2 things to improve this, 1. internalize some of the equipment 2. make the webcam location right in front of the face, makes it easier to not be disoriented based on the camera position (This is speculation and also you do not have to do it and besides that that was a great build and that works well. The internalization of components is hard but it’ll help it be a little less clunky
Please keep in mind that a lot of phones don't have OTG. Like the s4 mini and s5 mini. When that's the case you can't connect a usb device to your phone. You can try to remove the ir filter from the phone camera itself then. Which will make it less useful for everyday use, but your image will be a lot better. Most VR glasses have removable covers to use the phone for augmented reality.
Marking the position of the lens will just get it back to the position where visible light is in focus. The IR will be out of focus with the mark at 12 o'clock. You should check the IR focus prior to fully reassembling the camera if you want the sharpest image!
Love this, check out "bird box cameras" super cheap IR focusable cameras. That simply does video out no need to modify a webcam. They have good refresh rates too
CCDs in webcams cannot see the IR light required for thermal vision. As for thermal modules, I don´t know if those can be used in a different app other than their own which don´t have the 3D video option to use them in the binoculars
Great job putting this together and showing each step and putting the links up. You could find a different camera with a wider fov and still use your same set-up. Do you know around how long your phone will stay charged? I know it will very from phone to phone. Keep up the good work!
Really cool video. I have tested my webcam and it picks up IR light fine as It is. Does that mean that it doesn't have an IR filter, or does it have an IR filter and will be even better when removed? Thanks :)
Last weekend I build this. Yes it works but I have a problem with the USB Camera App. When I connect a webcam to it its all fine. but when I switch to cardboard view, I see " two videos on one screen" like in your video. But after a few seconds its changes into two triangles. The triangles change color a bit when I move arround the webcam. anyone know how to fix it? Tried it on a samsung galaxy S8 and a S20.
For the people that want to do this with an iPhone you can download the live streaming app prism live which lets you hook up a webcam to your phone you will hower need to use an different pair of gogels or you will need to modify the Samsung gear vr.
when u play airsoft together with ur friends,and one of your friend is using a real expensive night vision goggles,and then he easily could just trace u from those infrared sights
to be fair real night vision is like $3k-42k and with this you at least get to see in the dark you'll just have to work around using the ir flashlight in exposed areas
4:20 See the lens there with the red glass(IR Filter)? Well if you want to put one of these camera setups on a scope with minimum eye relief you need to change it. You need a (12mm board lens) and it has to be 12mm. The 12mm is the designation of the focal length... Just go grab a scope and hold your cell phone up to it, you will see the inside of the scope and the actual crosshairs are tiny and there is more black around it than there is actual target viewing. That 12mm will move the sight of the camera forward so that the reticle and target fill the screen. What he is doing can be done with any old cell phone as long as it does not have image stabilization but changing the lenz to a 12mm might be difficult! Just note that putting a new lens in wil change the focus and you will need to make adjustments to it before final assembly!
¡ Thank you vm for your tutorial. It's useful and appreciate a lot. One question please ¿How many yards could be clear images in the night up to ? Health for you an yours !
Awesome and like that you talked it through unlike most folks that are lazy and expect you to read and just point at everything, and you explain everything. Awesome 👌
There's a camera by Arducam that works with android. It's basically a sensor and sense on circuit board and has ir view out of the box and a 100⁰ fov. I could tape it to the front of the vr headset instead of on top, so I wonder if it would work.
This is sick. I'm totally going to make one out of a cheap Chinese br headset for android but for mine I'll set the camera between the eyes on the faceplate
very cool, I plan on doing something similar inside a protogen costume head but with 2 70 degree FOV webcams 60 degrees apart for a 130 degree view angle. I love the passthrough on the oculus quest so much and hope this will turnout as a similar "cyber vision" sorta thing
I've heard that the cameras mounted on an Oculus pick up enough IR that this could work just by using the default Oculus pass-through, but with an IR flashlight. I'm not certain, but it could be worth a try.
Epic. Will do. The webcam and flashlight linked are both unavailable. I assume I can use another model? Very clear and easy to follow video, nice work.
