alan_m wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote

SO why don;t the military use such a system
rather than rely on image intensifiers.

Essentially because the smartphone technique is
so recent and it remains to be seen if it will in fact
be used by the military much more in future.

Also it's got to work in adverse conditions such as
100% cloud cover at night and when raining. Its of
limited use if it only works in fine weather conditions.

Sure but the best of the latest smartphone do that night
vision fine in a lot more than just fine weather conditions.

Less clear how good it is time on battery tho.

The current military stuff has in fact been around for
decades now and is primarily physical technology
rather than the dramatic computer assisted tech
that smartphones use with so much computer power
available in the top of the range smartphones.

Military equipment probably has more computing
? power than an average domestic application.

Not with the personal night vision systems tho.

In addition many cameras are just part of a larger system
that can cope with image processing in real time with ease.

Sure but not with the personal night vision systems.