OnePlus 8 Pro X-Ray Vision Mode Uncovered...

So, OnePlus has been in the news in a big way, at least on my Twitter feed

So many people talking about this X-ray vision mode that's kind of buried in the color filters

It has a specific color filter camera that appears to have the potential to see through certain objects and materials

And so, yeah, that is pretty cool. And there have been a few objects that have emerged within the tech space that appear to showcase the greatest effect

The Apple TV uses a certain type of plastic, a thin plastic, that appears to be see-through when you peer through the IR camera or the color filter on the OnePlus 8 Pro

Some other plastics that work well, remote controls, and I have a Nintendo Switch controller over here which is already semi-translucent

It appears that the effect is best seen on thin black plastics

But it raised a whole bunch of questions that people are curious about and they're certainly asking me questions about

And the biggest one is whether or not this thing can see through clothes

So of course, I gotta test it out I gotta see if it can or not

But we're gonna kick it off with some of the popular objects that showcase this technology in effect

And then a little bit later in this video We're gonna go through some of the background on how this stuff works and why it exists

So you boot into the camera app on the OnePlus 8 Pro

And you head up to the filter section, and that's where they've placed this photo chrome mode

And it's at the very end of a bunch of filter options

Matte, vivid, black and white, and then boom, photo chrome. And you notice pretty much right away that some things change

A really typical standard Apple TV that appears black to your eyes through this camera is see-through

You can see the components on the inside of it. And so this unveils to you the internal components

of the Apple TV. Now these remote controls work well also. Again, you don't see anything as far as the interior

is concerned when you're looking with your naked eye. But then boom you see the inside You see the various components It a very cool effect and I understand why people are excited about it because it built into your camera It doesn require any type of external attachment in order to achieve the effect

This one here is pretty wild. Like, look at that. This is an LG remote control for a computer monitor

That's what it looks like to your eyeballs. This is what it looks like under the OnePlus camera filter

The backside, on the other hand, you can't see through at all. The front side, you can

Now, it appears that the thickness of the material that the object is made out of

is the biggest factor in how see-through it's going to end up being

In the case of this Nintendo Switch controller, it's already somewhat translucent to your eyes

You can kind of see through it. And then this just enhances it substantially, as you can see here

And it makes you kind of wonder, why was this feature important to OnePlus? did they expect for people to figure out what it was really capable of

or was it strictly for creative applications? So the next question that comes up for a lot of people is

holy moly, that's powerful. That's powerful technology. Can this thing see through clothes

That's at least what I've been hit up with, because there's a feeling that if it can

or if it's too powerful, let's say, that OnePlus may actually have to do something about it

because people will have concerns about the privacy component and so on

I'm not saying that's my opinion on the matter, But I am saying that's something I've seen emerging on social media. So this is a picture

I took in front of a mirror as you can see There's a box underneath my plain black t-shirt mostly cotton a little bit of polyester in it

And when I turn on the photo chrome filter, you could see I'm holding an iPhone box

So yes, this thing is capable of seeing through clothing It's just really gonna depend on what that clothing is. It's a thin plain black shirt

There's a high potential that it can be seen through like it is here on my common

black t-shirt that I wear most days. I don't know, let me ask you, what do you think

Should this, is this a problem? Are people gonna use this in the wrong way? I did a little bit of research myself

found an article from the 90s, an article here from 1998, in which Sony had an infrared mode a night vision mode on one of their handycams and they ran into a similar controversy It seems that Sony latest handycam video camera works even better than those x vision glasses

they use to advertise in the back of comic books. The camera, with the aid of an inexpensive filter, can see through people's clothing

Don't put it on your holiday gift list, though. Sony says it has stripped the special feature off new versions of the camera

So they got rid of it all the way back in 1998. And there's a video that accompanies this article in the AP Archive

which showcases the capabilities of that camera. It may have been slightly more powerful than this

but I was actually quite surprised to find that this thing could see so well through a typical black T-shirt

I almost forgot. I put another box under my shirt as well, because I just had to know for certain that this was going to be the case with multiple items

So yeah, you could see the... You could see the Apple wheels

through my t-shirt as well. So infrared photography, what's the deal here? Why was

this developed? Well, originally it was kind of a creative endeavor in order to give you a surreal

effect when you photograph things like plants and trees. And it started to get popular in the 1930s

not just for the surreal effect, but also in Hollywood to create day to night scenes to make

it look like daytime when it was nighttime. Now this is not unique to this particular camera. This

technology has existed for a while, citing of course the 1998 article on the Sony Handycam

It's also something that you find in night vision cameras. Here's an article from livescience.com

Night vision cameras use a more sophisticated version of a ballometer. These cameras typically

contain charge coupled device CCD imaging chips that are sensitive to IR light. The image formed

by the CCD can then be reproduced in visible light. These systems can be made small enough to be used

in handheld devices or wearable night vision goggles. So it's similar technology that's at play in here

And one way to demonstrate its ability to see this infrared is by taking something like this guy here

This is a set of headphones And when I crack this open there some IR lights going nuts on each of the earbuds and I show you how right the regular camera doesn see anything here we go I flip this open regular camera seeing nothing I flip over to

photo chrome and you see the lights going bananas on there and the same thing

happens when you're talking about face ID or face unlock whether it's on an iPad

or an iPhone absolutely crazy looking for a face. You see nothing with your eyes

I bring this over and it's going wild. I think it's some pretty cool technology

How useful is it on the daily? And is it worth the risk factor

And would you want to have this functionality inside of your smartphone

Based on what I've read to this point, it seems like it would be a difficult thing

for OnePlus 2 Alter in a heavy way through a software update

It would be the type of thing that they might have to turn off completely if too much of an uproar took place on social media

where people just really didn't want that feature in there. I tend to tread on the side of personal responsibility

People use it accordingly. Don't try to be weird with it. Don't try to go up to..

Don't try to approach people with black t-shirts. And that's the thing

Practically speaking, is this really that big of an issue? I don't personally think so. I'm sure some people will but for the time being it'll see through certain things

definitely not everything but it does make you feel temporarily like some sort of

Superhero with your x-ray vision looking through the various objects in your house

It also will take up tremendous time trying to figure out which plastics are see-through and which aren't the coolest for me

remains at this particular remote control which I mean it just becomes

super translucent through this particular filter. Anyway, if you have this phone

let me know if there's any cool thing that you've been capable of seeing through using that photo chrome filter

And let me know in the comments as well, if you think this is an issue, is it something OnePlus needs to address

or do humans just need to get it together and behave responsibly