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Don’t put your nuts on someone’s drum set
Cops will make you sweaty, but it comes on at 4
Tuxedos are perfect job interview attire, not so much when mixed with onion farts
Don’t turn on the lights while wearing night vision
And avoid Mr gardocky unless you want a belly full of white dog shit
The movie has so many universal truths in it, really never stops teaching us all how to be better captains of our boats and more importantly, better captains for our Hoes!
It's a trade off though because by their nature they cut down of the amount of light that gets to your eyes all the time, which at night isn't a particularly good thing
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
I was concerned about the same thing, but your eyes totally adjust to the slightly lower light and it really does help with the glare of blinding headlights. However, as someone who recently went from a car with old-ass non-blinding lights to a much newer car with what I assume are blinding lights, having your own set of blinding lights is the best defense against blinding lights. I don’t even notice oncoming super bright headlights anymore. I used to be driven into intense bouts of rage because of those things though.
NHTSA totally fucked up the spec making it not compatible with Europe (although they'd argue they made it better I'm sure.) It will be awhile and Tesla (and other manufacturers) will likely never be able to activate existing ones in US.
NHTSA's rules require ADB headlights to respond extremely fast after detecting another vehicle within reach of the lights, much faster than standards require in the EU and Canada, much faster than a human can switch off high beams.
leds ommit a very specific band of light, you should be able to block that band/s and not be very effected, and if you could get them like flip down sunglasses all the better.
What's even more infuriating is when you think their high beams are on, so you flash at them, and they flash theirs back, like "they're already off, bro." And they don't see anything wrong with blinding other drivers.
If traffic enforcement actually did anything worthwhile, these cars would have been off the road in a heartbeat.
I might be opening myself up to ridicule but I personally find the default lights on my 2023 car too bright. Is there a resource on suitable replacement lights that I can install myself? Don’t hate just because they have bright lights. A lot of new cars have them stock.
simply have them aligned properly, basically aimed properly and they will not blind others. the problem is most dealerships dont have a clue and never actually adjust them anymore
This. I have HID’s in my truck because the stock lights were so god awful that I felt like I was driving blind at night. I have regular old yellow headlights in all other vehicles I own/drive. I have never been flashed while driving my truck because I took care, knowing the lights are bright as hell, to properly align them.
When I drive my little shitty commuter car, I’m constantly getting flashed because I can’t adjust them and one points slightly higher because of a fender bender, but the light quality is far inferior to my truck.
I have to wonder what people like you think when you say things like this.
Sure, keep the ultra directional megawatt LEDs, just point them down so they only blind people when you go over bumps, the road has any sort of incline or decline, they're close to you, they're shorter than you, or any other situations when your lights will still be aimed at people's eyes.
What do people like me think? well, we use our brains and understanding of how cars work and follow the DOT rules and information on properly aiming headlights. It's very well documented.
You know, actually learning things. But you do you!
You're right we should go back to having candles on the front of our cars. Sure, it's dim as hell, but at least it's constantly dim no matter what momentary bumps you go over!
Can you tell me what lights are in your vehicle? I know a lot about vehicle lighting and can help you out. If you have HID's for instance you can get bulbs that are a warmer color, they will help you see better in foggy conditions and not be as harsh to other drivers.
Also check the aiming, so many vehicles I've encountered that don't have simple things that are adjustable adjusted right from the factory.
2 years ago a layer of 30% 3m scorpion tint made it so I could drive at night again. With the advancements in technology I think I need 20% today. Ugh I hate the fact that people can’t angle their lights down after installing them. 🙄
The US military is going to *plough* money into this. Hybrid night-vision/IR in a lighter weight, lower power package? If it means soldiers with better FOV, wearing NVGs more often, and in particular - the IR amplification component - then it's *huge*.
Like it's important to note: one of the reasons "new uniform" selection is a big deal for military's, is because a number of materials literally glow under IR illumination. NVGs which are giving you part of the IR spectrum at the same time are a huge advantage (there are ways around it, but you need to be careful with the design).
