I Survived 50 Hours in Thermal Vision

[@RepeatedFailure]

Thanks for hanging out and subjecting yourself to the thermal headset Louis! If you want to spend too much money on complicated projects, you know where I am. For everyone else, if you want to see dumb things over-engineered, check out some of my other stuff.

[@Produkt_R]

Did you manage to fix the first headset?

[@RepeatedFailure]

@@Produkt_R The camera died for good (part of the power supply board roasted). It was still under warranty and was just returned.

[@tippership]

As someone who is obsessed with thermal cameras lol( and I already qualify for spending too much money, 2 Flir pathfindir2 's ( one was destroyed), a therm app hz and therm app pro) - all of this was pretty familiar to me lol What cameras did you use ? Guessing a boson for the first headset? That headset is siiiick- what was it like putting that together ?

[@RepeatedFailure]

@@tippership It was a Flir Vue Pro 640, 69° FOV. I don't even know the Boson's pricing, but the 90 degree FOV would have been nice lol. The backup was a FLIR ONE. I prototyped with a 384x288 thermal core from a scott firefighting camera, but it died for our thermal sins when the shutter wire shorted. The Flir Vue pro was designed for drones, so it output an NTSC signal, allowing us to get very low latency input into FPV goggles in a format compatible with them. The FLIR ONE has high latency, low FPS and was miserable to use. There is no built in function to display the app video in split screen/vr.

[@Peter-xo6hx]

the kid named Out:

[@220Dave220]

Imagine opening an oven and seeing a massive orange cloud blasting towards you

[@NoNoNah306]

Imagine opening your front door and seeing a massive cloud of agent orange blasting towards you. This epic gamer moment brought to you by the US marines.

[@sneakattack9984]

No thanks

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

fire

[@Breadbug412]

imagine you are standing in line for checkout and you see an orange cloud rushing from the ass of the guy on front of you

[@flipwonderland]

I don't think that would happen unless it was super humid foggy hot air or something

[@Wico90YT]

It'd be cool to do this with an assortment of cameras that randomly rotate. So night vision, thermal, Regular etc (I think 3 examples is enough)

[@Weisz]

It’d be sick if we could like make a rig that does that, and then make an interactive program so you could switch it yourself as you watch.

[@aliasd5423]

@@Weisz what if you overlayed them all to have supervision that can see everything at once

[@gibbous_silver]

don’t forget ultraviolet

[@Eingefallen]

@@Weisz The Military will contact you for a contract at that rate, haha, edit: well damn you were already working with them, I wasn't that far into the video

[@sethpolevoi4027]

@@Weisz intel depth cameras record in thermal, depth, and regular all at once. Could look into that

[@CatsT.M]

Cooking in thermal vision sounds really fun because you get to see everything heating up.

[@suddeneevee9441]

Whilest I fully agree, it does sound cool. Not being able to see how the food is doing: raw, done, burned. Is kinda a big downside.

[@CatsT.M]

@@suddeneevee9441 Yeah, you would need someone else with you to make sure it was fully cooked.

[@Autoskip]

@@suddeneevee9441 Curiously, a toaster that checks the temperature of the bread (like the sunbeam radiant control toaster - Technology Connections did a great video on it) will get the toast perfect every time, even adjusting the cook time to account for frozen bread or a recently used toaster, without any fancy tech - so at least for bread/toast, done-ness is almost completely dependant on the temperature, and I suspect that it's probably the same for a lot of foods, so with practice, you'd probably be better at telling if it's done than if you were looking at it with normal colour vision.

[@DaniZeAlmighty]

@@suddeneevee9441 well we could have one eye with thermal vision and one eye without

[@suddeneevee9441]

@@DaniZeAlmighty That sounds like a cool idea, you would have to get used to having your eyes see different light. Since they are used to being used together. Also, fairly ironic to hear from someone with a Demoman profile picture.

