Inside the Freaky World of Next-Gen Night Vision

[perdurabo]

If this violates any OPSEC, feel free to delete this. A Wired journalist was given access to some of ITT's development work:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/night-vision/

I'm kind of surprised that unclassified NV technology hasn't advanced that much in the past decade. And I'm surprised they can't fix the analog/digital imaging latency issue. We've had ASICs that can handle just about any image processing tasks in real-time for many, many years.

The article seems to indicate that a monocle system is preferred over a dual goggles setup by soldiers, interesting.

Are there any funding sources for small startups, ala In-Q-Tel, but for the US military community?

Edit: To clarify, I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade, I'm just looking at this as a prime area for market disruption, as a person who used to work on stuff officially, and now works on sensory stuff on the side.

[aaronw]

The only people I see wearing monocles these days are people who don't have anything else. I wasn't around 10 years ago but I've had 7's 14's avs 6's 5050's and now pvs 15s. The 15s are badass and I love em. I've had a few tubes go out over the years tho..

Originally Posted by perdurabo

If this violates any OPSEC, feel free to delete this. A Wired journalist was given access to some of ITT's development work:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/night-vision/

I'm kind of surprised that unclassified NV technology hasn't advanced that much in the past decade. And I'm surprised they can't fix the analog/digital imaging latency issue. We've had ASICs that can handle just about any image processing tasks in real-time for many, many years.

The article seems to indicate that a monocle system is preferred over a dual goggles setup by soldiers, interesting.

Are there any funding sources for small startups, ala In-Q-Tel, but for the US military community?

Edit: To clarify, I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade, I'm just looking at this as a prime area for market disruption, as a person who used to work on stuff officially, and now works on sensory stuff on the side.