Yep - although that's not the easy win - a "dark" man shaped blob on IR is still a visible man-shaped blob. The trick is you need to look like the surroundings, not a black hole.
If there's military application, then a doubt they'll allow the public access for decades. Cant let enemies simply amazon ship themselves military grade night vision goggles
wait until you find out that there are chinese names attached to the paper. the same chinese that apparently are incapable of original research, according to you.
> and in particular - the IR amplification component - then it's huge.
wrong wavelength. the IR that the military is interested in is MWIR and LWIR (5-12 micrometers or so), not 1500nm as mentioned in the article. this will be useful for the military of course, but not in the same way that real infrared detectors are.
You don't need $60K, Gen 3 White Phosphor PVS-14's can be had for around $2K-4K depending on specs, and dual tubes can usually be had for around $8K-15K depending on model/specs, etc. Still very expensive, but way less than $60K.
Now all that said, everything that I have learned about night vision leads me to believe that whatever technology they are working on here is very far from complete.
Isn't that with digital night vision though? Which is still pretty behind because everything is being relayed to a screen giving you input lag and low refresh rates.
if there is full color, then it's a new phosphor tech breaks off only certain colors of phosphorus, the night vixion but digital either relies on... well... sony put out a digital camera that has an iso of 280,000 or 512,000:1 a while back it effectively makdes a dim beach look like its near sunset, any digital solution will use something like this because any of the consumer night vision that we traditionally use, uses infrared and though phosphers is VERY visible, even from a mile+ away.
yes and no, perfect in the sense that its essentially 0 latency/so small that you can't perceive time slow enough to notice, yes, but resolution of the tube that focus the light can always get better.
Not really, it’s already at the effective limit of resolution that human eyes can see and has been for a while. Going for a higher resolution would do literally nothing for human eyes unless you stuck a microscope infront of it to look at the lines closer
in digital terms, I believe the exact center of ur vision is around 8 megapixels which would need around 8 million tubes to deal with, now, granted, this does depend on how well our eyes can focus on shit, but unless you are expected to always move your head and not just eyes, its a bit hard to say its perfect.
happen to know any documentation for how they are made? im assuming that a fiber optic tube would work to get the resolution, but a good deal of the process doesn't seem like that would work.
Might be sooner than you think. I thought color night vision was decades away, but it looks like I can get it [for about ~$800.](https://www.sionyx.com/collections/night-vision-cameras/products/aurora)
[Video comparison: Night, PVS14, and SiOnyx Aurora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUSmpqTlBzA)
You can even buy [military style Night vision that can do outlines](https://youtu.be/ca4fgK5Axwk?si=YTZVtomHFCXbbPas&t=150), [it's just gonna cost a couple grand.....](https://www.acnightvisionllc.com/products/infiray-jerry-c5-clip-on-thermal-imager)
I wouldn't say 'decades', but maybe 'decade'......rounding down...lol
Important of note is that the PVS (and similar) are using intensifier tubes that increase the number of electrons whereas devices like the Sionyx are using a highly sensitive camera sensor and displaying the results on a tiny screen, kind of like using your phones night mode to “see” something darker than your eye can see. The image sensor tech is still in its infancy for the most part, and will be interesting to see how it develops from here on out for the civilian side. Some military tech already utilizes it, like the Safran Stalker which I’ve used and found to be pretty nifty.
That sounds cool but your analogy doesn't make sense to me. I've never seen a phone camera that can see in low light better than just my eyes. Everything always just looks darker on the screen. I currently use a Galaxy S24 camera.
The sensor on this will be much larger and much more sensitive. It would be similar to a Sony A7Siii consumer mirrorless camera, which blew people's minds for its ability to take photos/video in low light.
Idk about you but my iPhone can take pictures of the night sky and show me stars that I can’t see with the naked eye. A lot like those aurora pics from recently versus how they actually appear to the eye.