[@teslainvestah5003]

"Where did you procure those eggs?" "I procured them over here" "hell yeah"

[@grandmeatman2453]

that man is the chillest person ever

[@scottwilliams846]

4:06 "As I got closer I saw the outline of a mother cradling her child comfortingly" "You're looking at a blank wall" Oh. There's ghosts in there.

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Or he can see through walls.

[@tylisirn]

@@Chara_Dreemurr1 I bet there's a water pipe or AC duct behind the wall.

[@HealthyNugs]

The art gallery experience had me in stiches!

[@nagato2519]

Same 😂

[@catdust]

still might be a cool idea tho, lol

[@BotulinSpikedMarzipan]

Blank wall

[@akulsinator7680]

@@catdust imagine an invisible exhibit. You go through once with nothing seeing the people with goggles stare at blank walls and then again with goggles to see the crazy thermal art

[@catdust]

@@akulsinator7680 this guy gets it!

[@longcat45]

it would be interesting to be able to combine the ir image data with visible light, hot things would be slightly tinted and brighter overlaid

[@TheLtVoss]

Well our brain is incredibly good at mashing 2 pictures together so thermal vision for only 1 eye could work but maby take the colouring out for a black withe image so it the tinting isn't that bad

[@danilooliveira6580]

that and stereoscopic vision, so two thermal cameras.

[@jameszd4470]

Maybe they could have replaced the red channel from RGB with the thermal band? That would be pretty cool

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Certain flir cameras already do something similar that to make the image look more defined around the edges, since the thermal sensor has a pretty low resolution

[@Anastunsia]

I think this might have been a little easier if he still had depth perception aha

[@alexwang982]

You can see shadows in IR if you’re outside

[@solared]

@@alexwang982 they mean 2 cameras, so he could perceive depth from the parallax. shadows only appear if they're stagnant for long enough.

[@AndystanSmith]

I agree, that was probably the real reason playing frisbee and basketball was so hard.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

VR thermal let's go

[@guycxz]

TBH thermal cameras aren't really that different from regular cameras. The difference is in the wavelengths they capture. If the temperature had been some 800-900C greater normal cameras would start detecting heat as well, and so would our eyes.

[@RepeatedFailure]

Tell that to the engineers who make the microbolometers lmao. You can fit dozens of normal color sensors on a thermal one of similar resolution. Normal sensors also don't need to constantly account for image ghosting.

[@bensoncheung2801]

👻💬

[@georgefolk3134]

That's called light hot metal glows hot air glows(plasma/fire) and lots of other things glow when they get hot

[@Georgehanes-GJH105775]

@@georgefolk3134 or just black-body radiation.

[@DarmiGames]

@@georgefolk3134 yep, and normal temperature ojects captured by the IR camera are also emitting light. It's not visible light, but infrared light, which gets captured by the thermal camera. Every object, that has temperature above 0 kelvin emits infrared light.

[@PopFlipCatchStickRol]

What a cool idea! So interesting seeing what you lose when you switch to thermal vision and what you gain.

[@indy_the_awesome4615]

That is a much better title then "I was a predator for 50 hours"

[@erner_wisal]

💀

[@arrislongington9242]

💀

[@JoelCreates]

Hey Louis you should come hang out! Totally just because you are a fun guy, and not because I need you to stare at the multiple thermally critical projects I'm working on...

[@RepeatedFailure]

I too invite Louis to hang out for his...friendship, and totally not his possession of expensive things like high speed cameras. I just really appreciate his assets.

[@3ormore778]

This is like some future next gen test. Imagine this being something normal later on.

[@NoNoNah306]

They're trying out some amazing technology, the haditha trial is really impressive.

[@legitbeans]

You want it to be normal for people to see heat vision?

[@videoms1271]

Dude no one wants to do this 💀 It's highly impractical and confusing to use daily

[@rcd20yearsago48]

I think you couldn't even read since it only detects heat and not light

[@miharius34]

Is thermovisor expensive

[@estiar1956]

The NVGs that the Marines use have a different gradient than that IR camera. It's really cool to look through a set if you ever get the chance.

