• Question: In Assassins Creed 1 and 2 there is a thing you can do called eagle vision and can look at a pass code just say for a door and you can see the fingerprints of people that touched the numbers just say a couple of hours ago do you think something like that would ever happen like eagle vision glasses???

    Asked by stephenmc6 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 25 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Nick Bradshaw

      Nick Bradshaw answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      Hmm…. Well making yourself glasses that allow you to see small detail should bbe simple enough – you jyst need to fit one or more “microscope” style lenses to allow you to see things in more detail (basically you would be wearing two magniying glasses on your face.

      Seeing fingerprints is more complex (unless you were lucky and the fingers were covered in paint in which case they would be easy to see). Assuming that this wasnt the case, you would have to add some sort of spray or powder to the fingerprints to allow you to make them out (of the sort that crime-scene investigators use). If you wanted them on your glassses though, then you would have to wear a canister of it on your back and have a tube running up your neck and to the glasses, with a nozzel to squirt the powder/liquid onto the doorhandle. You could probably fit this nozzel on one side of the glasses. That way you could lean up to the doorhandel, squirt the powder/liquid and then look through your magnifying glasses at the fingerprints.

      The problem then comes in finguring out whose fingerprints they are. For this you would need to attach some sort of scanner to the other side of your glasses (we wouldnt want to accidently spray it!) and link this to a palmtop computer which links to the police fingerprint database (although how you get access is another question).

      So in summary, you problably could make these eagle vision glasses but they would be massive, heavy and make your eyes look huge to anyone staring at you (and believe me, they would be staring at you!)

    • Photo: Joseph Devlin

      Joseph Devlin answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      That sounds cool! I’m sure the security forces (and Q) are working on this kind of thing as we speak. Certainly fingers leave traces of oil and residue on surfaces they touch and I can imagine it may be possible to image that residue if one was clever.

      I’d love to learn the answer to this, actually.

    • Photo: Carolyn McGettigan

      Carolyn McGettigan answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      Well, I guess if there was a property of the material left by fingerprints that could be detected by a probe device or microscope, which could relay that to some sort of image projected from a headset or glasses, then I suppose yes. But once you knew which numbers people had pressed on the keypad, and assuming previous visitors had only ever pressed the correct buttons, how would you work out what order they had pressed them in to get the access code right?

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