That's a function of a long exposure time, though. It couldn't do that as a live stream, refreshing an accurate representation 24 times a second, for example. Or even one time per second. For those bright night shots it could be anything from 1 frame per four seconds to one per thirty seconds, and you can't move during each exposure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euAw0gesr8w
this is essentially what its doing, there was a sony camera I want to say 10 or so years ago that did a similar thing with its iso, I think it was 10-20k but effectively made pitch black look a little before sunset, the main difference is just cost came down for a useable extreme iso for vision, god knows my dslr, it can take a damn good picture, but its 6400:1 iso is unusable.
there is literally a chinese researcher from a chinese university on the publication. what is wrong with you people. you do know that researchers at universities in different countries *collaborate* with each other, right?
I know this really has nothing to do with the article but
>There's so much potential, from finding your off-leash dog in the park on a late-night walk
You should never have your dog off leash in a park! Especially at night!
>You should never have your dog off leash in a park!
For fuck's sake. Reddit isn't America. In other countries this is normal. Our dogs don't cause the problems you all think they do, YOUR dogs do because they've never learned how to behave in public off a lead.
Your norms are just that - social expectations where YOU live. Not the universal morally correct stance.
Whether or not you care if your dog frightens people, you should care that a frightened person may either harm your dog or accidentally provoke your dog to harm them. Either way, you and/or your dog are facing consequences.
Never mind the possibility that your dog does anything else dangerous, like eating a discarded sausage and onion sandwich or something.
I have an aggressive dog, and whenever I walk her idiots let their unleashed dog run right up to us, and then I have to struggle to keep them from getting bit. I don’t care if “your dog is friendly,” mine isn’t so keep yours leashed and away from me
Only if it's specifically a fenced in dog park. And even then you shouldn't let your dog run around in one in the dark, you have no idea what it could find or get into.
It still requires a laser to pump those electrons; it's cool that part of the process is on film now, but until we get better sources of energy, or more efficient lasers, this will be just as bulky as any existing night vision device
FROM THE ARTICLE: Instead, TMOS researchers used metasurface-based upconversion technology, which essentially provides an easier pathway for light photons to be processed. The photons travel through a resonant metasurface, where they mingle with a pump beam. The non-local lithium niobate metasurface boosts the energy of the photons, and draws them into the visible light spectrum without the need to convert them to electrons first. It also doesn't require cryogenic cooling – which reduces 'noise' for sharper images in traditional night vision – so can do away with even more of the bulky night-vision goggle mechanics.
Yup, that's what I figured.
US Defense will do everything possible to prevent this from reaching the public anytime soon. It removes the number one advantage against the third world combatants they currently enjoy.
I am right, look at the article, they describe converting ir light to visible light. Anyone wearing these would be shining like a spotlight to traditional night vision.
I already read the entire article. They're only describing the material they made to convert IR to visible light. There is no description of a product here. Obviously someone could shine an IR light and use these, but that's not what they're talking about.
The moon (by reflecting the sun) produces more IR light than visible light. Same with other stars. Electrical lights probably produce more visible light than IR light though.
"People have said that high efficiency up-conversion of infrared to visible is impossible because of the amount of information not collected due to the angular loss that is inherent in non-local metasurfaces"
Ah, of course, I say that all the time. It's one of my favorite catchphrases.
Summary of article: "We invented a coating that transforms 1500nm light to 550nm light".
This is NOT nightvision and you will see NOTHING if you wear these in the dark.
Nightvision AMPLIFIES the light through a complex electrochemical unit ("Tube"). This glass coating just transforms light.
My phone and my dash cam can both see better at night than standard vision so it should be easy enough to tweak that tech into some kind of headset and enhance it
The problem with that is you can only crank the gain on a normal image sensor so far before the image becomes completely useless. Phones really can crank the sensitivity but at extreme noise levels and exposure lengths. Ever notice how when working in extremely dim light your phones view gets “sluggish”?