I didn't know they made IR flashlights. I made one of these but instead of a webcam I hot glued a security camera to a hard hat, but it's not bright enough to see more than a few feet in front of me
Yep you can use a China one for 10-20 bucks. Works too. Also it would be cool to use 2 cams one for each eye, so you could actually See in 3d at night. ;-)
Thank you very much for confirming the possibility of a project i had in the back of my head from some time already. As a very humble contribution, allow me to share a little processing trick with the screws. Once you try to put them back to their place, just unscrew them instead of directly trying to screw. You'll feel the little click telling you the start of the guideline more easily. At least it works for me ;-) Thanks again and, yes, you got a new subscriber !
Great vid.... just a thought... can you instead remove the IR filter in the camera of uou smart fone in that way its like you having an integrated system? Am i making sense to you? Thanks and good good luck bro....😁👍
Can someone please just make some infrared goggles with dicyanin dye again? There's a story about our military seeing demons when they first used the red spectrum in dycyanin goggles.
Hey. hope you still use this youtube channel. I'm trying to use this hack for a steampunk costume, and I was wondering if you could answer a few questions
im doing a very similar project but by removing the ir filter from the phone camera instead tried it with my samsung s5 and found that that camera has no removable filter so im going to buy a samsung core prime instead which i know will work
Hi 1. Can we operate the webcam using the application ? 2. If not then if we have to run a app that require mobile camera for viewing, like an AR application, then will the external camera work ?
Great video, ty. Can you record on the phone the video you are shooting via the webcam? Or would that record feature be through the Android App? Thanks!
Fucking awesome video mate!! You did a great job with the video production and explanation. i had no problem following along, and all your links were extremely helpful. It was pretty difficult to unscrew the lens from the housing, gotta be careful not to lift the glue. the IR filter shattered and and had to dig all the glass with a dental tool. also when reclipping the board to the usb make sure to put it in very straight, the pins are very easy to bend. i had to use the dental tool to get one of the pins back into position. haha you made it look a lil easier then expected. but the goggles work great. And im making a "regular vision version" for a cyberpunk costume. im so stoked i found this video. you're a genius!!
Question do you know of what you can use to replace the wide-angle lens and the camera. Because the link won't work for the wide-angle lens and the camera is out of stock.
The good thing is that not all smarphone cameras have an IR filter ; for example my samsung s9+ doesn't ; so i dont need an webcam . I just need to drill an hole in the vr box for the phone camera. But we have a big problem with the modern smarphone cameras: They have big aperture and have very small lenses , so becuase of that they let less light than dedicated cameras.
Sorry but you need two images for this headset to work. We have a distorted image using your solution. I imagined the same thing 5 years ago but with two cameras which allowed me to have a 3D view. We need an application that takes two cameras into account. I no longer remember his name. I used two C920 for that and needed a big etxtenal baterie for consumption. I used à loading dock with multi usb for charging and connecting all devices. It was a dock for galaxy note 2 with output hdmi.
you dont need to explain wavelengths... The opposite really, focal length maybe. The difference between a regular camera and a night vision camera is a regular camera has a little piece of glass behind the lens that block IR. Knowing that, explain if you can why IR cameras are more expensive!
You can buy wifi transmitter that work with snake cameras (can't seem to find just the transmitters, but having a snake camera could bring other benefits) Any wifi ip camera could do the same job, but getting to the ir filter might be harder
InfinitePower OTG connector is nothing else then just 4 wires and two connectors.He either didnt install the app or his phone doesn't recognise the camera that he is using.
I can finally steal them cookies in the middle of the night without getting caught. In my neighbor's house. She's really hot but it's just the cookies I'm after.
IP cameras have a lot of that stuff built into the one unit, and are very small, you'd just have to connect it to the phone and your done, nice vid though.
2 things to improve this,
1. internalize some of the equipment
2. make the webcam location right in front of the face, makes it easier to not be disoriented based on the camera position
(This is speculation and also you do not have to do it and besides that that was a great build and that works well. The internalization of components is hard but it’ll help it be a little less clunky
You're telling me this man dropped one video then disappeared? I need more content this was super well done
Unreal this guy drops a video that's practically perfect and then goes ghost it's so well done
How is it this is the only video you’ve ever uploaded? You’re a natural talent!
Just switch off WiFi on that android device before starting that app, so the ad banner can't load in! 😉
airplane mode
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n if your on ios
@@Doe312 no airplane mode on iPhone?
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n idk is there airplane mode only on ios
@@Doe312 you lost me, never had an iPhone
Badass. I made nightvision off a cheap Walmart camera and made my own ir flashlight but this is pretty badass. Good job man
How did you make your own ir flashlight?
