Real invisibility cloak?

What about perspective and parallax changes? The view in the photo shows an image which matches up pretty well with the surroundings, but it only does so * from that angle and distance*. Think of it like a TV screen. If you walk up to it, or move around in a room, you don’t see into the picture at different angles. You only see what’s projected onto the screen, from the camera’s point of view. Unless the back of the jacket is covered with small cameras pointing in every possible direction, as you moved past the person the image would remain in the same position, and would move out of registration with the background. Plus, as you moved closer or farther from the person the same thing would happen. The imagers would have to be able to compensate for different viewers at different distances from the jacket at different heights.

IMO: Hoax.

I agree with photopat what without knowing where the viewer was, the perspective change wouldn’t really work. You would only see “through” them while looking directly in front of where the camera was looking. Otherwise it would just look weird (and with something as skinny as a person, you’d end up seeing the object lines mismatching).

It would work for stuff like a car or aircraft cabin though. Because if you’re seated, you pretty much know where the perspective is coming from. That would be really neat. If you had an LCD replace the rear of your vehicle you’d be able to see out the back of your car as if there was no hatch/door.