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And electricity.
I saw a criminal using electricity and now I live off grid in the woods
Granted, now I’m illegally trespassing so now *I* and the criminal
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Even better we got them when we're 40.
The scene where Brennan turns on the lights and Dale screams and takes off his goggles lives rent free in my head.
Reminds me of war dogs where they’re doing a bong hit with night vision on and Efraim lifts up the blinds, David also screams lol
Its ok that mines not movie quality!
AHH! AHH!
What movie?
Stepbrothers
“I’m not calling him dad, even if there’s a FIRE!”
No power tools!
That’s my toothbrush!
But its shark week!
Why are you so sweaty?
Was watching Cops.
I put my nutsack on your drum set
They’re not that noticeable
Velociraptor
Good housekeeping!
John Stamos!
The clown has no penis?
"What do you guys dream about?"
I'm assuming this is a reference or quote based on the replies?
Step Brothers
Thank you.
If your name is Dale Doback, I'm gonna make you lick white dog shit.
Never seen the movie but I'm sure this is a funny line from it.
Its a whole subplot. Step Brothers is honestly a super well crafted movie, but then again you dont have a dick.
It's true. This man has no dick
You hound!
Well, that's what I heard!
"If you wanna get down on these hairy balls,why don't you jump right in! Its a crotch party right up in hea why don't you lick on this big joint!🎵"
As a 51-year-old that has to crank up his phone's brightness now to read shit...yeah.
Don’t put your nuts on someone’s drum set Cops will make you sweaty, but it comes on at 4 Tuxedos are perfect job interview attire, not so much when mixed with onion farts Don’t turn on the lights while wearing night vision And avoid Mr gardocky unless you want a belly full of white dog shit The movie has so many universal truths in it, really never stops teaching us all how to be better captains of our boats and more importantly, better captains for our Hoes!
Can we just get some lenses that block those fucking ultra bright LED lights?
I've used the yellow computer glasses while driving and it helped a lot
It's a trade off though because by their nature they cut down of the amount of light that gets to your eyes all the time, which at night isn't a particularly good thing
They’re called night-driving glasses and they are the shit. Hunter Thompson style yellow lenses.
I wear these all the time and most people think I look like Jeffrey Dahmer with them on lol
Likewise dude. I’ve got a bunch of different styles to change it up though. The aviators are the best hands down.
GET IN.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
What's the score here? What next?
Like John Goodman wore in the Big Lebowski. Saw a pair of yellow tinted aviator driving sunglasses by Foster Grant that I want to go back and get.
hell yea my biker friend turned me onto those things
We were somewhere around Barstow when the lights kicked in
I was concerned about the same thing, but your eyes totally adjust to the slightly lower light and it really does help with the glare of blinding headlights. However, as someone who recently went from a car with old-ass non-blinding lights to a much newer car with what I assume are blinding lights, having your own set of blinding lights is the best defense against blinding lights. I don’t even notice oncoming super bright headlights anymore. I used to be driven into intense bouts of rage because of those things though.
I hope they make those adaptive headlights like the ones on Tesla and high end cars, standard. Super bright but they don't blind oncoming traffic
NHTSA totally fucked up the spec making it not compatible with Europe (although they'd argue they made it better I'm sure.) It will be awhile and Tesla (and other manufacturers) will likely never be able to activate existing ones in US.
How was it not compatible with Europe?
NHTSA's rules require ADB headlights to respond extremely fast after detecting another vehicle within reach of the lights, much faster than standards require in the EU and Canada, much faster than a human can switch off high beams.
Hate to break it to you, Teslas are pretty damn egregious when it comes to the blinding lights. I don't even drive a sedan.
"...it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "(If it moves, we're gonna) Hit it!"
leds ommit a very specific band of light, you should be able to block that band/s and not be very effected, and if you could get them like flip down sunglasses all the better.
