How’s this for overstatement? According to Tokyo Professor Working on Invisibility, the professor’s working on technology to turn you invisible — to an observer wearing a special optical device and looking through a pinhole:
Engineering Professor Susumu Tachi is in the early stages of technology that he says will eventually enable camouflaged objects to be virtually transparent by wearing an optical device.
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For the best effect — one that keeps the correct depth of focus — the observer needs to look through a pinhole.