[@RepeatedFailure]

There are black hot/white hot options on this camera, but they aren't as interesting for youtube. I actually found them easier to use IRL.

[@YungDaggerD1ck8]

3:48 I laughed pretty hard. But when he said “they seemed nice!” I laughed even harder 😂

[@fleckione-workinprogress4249]

The cold and hot water mixing looks amazing!

[@Ph0enix7373]

It would be really cool to have thermal vision completely integrated and be able to just toggle it on and off, I don't think anyone would get bored of it

[@derpknightfully]

"and this is my life in hindsight" Now this one's gonna be a good video

[@jameswhatsit]

This is an interesting experiment, sorta makes you think about the challenges that people with low vision (legal blindness) would face

[@TheMonarchOfTetris]

hilarious video Louis. this nust have given you a mad headache. Cool that you're going to be training with marines, that sounds crazy. also the shirt you copped looks good lmao

[@cathy6659]

Thermal vision is a truly remarkable technology that has revolutionized the way we perceive and interact with the world around us. Personally, I love using my P2 Pro thermal camera for things like checking my house or wildlife observation. It's really a game-changing technology.

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

This is so cool, imagine being able to see just as clearly in pitch black as in daylight

[@DaimyoD0]

1:47 "They detect the exact amount of heat hitting each pixel on the sensor." I really dislike it when textbooks and teachers describe infrared radiation as being synonymous with the word "heat." This obviously isn't a criticism for Louis, just me venting about the way things are widely described and taught. It might be pedantic to some people, but when I was first learning physics, I found this unbelievably confusing. People would just say "infrared (heat)" or vise versa, which frustrated me, because how could a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation alone encompass the entire concept of "heat." It took a while before I received a satisfactory explanation-that there are three main ways to transfer heat, conduction (direct contact), convection (where a surface conducts to fluid which can carry heat away and the energy imparted to it enhances this flow), and radiation (where hot objects emit electromagnetic energy mostly, but not exclusively, in the infrared spectrum, and this energy can then be absorbed by an object, heating it up). And importantly, one of the things we call heat is also known as enthalpy, and on a molecular level it can basically be thought of as random, disordered kinetic energy. I'm sure that's still a huge, middle school level simplification, but for me, it was descriptive enough that I understood that heat wasn't just one thing, especially not just another word for infrared, and this was one of those understandings that was nontrivial for me; it really changed the way I looked at everyday life. You obviously can't fit this whole description in every time you offhandedly say what thermal vision does. I just suspect that students would be less confused if we just said they "detect infrared radiation, which can indicate a surface's temperature," or something like that. Since other factors, like reflectiveness/albedo, and a material's thermal conductivity, can also affect the input to an infrared sensor, right? IDK, maybe this is just a me problem and I'm complaining over nothing. It's just something I've always thought about and wondered if anyone else had this problem.

[@RepeatedFailure]

It is a difficult subject to discuss in a short enough time for a yt video and still retain people. We had more stuff on how a microbolometer works in there, including germanium lens stuff, but it just wasn't worth it.

[@DaFieFie]

Okay nerd. /j

[@DaimyoD0]

@@DaFieFie bro you don't know the half of it I have zero control over where my attention goes lol

[@willweisz2414]

So sick Louis! Glad I was able to make it out and film you eating raw food and riding on scooters hahah!

[@00jp11]

Humans have 7 senses actually. The sense of balance, which allows you to stand, walk, and tell you where down is. And the sense of body, which tells you what position your body is in, and allows you to navigate your limbs and head precisely without looking.

[@Weisz]

“50 hours with no balance” would be a liability lmao

[@bebebiskuvi]

So now we can understand how The Predator lives. Tough life in an alien planet...

[@xi9188]

4:22 bro living in the retro dimension

[@_Jac0bs_]

I was thinking about the same thing xD

[@waveringeyes8277]

I could see you involving tools to help you see things like a mobile hair dryer or an ice pack.

[@theguyjawn]

Him: looking at a blank wall The dude on the other side in the bathroom:

[@djbrine7414]

😂

[@ThemightyTho]

I love these types of challenge videos. Keep it up!