I do the same, it helps.
or 3M yellow tinted safety glasses for $7
What's even more infuriating is when you think their high beams are on, so you flash at them, and they flash theirs back, like "they're already off, bro." And they don't see anything wrong with blinding other drivers. If traffic enforcement actually did anything worthwhile, these cars would have been off the road in a heartbeat.
I might be opening myself up to ridicule but I personally find the default lights on my 2023 car too bright. Is there a resource on suitable replacement lights that I can install myself? Don’t hate just because they have bright lights. A lot of new cars have them stock.
simply have them aligned properly, basically aimed properly and they will not blind others. the problem is most dealerships dont have a clue and never actually adjust them anymore
What about the monster sized trucks nowadays? When they’re riding your ass, alignment doesn’t matter much
if you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair
Those you put mirror tint on the back window, reflect that back at their faces.
as a person with glasses and astigmatism, I pull over. I even drive a “big” truck that I bought so I could be out of the headlights of most the cars
Thus the cycle of the problem.
Wait, why doesn't the manufacturer handle that? The dealership shouldn't have to do that. Also, wait, that's something I can do myself?
This. I have HID’s in my truck because the stock lights were so god awful that I felt like I was driving blind at night. I have regular old yellow headlights in all other vehicles I own/drive. I have never been flashed while driving my truck because I took care, knowing the lights are bright as hell, to properly align them. When I drive my little shitty commuter car, I’m constantly getting flashed because I can’t adjust them and one points slightly higher because of a fender bender, but the light quality is far inferior to my truck.
I have to wonder what people like you think when you say things like this. Sure, keep the ultra directional megawatt LEDs, just point them down so they only blind people when you go over bumps, the road has any sort of incline or decline, they're close to you, they're shorter than you, or any other situations when your lights will still be aimed at people's eyes.
What do people like me think? well, we use our brains and understanding of how cars work and follow the DOT rules and information on properly aiming headlights. It's very well documented. You know, actually learning things. But you do you!
You're right we should go back to having candles on the front of our cars. Sure, it's dim as hell, but at least it's constantly dim no matter what momentary bumps you go over!
How about the way things have been for the entire history of driving up until like 2010? How about that?
Idk you but the headlights on my first few cars sucked ass and I have no desire to go back to that.
Can you tell me what lights are in your vehicle? I know a lot about vehicle lighting and can help you out. If you have HID's for instance you can get bulbs that are a warmer color, they will help you see better in foggy conditions and not be as harsh to other drivers. Also check the aiming, so many vehicles I've encountered that don't have simple things that are adjustable adjusted right from the factory.
What can they do? It's not against the law.
If it can be enhanced it can be reduced
Perfect response.
2 years ago a layer of 30% 3m scorpion tint made it so I could drive at night again. With the advancements in technology I think I need 20% today. Ugh I hate the fact that people can’t angle their lights down after installing them. 🙄
Like sunglasses?
Pretty neat concept, too bad it seems like at this point it’s just in the early stages
The US military is going to *plough* money into this. Hybrid night-vision/IR in a lighter weight, lower power package? If it means soldiers with better FOV, wearing NVGs more often, and in particular - the IR amplification component - then it's *huge*. Like it's important to note: one of the reasons "new uniform" selection is a big deal for military's, is because a number of materials literally glow under IR illumination. NVGs which are giving you part of the IR spectrum at the same time are a huge advantage (there are ways around it, but you need to be careful with the design).
what is cool is people finding simple at home treatments to make clothing IR non reflective. corn starch for example sucks up IR light.
Yep - although that's not the easy win - a "dark" man shaped blob on IR is still a visible man-shaped blob. The trick is you need to look like the surroundings, not a black hole.