@@treudden He probably took a flashlight case and did some electronic stuff on it, using an IR led.
@@theobserver2674 yeah i actually ended up doing that too lol!
Can you see microwave beams with this ?
@@chrisclark4112 nope, microwave is different from infrared. It has a longer wavelength.
Please keep in mind that a lot of phones don't have OTG. Like the s4 mini and s5 mini. When that's the case you can't connect a usb device to your phone. You can try to remove the ir filter from the phone camera itself then. Which will make it less useful for everyday use, but your image will be a lot better. Most VR glasses have removable covers to use the phone for augmented reality.
Marking the position of the lens will just get it back to the position where visible light is in focus. The IR will be out of focus with the mark at 12 o'clock. You should check the IR focus prior to fully reassembling the camera if you want the sharpest image!
Brilliant and very nicely detailed on top of that!
Hello fellow scp fan
Very cool. I'm no good with tiny little detail work but I really would like to try this.
Wow! The best DIY Andoid/VR night vision project and video I have seen so far! Great work and exciting narrative.👍
Finally. A video on this and so professionally done.
This is really nice but I have only one question- what is the effective range of this system? For what I need it, range os vital.
Love this, check out "bird box cameras" super cheap IR focusable cameras. That simply does video out no need to modify a webcam. They have good refresh rates too
Looks better than many over $500 nvg. Definitely trhing this out
so no one sees the led light on camera ,put a small piece of black tape on it !
Complete setup+the phone comes around $67 as of November 2019 if you want all of it from amazon. Not including tape or wide lens.
doubt youll reply because this comment is two years old but, what phone is used?
@@GeneralUgo use a old phone if you do
Could you also make a video on making an thermal camera out of the same setup? It would really help in the current battle against covid
Lmao. Buy a thermal camera, that's it
CCDs in webcams cannot see the IR light required for thermal vision. As for thermal modules, I don´t know if those can be used in a different app other than their own which don´t have the 3D video option to use them in the binoculars
Very nice dude, always to "make my own" and this vid has the most compact & cool lookin DIY goggles on UA-cam
Great job putting this together and showing each step and putting the links up. You could find a different camera with a wider fov and still use your same set-up. Do you know around how long your phone will stay charged? I know it will very from phone to phone. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Will only work with Samsung?
Really cool video. I have tested my webcam and it picks up IR light fine as It is. Does that mean that it doesn't have an IR filter, or does it have an IR filter and will be even better when removed? Thanks :)
wow I'm in the first thousand subscribers. I love it man and great video production skills and all around video. this is awesome
Last weekend I build this. Yes it works but I have a problem with the USB Camera App. When I connect a webcam to it its all fine. but when I switch to cardboard view, I see " two videos on one screen" like in your video. But after a few seconds its changes into two triangles. The triangles change color a bit when I move arround the webcam. anyone know how to fix it? Tried it on a samsung galaxy S8 and a S20.
For the people that want to do this with an iPhone you can download the live streaming app prism live which lets you hook up a webcam to your phone you will hower need to use an different pair of gogels or you will need to modify the Samsung gear vr.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Subbed.
when u play airsoft together with ur friends,and one of your friend is using a real expensive night vision goggles,and then he easily could just trace u from those infrared sights
to be fair real night vision is like $3k-42k and with this you at least get to see in the dark you'll just have to work around using the ir flashlight in exposed areas
4:20 See the lens there with the red glass(IR Filter)? Well if you want to put one of these camera setups on a scope with minimum eye relief you need to change it. You need a (12mm board lens) and it has to be 12mm. The 12mm is the designation of the focal length...
Just go grab a scope and hold your cell phone up to it, you will see the inside of the scope and the actual crosshairs are tiny and there is more black around it than there is actual target viewing. That 12mm will move the sight of the camera forward so that the reticle and target fill the screen.
What he is doing can be done with any old cell phone as long as it does not have image stabilization but changing the lenz to a 12mm might be difficult!
Just note that putting a new lens in wil change the focus and you will need to make adjustments to it before final assembly!
¡ Thank you vm for your tutorial. It's useful and appreciate a lot. One question please ¿How many yards could be clear images in the night up to ? Health for you an yours !
try and use a foxeer cat3 night instead of the cheap webcam
Awesome and like that you talked it through unlike most folks that are lazy and expect you to read and just point at everything, and you explain everything. Awesome 👌
what is the vision range with this DIY NV device?