[@Fruitgummyx]

Thermal cameras don't show heat, they show infrared radiation. It just happens to be the case that things at everyday temperatures mainly emit in IR. In many ways a thermal camera works exactly like a normal visual light camera, since IR radiation behaves very similar to visual radiation.

[@TheDevil-qp6ld]

At 4:08 I was laughing because how can a person see a mother cradling a baby in a blank wall 😂😂

[@Turtle1631991]

6:33 Regarding frisbee. The camera being few cm higher than the eyes probably fucks with your hand-camera coordination. Also latency might be an issue if the system is too slow.

[@pypeapple]

I can recognize Pittsburgh’s T stations in any type of vision apparently, so cool seeing familiar landmarks

[@MrRyanroberson1]

what we need is a headset that maps IR -> red, red -> green, and green -> blue. this vision would be incredible, more so than any traditional head set. another option is IR->red, plus green & blue as themselves

[@lemurtheory9350]

Some thing I always thought was a cool idea is when we get a little more cyberpunk like and start adding parts to our bodies is to have as many kinds of mini sensors as possible in a line where my eye brows use to be. thermal, RF, IR, magnetic, night vision, lidar and as many others that exist as possible. Maybe non-visuals installed some where else if there's no room.

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

Yo, this is exactly what I was thinking of throughout the video

[@Amadeus_A]

4:04 To be fair, that's still a pretty accurate experience going to an art gallery.

[@Prisoner4245]

6:05 water cool

[@a7xaddict4676]

Makes me wonder how technology, infrastructure, and the world would look if we had thermal imagining capabilities in our eyes instead of visible light

[@aytee_papi]

6:34 that's because you cant see in 3D troughth the camera

[@drrocketman7794]

Reminds me of wandering around in training with the Army with night vision goggles. You have no depth perception or perspective but you really can see in pitch black.

[@sheesh_jin]

Companies after pride month: 0:33

[@Streloski]

For real 😂

[@ItsartoTV]

June*********

[@retrogamer9119]

This is fantastic! I thought about doing something similar with 360 vision. It would be a wrap around head set, I think I calculated 6 cameras minimum for no blind spots past arm's length, 8 would be optimal. I just don't have the means to make it, nor that level of programming ability.

[@RepeatedFailure]

an insta360 one x2/3 can live stream video, though it would take some programming. You wouldn't need to make a camera rig, just have a way of interpreting the data in a headset.

[@bhutwheyttherismor86]

This was so much better than expected

[@XIIchiron78]

The level of implicit acceptance of walking around wearing this makes me think we are closer than we realize to a real life cyberpunk dystopia

[@sadgirlhours4088]

Louis out here living like The Predator 💀 Now I REALLY dont believe that they see in thermal vision since they have screens

[@BurkeMcCabe]

IT IS PITTSBURGH!!! I thought I recognized it! Ma hometown!

[@zacharyparis4590]

Trying this with a lidar camera / sensor would be interesting to see.

[@Beunibster]

It would look like the game Scanner Sombre

[@RepeatedFailure]

yoink! I am stealing this, as I have a lidar....

[@zacharyparis4590]

​@@RepeatedFailure Good luck!

[@youngyougurt9056]

I LITERALLY SAW THIS GUY JUST WALKING AROUND BRO. TF?

[@HululusLabs]

AR glasses + IR camera might be a pretty good kitchen tool lol

[@EmersonKingYT]

The US Military has now sponsored a mad scientist. What a world

[@fjordling]

I did not expect this to be military propaganda when I started the video, but maybe that's on me

[@RGGaming940]

Love the pride support at the begginning! 👍

[@Tiniuc]

Be interesting to see UV, infared and visible blended together.

[@MamaGypsyFelice]

Cool experiment thank you for sharing.

[@carsonguth7799]

4:54 made me laugh

[@ZUnknownFox]

4:10 - 4:12 has to be my favorite part of this video

[@artfx9]

Wait, so mirrors also reflect heat?