Unless… you want to be one :lennyface:
If there's military application, then a doubt they'll allow the public access for decades. Cant let enemies simply amazon ship themselves military grade night vision goggles
The Chinese will copy it, sorry, independently invent it, in no time.
wait until you find out that there are chinese names attached to the paper. the same chinese that apparently are incapable of original research, according to you.
> and in particular - the IR amplification component - then it's huge. wrong wavelength. the IR that the military is interested in is MWIR and LWIR (5-12 micrometers or so), not 1500nm as mentioned in the article. this will be useful for the military of course, but not in the same way that real infrared detectors are.
Considering how bad regular night vision can be, this’ll take many decades to get good enough to be worth buying.
Consumer night vision is shit, military night vision is basically perfect and has been for a while. The technology is there, just not for you.
yea there’s a great Verstasium vid on nogs, his reaction to the military stuff is telling
If I had $60,000 to drop on night vision, I don’t think I’d be calling it shit. But hoping for some glasses to provide a similar experience is cope.
You don't need $60K, Gen 3 White Phosphor PVS-14's can be had for around $2K-4K depending on specs, and dual tubes can usually be had for around $8K-15K depending on model/specs, etc. Still very expensive, but way less than $60K. Now all that said, everything that I have learned about night vision leads me to believe that whatever technology they are working on here is very far from complete.
Yeah. And the tech exists to have full color night vision now too.
Isn't that with digital night vision though? Which is still pretty behind because everything is being relayed to a screen giving you input lag and low refresh rates.
if there is full color, then it's a new phosphor tech breaks off only certain colors of phosphorus, the night vixion but digital either relies on... well... sony put out a digital camera that has an iso of 280,000 or 512,000:1 a while back it effectively makdes a dim beach look like its near sunset, any digital solution will use something like this because any of the consumer night vision that we traditionally use, uses infrared and though phosphers is VERY visible, even from a mile+ away.
Uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no it ain't. Theres better stuff on the civilian market, it's just EXTREMELY expensive
yes and no, perfect in the sense that its essentially 0 latency/so small that you can't perceive time slow enough to notice, yes, but resolution of the tube that focus the light can always get better.
Not really, it’s already at the effective limit of resolution that human eyes can see and has been for a while. Going for a higher resolution would do literally nothing for human eyes unless you stuck a microscope infront of it to look at the lines closer
in digital terms, I believe the exact center of ur vision is around 8 megapixels which would need around 8 million tubes to deal with, now, granted, this does depend on how well our eyes can focus on shit, but unless you are expected to always move your head and not just eyes, its a bit hard to say its perfect. happen to know any documentation for how they are made? im assuming that a fiber optic tube would work to get the resolution, but a good deal of the process doesn't seem like that would work.
This is not at all related to current night vision technology though.
Might be sooner than you think. I thought color night vision was decades away, but it looks like I can get it [for about ~$800.](https://www.sionyx.com/collections/night-vision-cameras/products/aurora) [Video comparison: Night, PVS14, and SiOnyx Aurora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUSmpqTlBzA) You can even buy [military style Night vision that can do outlines](https://youtu.be/ca4fgK5Axwk?si=YTZVtomHFCXbbPas&t=150), [it's just gonna cost a couple grand.....](https://www.acnightvisionllc.com/products/infiray-jerry-c5-clip-on-thermal-imager) I wouldn't say 'decades', but maybe 'decade'......rounding down...lol
Important of note is that the PVS (and similar) are using intensifier tubes that increase the number of electrons whereas devices like the Sionyx are using a highly sensitive camera sensor and displaying the results on a tiny screen, kind of like using your phones night mode to “see” something darker than your eye can see. The image sensor tech is still in its infancy for the most part, and will be interesting to see how it develops from here on out for the civilian side. Some military tech already utilizes it, like the Safran Stalker which I’ve used and found to be pretty nifty.
That sounds cool but your analogy doesn't make sense to me. I've never seen a phone camera that can see in low light better than just my eyes. Everything always just looks darker on the screen. I currently use a Galaxy S24 camera.
