▲ | A_D_E_P_T 2 days ago | |||||||
You don't need metamaterials. There are various patents on "invisibility cloak" systems, and most of them use screens and cameras to project what's behind the wearer onto the front-facing screen, e.g.: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016160588A1 Some others, mostly intended for military vehicles, aim to match surface IR emissions to the background. Using metamaterials -- which need to be printed or, even worse, made with lithography techniques -- adds unnecessary cost and vastly increases complexity. | ||||||||
▲ | nine_k 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Screens have a very limited range of brightness. More importantly, they only project a picture in one direction, so, if you can move laterally, you'll notice that it's a flat picture. If metamaterials can alleviate any of that to some degree, they could make a form of invisibility cloak covering large objects practical. | ||||||||
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