[dagnabbit]

It's not "fake". This coat demo was also shown on Fox News. What the article sort of glosses over, however, is that the guy is standing in front of a video projector which is projecting the scene taken by a TV camera on a tripod behind him. The special thing the coat does is to glow enough to make the projected mage plainly visible in daylight. Otherwise, a white cotton coat could be used.

[Elsie]

...scene taken by a TV camera on a tripod behind him. <./I>

I had WONDERED about that diagonal line, just below the biker's foot, that went behind the 'coat'.

I understand how that works now you've explained it. But the ZOOM on the projector should have made the imgae bigger (smaller?) on the coat.

While the technology appears like it would work, i'll ONLY do it from ONE direction and THEN only if you have a camera on one side and a projector on the other!

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Sure not very PRACTICAL, is it!?

[bootyist-monk]

Actually, the US military has a version of the this a lot closer to reality than you might think. They are developing a system called adaptive camouflage that utilizes electrically charged material (similar to a wearable LCD panel) that mimics its surrounding by shifting colors at a pixel level. It also negates IR and heat signatures.

Overall effect is similar to the cloaking in "Predator".

Bootyist