South Korea has announced the construction of a building which will turn “invisible” by using cameras and LED projectors.
Tower Infinity will be one of the tallest buildings in the world, but its notoriety will surely be found in its unique ability to blend into the background using “cloaking” technology which relies on cameras and projectors to send real-time images of the surrounding landscape. This will make the building “disappear” into the background.
The building will hold restaurants, a movie theater, a roller coaster, and a water park.
CNN writes about the invisibility feature:
Cameras will be placed at three different heights on six different sides of the building to capture real-time images of the surroundings; three other sections, each filled with 500 rows of LED screens, will project the individual digital images.
Through digital processing, images will be scaled, rotated and merged to create a seamless panoramic image that appears on the LED rows to create the illusion of invisibility.
No completion date has been announced.
Sources
- Coming soon: World’s first ‘invisible’ tower (Karla Cripps, CNN: September 12, 2013)
- In South Korea, ‘invisible’ Tower Infinity will be an ‘anti-tower’ (Kristen Butler, UPI: September 13, 2013)