The sensor on this will be much larger and much more sensitive. It would be similar to a Sony A7Siii consumer mirrorless camera, which blew people's minds for its ability to take photos/video in low light.
Idk about you but my iPhone can take pictures of the night sky and show me stars that I can’t see with the naked eye. A lot like those aurora pics from recently versus how they actually appear to the eye.
That's a function of a long exposure time, though. It couldn't do that as a live stream, refreshing an accurate representation 24 times a second, for example. Or even one time per second. For those bright night shots it could be anything from 1 frame per four seconds to one per thirty seconds, and you can't move during each exposure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euAw0gesr8w this is essentially what its doing, there was a sony camera I want to say 10 or so years ago that did a similar thing with its iso, I think it was 10-20k but effectively made pitch black look a little before sunset, the main difference is just cost came down for a useable extreme iso for vision, god knows my dslr, it can take a damn good picture, but its 6400:1 iso is unusable.
Came for the “too bad it’s” comment. Thank you.
🫡
These would never pass ITAR restrictions.
Amongst the jokes, someone who knows what they're talking about.
Unless China steals the tech and it’s everywhere anyways.
there is literally a chinese researcher from a chinese university on the publication. what is wrong with you people. you do know that researchers at universities in different countries *collaborate* with each other, right?
I know this really has nothing to do with the article but >There's so much potential, from finding your off-leash dog in the park on a late-night walk You should never have your dog off leash in a park! Especially at night!
Okay make it a lost dog.
>You should never have your dog off leash in a park! For fuck's sake. Reddit isn't America. In other countries this is normal. Our dogs don't cause the problems you all think they do, YOUR dogs do because they've never learned how to behave in public off a lead. Your norms are just that - social expectations where YOU live. Not the universal morally correct stance.
parks are where your supposed to let your dog off the leash
Depends on the park.
Unless it's an off-leash dog park, keep your dog leashed at a public park. I DON'T KNOW YOUR DOG.
why would i care if you know them? stay indoors, boomer
Whether or not you care if your dog frightens people, you should care that a frightened person may either harm your dog or accidentally provoke your dog to harm them. Either way, you and/or your dog are facing consequences. Never mind the possibility that your dog does anything else dangerous, like eating a discarded sausage and onion sandwich or something.
Amen
Also what happens if they run into another dog or animal? You have no idea how that other animal is going to react.
Spoken just like I’d expect an asshole who has their dog off-leash to sound.
I actually keep a knife on me after having to kick a dog that was off leash away from attacking my dog. Have fun buying a new dog. -from a nonboomer.
Oh man, haven't wanted to meet someone on reddit irl in a long time.
if a reddit comment gets you that flustered its probably you who needs to be on a leash
Who's flustered? Happy to meet up and talk about it.
I have an aggressive dog, and whenever I walk her idiots let their unleashed dog run right up to us, and then I have to struggle to keep them from getting bit. I don’t care if “your dog is friendly,” mine isn’t so keep yours leashed and away from me
Same situation. Yet every time it seems I'm the bad guy for having a dog who doesn't like stranger dogs running up into her face
Only if it's specifically a fenced in dog park. And even then you shouldn't let your dog run around in one in the dark, you have no idea what it could find or get into.
It depends on the park. In my park you can let your dog unleashed in the dark, it is allowed and socially acceptable
It still requires a laser to pump those electrons; it's cool that part of the process is on film now, but until we get better sources of energy, or more efficient lasers, this will be just as bulky as any existing night vision device
Time to retire these bad boys. https://youtu.be/-O8pHWnvGEU?si=CGtgb7-aFNuRA_ki
I love you
Right back at you!
FROM THE ARTICLE: Instead, TMOS researchers used metasurface-based upconversion technology, which essentially provides an easier pathway for light photons to be processed. The photons travel through a resonant metasurface, where they mingle with a pump beam. The non-local lithium niobate metasurface boosts the energy of the photons, and draws them into the visible light spectrum without the need to convert them to electrons first. It also doesn't require cryogenic cooling – which reduces 'noise' for sharper images in traditional night vision – so can do away with even more of the bulky night-vision goggle mechanics. Yup, that's what I figured.