But is there a delay between you moving the head and actually seeing the image moving?
There's a camera by Arducam that works with android. It's basically a sensor and sense on circuit board and has ir view out of the box and a 100⁰ fov.
I could tape it to the front of the vr headset instead of on top, so I wonder if it would work.
Do you think this would work for a FLIR set up? Obviously you wouldn't remove any of the lenses, but but would be cool to set up your FLIR this way.
This is sick. I'm totally going to make one out of a cheap Chinese br headset for android but for mine I'll set the camera between the eyes on the faceplate
You forgot to say "bravo six going dark"😅
That goggles is so cool
Basically you could remove the IR filter off the Samsung S4 camera's lense & use it as so (without needing the external camera). 🤔😕
very cool, I plan on doing something similar inside a protogen costume head but with 2 70 degree FOV webcams 60 degrees apart for a 130 degree view angle. I love the passthrough on the oculus quest so much and hope this will turnout as a similar "cyber vision" sorta thing
I've heard that the cameras mounted on an Oculus pick up enough IR that this could work just by using the default Oculus pass-through, but with an IR flashlight. I'm not certain, but it could be worth a try.
Perfect Video, but I suspect you can use any Vr Googles for your phone right?
Epic. Will do. The webcam and flashlight linked are both unavailable. I assume I can use another model? Very clear and easy to follow video, nice work.
I didn't know they made IR flashlights. I made one of these but instead of a webcam I hot glued a security camera to a hard hat, but it's not bright enough to see more than a few feet in front of me
Keep making videos! You have so much potential!
Thanks ma😊
can you make this without a samsung gear vr? i just have a normal headset.
Yep you can use a China one for 10-20 bucks. Works too. Also it would be cool to use 2 cams one for each eye, so you could actually See in 3d at night. ;-)
@@worldsendace Thank you!
How to install 2 cam in 1 phone? More video plz
Thank you very much for confirming the possibility of a project i had in the back of my head from some time already. As a very humble contribution, allow me to share a little processing trick with the screws. Once you try to put them back to their place, just unscrew them instead of directly trying to screw. You'll feel the little click telling you the start of the guideline more easily. At least it works for me ;-)
Thanks again and, yes, you got a new subscriber !
Great vid.... just a thought... can you instead remove the IR filter in the camera of uou smart fone in that way its like you having an integrated system? Am i making sense to you? Thanks and good good luck bro....😁👍
Can someone please just make some infrared goggles with dicyanin dye again? There's a story about our military seeing demons when they first used the red spectrum in dycyanin goggles.
There is a connector on the GearVR that is supposed to connect you with the phone, i wonder if that's possible instead of unscrewing the whole headset
Hey. hope you still use this youtube channel. I'm trying to use this hack for a steampunk costume, and I was wondering if you could answer a few questions
Great video. hows it holding up?
I ordered everything then got stuck at removing the Logitech lens 😭
Dude where the folk did u learn this stuff from.. Its3a brilliant video my friend and thanks for this brilliant idea 💡
underrated channel
What a brilliant idea, it works perfectly fine, surpassed my expectations. Thanks ! keep it up.
Can you do a video with this setup looking at the stars please .
well produced video, with good practical tips, thank you.
Well done, Good attention to detail.
GENIUS !"
THANK YOU FRIEND "
im doing a very similar project but by removing the ir filter from the phone camera instead
tried it with my samsung s5 and found that that camera has no removable filter so im going to buy a samsung core prime instead which i know will work
Hi
1. Can we operate the webcam using the application ?
2. If not then if we have to run a app that require mobile camera for viewing, like an AR application, then will the external camera work ?
Any alternatives to the VR goggles? Something more compact?
you didn't go outside? like into the night? come on. where's the aukey demo?
Great video, ty. Can you record on the phone the video you are shooting via the webcam? Or would that record feature be through the Android App? Thanks!
Fucking awesome video mate!! You did a great job with the video production and explanation. i had no problem following along, and all your links were extremely helpful. It was pretty difficult to unscrew the lens from the housing, gotta be careful not to lift the glue. the IR filter shattered and and had to dig all the glass with a dental tool. also when reclipping the board to the usb make sure to put it in very straight, the pins are very easy to bend. i had to use the dental tool to get one of the pins back into position. haha you made it look a lil easier then expected. but the goggles work great. And im making a "regular vision version" for a cyberpunk costume. im so stoked i found this video. you're a genius!!
can you make these with a red display instead of green?