[@joshuatatum8519]

Damn, pleasantly surprised at the quality of this video! Keep reppin the ‘Burgh, subscribed

[@StuffandThings_]

Is it just me or does thermal vision seem *extremely* useful for cars? Like, with the scooter on that path the path was clear as day. I'm not exactly talking for human use, but for self driving AI it seems like thermal vision could provide really, really clear images of roads in certain conditions to help. Like it would be a great feature to corroborate visual and other sensor data.

[@CreamCakes420]

Yeah it’s just weather could really mess with it

[@StuffandThings_]

@@CreamCakes420 Well yeah, that's why you'd still have to heavily rely on other sources, I figured it would just be a great redundancy thing. And even in cold weather sun heats up asphalt quite a bit above ambient, shade and concrete is definitely a concern though. I imagine all the places where its not quite as useful is why this isn't an engineering priority with these systems, but as they develop further you may as well, ya know.

[@CreamCakes420]

@@StuffandThings_ oh my god I forgot about useing multiple systems I can’t believe I overlooked that , thanks dude

[@extremlycoolperson]

2:13 why is it always primal instinct to write hi whenever people figure out you can write with something not meant to write😂

[@forgingluck]

Since I have a phone with thermal vision as one of the camera modules I completely understand firsthand why you did this video 😂 it's awesome stuff.

[@Titan12]

What phone.?

[@danielllitpek2014]

what phone my guy?

[@PouLS]

Wow, what phone are you using?

[@kurtzstudios387]

@@PouLS I’m pretty sure one of the old lgs had modules that u can switch out

[@mr.zman8]

Hope you had fun in Pittsburgh, totally not biased at all

[@superakman14]

I think you forgot about depth perception, but i guess it would cost 5 grand more.

[@Colton_Clipped]

I like how everyone’s acting so casual even though there’s a protest going on outside.

[@nicobernt9049]

i was not expecting military propaganda lol

[@ncd2164]

The most underrated channel on yt

[@moejama64]

Try it with a black and white/monochrome filter like you're living in a noir film.

[@maruftim]

honestly a standalone video of "everyday life in thermal vision" would be really cool

[@jacplac97]

0:50 I think that's normal on pride parades.

[@Lasagna_Enjoyer]

Bro looked at the parade and said this is overwhelming

[@enigmabodylanguage]

This is such a cool idea! Living as a predator for 50 hours.

[@NoNoNah306]

Living as a predator 24/7 by exploiting your young audience to die in the US military for money.

[@Gh0sb0ss]

I lost it when the dude walked up with the stone cold pizza

[@mumblety]

It would be awesome if you used two cameras for depth perception!

[@RepeatedFailure]

I suggested that, but it would've been an extra $5k lmao

[@DarkWolfsDen]

@@RepeatedFailure It makes me wonder what would happen if someone who has monocular vision (like me) had the IR feed fed to the bad eye while keeping the good eye in normal light. Better yet, maybe feed the good eye sound based visuals created from ULF audio reflections. Could be a good experiment.... hmmmm ;)

[@RepeatedFailure]

@@DarkWolfsDen I would prefer to send lidar data over sound for usability, but it would still be interesting nonetheless. A lot of night vision is monocular for keeping the other eye not exposed to light as well.

[@DarkWolfsDen]

@@RepeatedFailure Lidar could be interesting. Since my left eye is more or less useless, been toying with the idea of trying to feed alternative light signals into that eye while keeping the right eye at visible light just to see what kind of "merged" signal the brain gets.

[@RustyShackleford556]

Wait until they show him the hybrid NV thermal clip-ons

[@Iced_Tea200]

This video being sponsored by the US marines is the weirdest thing.

[@drearyplane8259]

military propaganda 🤮

[@ball_python1]

@@drearyplane8259 gay pride 🤮

[@whyett78]

Pittsburgh! heck yah, Yinz know it!

