Modern Warfare 2 Goggles Are For Perverts
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Modern, Warfare, Goggles, Game, Xbox | Themes: Software, Digital Entertainment
The Daily Star is reporting that the night vision goggles included in a Modern Warfare 2 bundle is for "pervs."
British magazine The Daily Star--thriving on topics such as Celeb News, Celeb Babes, and Video Vixens--is poking fun at gamers and the upcoming title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Specifically, the rag is calling out the $150 Prestige Edition that contains a bundled pair of night vision goggles. While the idea is rather cool, unfortunately, British journalists may have a point when saying the goggles are a bad idea.
"GEEKY computer game fans are set to become an army of ogling pervs thanks to a giveaway of night-vision goggles with an edition of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," reports Daily Star's Ciaran Hannah. "Hordes of joy-pad junkies are rubbing their hands in anticipation and some have already admitted they will use the goggles for “stealth dogging” and to spy on gay cruising spots."
The site points to one forum junkie on vg247.com admitting that the goggles will be good for stealth dodging and cruising as mentioned in Hannah's comment. Another example was a forum post indicating that the goggles will let users "become the Peeping Tom you've always wanted to be." While the posts were probably sarcasm at best, The Daily Star evidently took the comments seriously.
But the sad truth is that there are probably gamers who may actually want the goggles for peeping on the hottie next-door, or to use them in other mischievous ways. Is Activision making a bad move by supplying gamers with the goggles? We'll see next month when the game hits retail shelves just in time for the Turkey Day holidays.
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You can buy cheap night vision goggles easily already.
If someone wanted night vision goggle for that sort of thing they could buy them without the game from any number of places.
Obviously. Because every gamer is a 43 year old in their mom's basement who would love to get some. This is obviously what they will be used for.
Assumptions much? By in large I think they will be used for just good humor, and other things such as paintball/airsoft etc, and less than illegal activities. Calm down k?
In other news....this happened to be on the same page as this article...yay for google adverts?
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... No comment. Really. Just sad.
if you do some basic research about night vision you will se that there are more than one generations of devices out there; for the price, you probably get a first gen. night vision, and that is not so good; not even for peeping Tom..Just look it up
If you expect these to perform anywhere close to the $400+ goggles you see in movies I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
LOL
u can be a better perv using cheap binoculars. Also a nifty trick, the nightvision in your sony handycam can see through woman's cloth clothing...SONY HANDYCAMS ARE FOR PERVS!!!!
If you go to a gay cruising spot - to get your thrills in some park with a total stranger; I'm sure you're not the sort of person who minds a couple of nerds in stealth gear watching from the nearest bushes.
... Honestly, if we gamers we'rent such a relaxed bunch we might actually take offense to this opinion.
There's a lot of other stupid stuff we can do that doesn't involve being a peeping tom that would involve night vision
That's the problem with posting sarcasm on the net, some people are so f***ing stupid they will take everything seriously. I tell you, stupid is going around, its a lot more contagious than the common flu. Lots of people infected with stupid...H1N1 isn't what we should be afraid of, stupid is. It has already brought common sense close to extinction, morals are gone since the 80s, and justice? HA! With all the lawyers around its been dead for a while.
Ciaran Hannah is writing from experience...
It's easy to make these already, all you need is:
a webcam or digital camera
developed film negatives
scissors
*and if you want to get ambitious*
an led flashlight
and Infrared leds
Dissemble the camera, over the sensor you will see a piece of glass or plastic (the infrared filter) remove it carefully. Cut out a piece of the developed film negative where there is no image, to fit over the sensor. Mount it to the sensor tightly using the mount that held the ir filter or find some other creative way. Put the camera back together. Viola you have an infrared camera.
*ambitious* Take apart your led flashlight, desolder the white leds, replace them with the ir leds and you have an IR flashlight. You will not be able to see it giving off light with your eyes but it will light the whole room up for the camera. The IR flashlight provides the extra IR light that you need to see through bras!
Hurray for science!
I can confirm that these work for seeing through clothes just not well lol it does make coke appear clear which is AWESOME and you can see neato things on your money (uv isnt the only thing they've been using) I modded my IR camera for a multitouch surface esq project I was working on. You can really get pervy and modify old camera phones to do this, just remove the ir filter and add the film negative and you're golden. The IR filter will apear redish so you know what to look for.
Here is an instructable for the IR multitouch system:
wow, i give up with our world...its filled with the most retarded people ever.
I think the people who "think" gamers will use the goggles is just projecting their own personal views on what THEY would do with them. Just how better cops/detectives are great because they think like criminals, these people just "know" gamers will use them for peeping.