Does the framerate hurt your eyes? Can you use it one eyed? This looks really cool. Would another flashlight help?
if you get a 60fps camera it would be good
reeaaly nice video broo u have all my suport!! keep going!!!
Question do you know of what you can use to replace the wide-angle lens and the camera. Because the link won't work for the wide-angle lens and the camera is out of stock.
The good thing is that not all smarphone cameras have an IR filter ; for example my samsung s9+ doesn't ; so i dont need an webcam .
I just need to drill an hole in the vr box for the phone camera.
But we have a big problem with the modern smarphone cameras:
They have big aperture and have very small lenses , so becuase of that they let less light than dedicated cameras.
you could try to fix it with the wide angle lens no?
i dont know how i just found out this channel. i look so much stuff like this. Awesome video. Subscribed :D
Will these work to look up into the sky at night to see craft that might be there but unseen by the naked eye?
mindy.. where do lefr Mork from ORK?
@@nikeandros what are you, about 60-65? You know that comment really ages you. Only old men ask me about Mork. And the last I heard, he was dead.
@@mindyhayden2994 lol 😅 class!
What app are you using to duplicate the image so you can see the image in each eye?
yeah, i'm wondering the same thing. or is he just viewing a single picture on the phone? he doesn't mention this at all.
He said turn on google cardboard view in app
Sorry but you need two images for this headset to work. We have a distorted image using your solution. I imagined the same thing 5 years ago but with two cameras which allowed me to have a 3D view. We need an application that takes two cameras into account. I no longer remember his name. I used two C920 for that and needed a big etxtenal baterie for consumption. I used à loading dock with multi usb for charging and connecting all devices. It was a dock for galaxy note 2 with output hdmi.
how does it look like in like a forest or just outside? how far does the light go?
Amazing!! Very ingenious 👌
Yeah, you forgot to blast the lens for dust and glass bits. Got a little fuzzy stuck in there now.
could this be used for the farSight Institute project?
does it have to be a logitech c170 specifically or will my logitech c720 work?
So what is the effective range of this setup, like 50 meters?
you dont need to explain wavelengths... The opposite really, focal length maybe. The difference between a regular camera and a night vision camera is a regular camera has a little piece of glass behind the lens that block IR. Knowing that, explain if you can why IR cameras are more expensive!
Im trying so hard to connect the damn webcam via the otg cable and it doesn't workk
The cam works with the computer perfectly
Please help😥
Not all Android phones can do OTG.
Have a look online with your phone model number to see if it has OTG support.
You can buy wifi transmitter that work with snake cameras (can't seem to find just the transmitters, but having a snake camera could bring other benefits)
Any wifi ip camera could do the same job, but getting to the ir filter might be harder
drivers....
InfinitePower OTG connector is nothing else then just 4 wires and two connectors.He either didnt install the app or his phone doesn't recognise the camera that he is using.
Fantastic project ! Thank you for sharing !
I can finally steal them cookies in the middle of the night without getting caught. In my neighbor's house. She's really hot but it's just the cookies I'm after.
I bought a similar webcam and flashlight online and modified a CVS vr headset.. holy shit its amazing! Thank you for this awesome video!
I wouldn't recommend using a gear VR but instead use one that is just made for a phone but is comfortable.
I'm thinking of using a cctv led circuit part
Is there any way to do this with an iPhone? I’ve done a ton of research and there doesn’t seem to be a way to hook a webcam up to an iPhone.
Bro, are thermal imaging sights expensive in your country?
IP cameras have a lot of that stuff built into the one unit, and are very small, you'd just have to connect it to the phone and your done, nice vid though.
i hate the low refresh rate
any tips to get the same experience with more fps and less latency?
What’s the battery life on the headset with the mods and add ons?
This is flippin awesome
I have the exact same webcam and flashlight wtf
Dude a very clean video! Why did you only make one?!😢
For the price of your yearly upgrade to the newest iphone and a little saving just pick up a PVS-14 gen 2
Dude, that was a great tutorial. Very awesome!
would the google cardboard actually work?
That camera is no longer available. Any suggestions for another camera?
Why did you remove that component from the headset?
What's the range of this setup? 100 yards?
Is this a type of night vision that can be seen by other night vision sets?
yes
are these ir flash lights harmful to the eyes like the ir lasers are ?
not the same way.. but its very bright light, dont look in it directly for long.
Yes they are