[@RepeatedFailure]

Yinz go dawntawn fer thermal

[@Narinjas]

You can have blind mode android/IOS voice activated, with full control. #BlindSurfer

[@Narinjas]

Also voice reading camera for computer screens where you can't see yourself, just voice activate the mode and point the camera.

[@doxastoel]

Omg I love yinz coffee shop I go there when I take my freinds to Dr's appointments up the street

[@Birb42o]

wow vury awsum

[@tomistic_racing]

I agree

[@someidiot4570]

can't believe I got tricked into watching a military recruitment ad

[@breadguyy]

Takes calling someone "hot" to a new level

[@mangieygaming]

0:20 ur lucky to not see what theyre doing and unlucky to support them without knowing lol

[@RepeatedFailure]

I think you got that backwards m8

[@mangieygaming]

@@RepeatedFailure wdym backward

[@dovix]

@@RepeatedFailure hah failure, suits you

[@RepeatedFailure]

@@dovix Game respects game I see

[@Tivis7]

"Thermal sunrise" Thermal Camera - SWEATS PROFUSELY

[@patrickfranciscampbell8593]

Pittsburgh?

[@RepeatedFailure]

Yinz know it

[@pyrotank1232]

fallout 3

[@pickpickpickpickpickpick]

0:01 bro do you not have fingernails

[@user9267]

That thumbnail is amazing, I don't know how you would even begin to come up with that.

[@_GhostMiner]

What's up with all those gays?

[@RepeatedFailure]

Pride

[@emerialon5612]

4:01 Beautifully ironic scene. 😂

[@Circle912]

Gay parrade at the start of the video? Ngl i think you need to go turkey mate wrong country

[@RepeatedFailure]

This is in Pittsburgh? I am confused. I think it is a great place for a video

[@Circle912]

@@RepeatedFailure turkey is better cause one time ago they sprayed high pressure water to the gay parade and one of them almost went flying

[@Circle912]

@@RepeatedFailure I think I might be too harsh but I’m an Anti LGTBTQ my opinion

[@daometh]

its nice you can see the thermal paper in action with the receipt

[@quartzherobrine4300]

us marine corps cringe

[@nickyu4442]

You misspelled based

[@seansyguy]

glad to see you're not running out of ideas, this had my interest throughout the entire video

[@LunaCoco]

Cringe sponsor today bro 💀

[@hunterrandall2298]

he should have trained to rely purely on crayons as a prime source of nourishment

[@RepeatedFailure]

We blew the crayon budget on the goggles :(

[@Niki2023]

wtf man, promoting the military?? that’s disgusting tbh

[@nickyu4442]

Not supporting the military is an L

[@NoNoNah306]

@@nickyu4442 Epic W when you remember the eyes of iraqi the child you shot.

[@apexfenix9623]

Not supporting the military is a L x2

[@zacharywilson8639]

You could make a sort of thermal dot matrix display with an array of resistors. Dunno what that would be good for but only thermal eyes could see the image/text

[@RepeatedFailure]

You can read led matrixes that turn off for a bit, like the subway info sign at the T station

[@zenmark42]

this is just unconscionable. I was basically ready to sign up for the task force to help you out with shit... but like... I just can't even watch this and I'm just so disgusted with you. like, if you can't understand why partnering with the people who send our friends off to die for oil makes you a bad person... then I don't know what to tell you. I love your videos usually, but I just can't look at you anymore.

[@taylorswanson1068]

I respect him a lot more for it, if you’re not willing to die for the prosperity of your country aka your community (in which humans have evolved to be a part of), then why even live in the first place?

[@nickyu4442]

the marines probably paid him a ton of money, and I think it’s just a stupid idea to turn down $50k-100k to make one low effort video, especially when youtube is a full time job. If it was that easy for me to make that much money, I’d happily be sponsored by the early 1940s German government

[@taylorswanson1068]

I respect him more for it

[@dscyrux]

shut up

[@NoNoNah306]

Same I've unsubscribed, this is absolutely vile.

[@armoredman10]

This is the weirdest recruitment ad I’ve ever seen