This Headset Gives You X-Ray Vision to See Through Objects

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.

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