Fellow sci-fi geeks, rejoice! X-ray specs are no longer just for movies, TV shows, and old school comic book advertisements.
MIT engineers have now developed a headset that they say gives the wearer the ability to see through objects. The device—dubbed X-AR—uses augmented reality (AR) to show users if specific items are hidden behind things like boxes or other objects.
It’s not exactly X-ray vision. Instead, the headset uses radio signals to pick up on labels with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on them. However, these labels allow the headset to identify what the object is, and show it to the wearer on the visual display.
If you’re hoping you can use this thing to spy people, you’re out of luck (also, get help). This device is intended to assist workers in places like e-commerce warehouses and retail stores to quickly find and identify objects. It can also help technicians find tools and items they need to assemble products. The team behind the device released a paper of their findings on Feb. 27 and will present it at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in April 2023.
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