This is just classic bullying. People just "ass"ume all gamers are single and have no life. What a load of bull. Damm haters. Is this what journalism has come to?
For Pete sakes, they are night vision, not x-ray.
ARE U F%$&* KIDDING ME?!?!?
LOL, what idiots.....
Funny, gamers get night vision goggles, and we are called perverts. But, when was the last time anyone took a trip to walmart? THEY SELL NIGHT VISION GOGGLES TO KIDS...
Not knocking night vision, or the fact that kids can get there hands on them, but honestly, don't these people have better things to do? Seriously, stop creating problems and start solving them. Technology is here to stay, deal with it.
P.S. I think i'll buy a pair... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
OH, ALMOST FORGOT, HERE IS THE LINK
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/pro [...] d=10340612
The "hottie next door" will look all green with these though. I don't want her to be green.
They DO have a point though - these goggles open the door to tresspass-voyeurism.
Yea, you can buy them seperatley, on your own. But younger gamers can now get them using the facade of it being nothing more then a bonus game item.
We live in a sick world - there's no point in assisting the sickos in their deeds....
What about the incident when another gaming company delivered Plastic Brass Knuckles, an illegal and dangerous weapon?
This means that gamer are perverts who sneak up on people wearing nightvision goggles to beat them up?
Come on britons, you gave birth to Dr. House, get some sense of humor!
Right. Because it is being sold to "gamers", they will obvciously put it to perverse or illegal use. We all know how games make normal people evil and wicked. If you just sell the goggles without a game, then the purchaser would obviously be an altruistic, upright citizen who would only use them to track down evildoers and see them handed over to the police.
Gamers are not a group of weak, vile or evil people. There may well be gamers who have no moral compass, but please remember that no group on earth has an exclusive lock on that. It's not the gaming that leads people astray.
THink about it:
Scenario 1 - A kid walks into the store and buys night-vision goggles. He takes them home and his parents say, "What the hell? Why did you buy those goggles? You are a pervert! You're going to stalk and spy on your neighbor at night!!! Call the police!!!"
Scenario 2 - You get a box with a video game in it and it also has night-vision goggles in it. Your parent's say, "Oh, it's just some dumb toy. No harm will come of it..."
In BOTH cases, the kid has full intention of spying on his neighbors at night. But in scenario 2, it's easier for him to get away with it because his parent's don't question it being a bonus "toy" in a video game box.
I guarantee some people will use these goggles with bad intentions and the fact that they are included with a video game will desensitize people from questioning them until it's too late.
Right. Because it is being sold to "gamers", they will obvciously put it to perverse or illegal use. We all know how games make normal people evil and wicked. If you just sell the goggles without a game, then the purchaser would obviously be an altruistic, upright citizen who would only use them to track down evildoers and see them handed over to the police.Gamers are not a group of weak, vile or evil people. There may well be gamers who have no moral compass, but please remember that no group on earth has an exclusive lock on that. It's not the gaming that leads people astray.
I'm not afraid of the majority of gamers - I'm concerned about the sick minority that would abuse these goggles for evil deeds.
These goggles are designed to stalk people in the night without giving away your presence. What possible good can come of that outside of a military situation?
The real issue here is that once again the media throws around the "gamer" title as though it is a bad thing. I have read an article where a guy built a small nuclear reactor in his house and the FBI confiscated it. The article started off with the words "a texas gamer..."
Yea anyone who really wants to be a peeping tom already has a cheap pair ..MW2 goggles are not going to all of a sudden make people say..Hey I want to be a peeping tom now and be a perv specificly because activision supplied my NV goggles.
Why would anyone think of using the MW2 NVG for perving i mean its fkn MASSIVE.... there are better(more compact)tools out there for perving
why would anyone want to peep while wearing night vision googles, hasn't anyone played splinter cell, its all grainy.
I do not giving one flying fuck what some sleazy, trashy British gossip paper says. I am fully capable of owning the goggles without feeling the need to use them in a stupid way. I have carried a firearm(Glock 23) everyday for the past 8 years, and I have never committed an illegal or immoral act with it. The Daily Star needs to look in the mirror and they need to rethink their stance. Hell, I have more integrity than those idiots.
If people do stupid things with the goggles, then they need to be 'hooked and booked', but there is no need to shit-talk gamers that are responsible and simply enjoy getting the cool collectibles. Besides, if I wish to see a nice pair of breast or a fully nude woman, I have an app...girlfriend for that.