnt look particularly fancy and will have limited applications but I can totally see this being used to obscure the vehicles for VIP's in a motorcade. I remember an engineer buddy spitballing something similar to this for turning your rec room into a true vr space waaaaay before our modern solutions. He wanted to line the walls with panels like that to give them a parallax effect or something. long forgotten drinking memories.
 
It would have been so much more believable if it wasn't for the color temperature being wrong on the cars blue screen, and the fact that objects which were displaced on the green screen had an appropriate magnitude of change in size, as well as detail, for the difference in distance, as well as on curved surfaces. 5/10

The lenticular lens trick is well known, and has been, since they were created in the early 20th century.

Someone wants to create something really amazing? Make a lenticular lens that can alter the width of the plano-convex cylindrical lenses dynamically so you can minimize blur and consequently maximize optical clarity while still hiding what is behind the lens while it is moving.
 
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…are they trying to pass the intro car videos off as a real application of their technology? Because like, it’s obviously fake, the effect on the car looks nothing like the sheets they show off later in the video, and they literally state that the sheets only work when there is some distance between them and the object being hidden.
 
Gar For Archer said:
…are they trying to pass the intro car videos off as a real application of their technology? Because like, it’s obviously fake, the effect on the car looks nothing like the sheets they show off later in the video, and they literally state that the sheets only work when there is some distance between them and the object being hidden.
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No, they reveal that the car is a hoax just like the chink with a sheet was a chinese hoax, they even show the car before they chroma keyed it out of the shot.
 
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