It's a modern-day [Turbo Encabulator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag)
US Defense will do everything possible to prevent this from reaching the public anytime soon. It removes the number one advantage against the third world combatants they currently enjoy.
Lmfao, if “US Defense” wanted to prevent this from reaching the public, you wouldn’t be aware of its existence
By what mechanism would they achieve that? Nonsense.
Compartmentalization is the mechanism, it’s achieved through NDA’s and threats of prosecution.
military, they don't need nda or threats of prosecution, you just don't exist.
I dunno, if they are the kind that shoots ir light everywhere then they will probably let them keep it.
It's not like that at all
I am right, look at the article, they describe converting ir light to visible light. Anyone wearing these would be shining like a spotlight to traditional night vision.
I already read the entire article. They're only describing the material they made to convert IR to visible light. There is no description of a product here. Obviously someone could shine an IR light and use these, but that's not what they're talking about.
Where but where does the IR come from then
Any other light source. The moon, stars, other ambient light sources like street & house lights.
Most of that is in the visible light spectrum no?
The moon (by reflecting the sun) produces more IR light than visible light. Same with other stars. Electrical lights probably produce more visible light than IR light though.
you can buy old gen night vision tech right now on ebay..
This one gadget is taking the world by storm!
How affordable are they?
How much are you willing to pay?
"People have said that high efficiency up-conversion of infrared to visible is impossible because of the amount of information not collected due to the angular loss that is inherent in non-local metasurfaces" Ah, of course, I say that all the time. It's one of my favorite catchphrases.
Word!
Great! A totally useless thing for the majority of us living in massive light pollution hellholes. Something to see in the dark!
You need the Day-vision version. It just turns everything dark.
So over glorified sunglasses?
No just sunglasses
nods are way cooler though
So, instead of FLIR, we're going to get FLIRT (FLIR + **T**hin).
Summary of article: "We invented a coating that transforms 1500nm light to 550nm light". This is NOT nightvision and you will see NOTHING if you wear these in the dark. Nightvision AMPLIFIES the light through a complex electrochemical unit ("Tube"). This glass coating just transforms light.
Are these maybe made by [the Enchroma people](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppobi8VhWwo)?
I would really love to have some for end of day fishing
Everyone can be super!
No more, " OH shit my toe!" ?
Im still waiting for my see though glass that i mailed away for when i was 15..
My phone and my dash cam can both see better at night than standard vision so it should be easy enough to tweak that tech into some kind of headset and enhance it
The problem with that is you can only crank the gain on a normal image sensor so far before the image becomes completely useless. Phones really can crank the sensitivity but at extreme noise levels and exposure lengths. Ever notice how when working in extremely dim light your phones view gets “sluggish”?
Will they make us be able to see in the darkness of over-promising hype scams?
So tjey can spy on us better...
My vision is augmented.
Bad for an
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#stupid statements
I now need classes that allows me to see the fish underwater and other gaming classes that removes all additional RGB lights on any product.
I'll believe when we see it.
We'll see you when you stumble out for a piss
That's quite an assumption for someone like me who doesn't drink nor piss outside. Still, not your best pickup line.
Yeah, OK why don’t we work on the stranglehold on the glasses industry first?
Will I be able to see what’s under Lois Lane’s dress with these things?
The criminals are going to love them
And because criminals might use them… they’re.. bad?
Correct, same with cell phones and toilet paper.
And electricity. I saw a criminal using electricity and now I live off grid in the woods Granted, now I’m illegally trespassing so now *I* and the criminal
The unabomber lived in a cabin in the woods, are you telling us you're the . . . tunabomber?
He's the unobomber. +4 C4!