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  • #1

    Night Vision Goggles

    In one of the seminars I attended at Hauntcon, the instructor spoke of using Night Vision Goggles in a pitch black maze. I thought it was a very cool idea, but was knocked flat when I went to research the price of such goggles -- $220+ and UP?

    Come on! There's got to be a better solution......

    Anyone ever use Night Vision Goggles in your haunt? Is there a better price for them than what I'm finding?
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    Back in the day, cheap night vision was $3500.

    The only thing cheaper than LAS (light amplification system) is infared. An infared spot light is inseen by the patrons and realtively cheap glasses pick up on the light with simple red lenses. ( WWII technology)

    Think back pages of popular mechanics, popular science magazines, hunting magazines or solder of fortune magazine for mercenaries and hit men. Learn secret tattoos and ask the right questions with out being so nosy to be taken hostage.

    It can be done with infared for $30. Kind of like the cameras of today. Hell just look through the scope of a $300 video camera today and it is the same effect. $80 black and white infared security cameras at Radio Shack. The only difference is the display screen lights up, if it was enclosed in some goggles you would have it, some silence of the lambs action.
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    • #3
      I have stalked around pitch black houses with night vison goggles you can get a hunting stores, but yes, they were over $200. The infrared sounds like something I will have to look into.
      Brian Warner
      Owner of Evilusions www.EVILUSIONS.com
      Technical Director of Forsaken Haunted House www.Forsakenhaunt.com
      Mechanical Designer (animatronics) at Gore Galore www.Gore-Galore.com

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      • #4
        They really are that much. I was considering this same idea a couple years ago and researched them and found them to be too expensive and would therefore be too hard to manage and keep track of every pair after every tour.


        Allan

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        • #5
          Originally posted by MDKing
          They really are that much. I was considering this same idea a couple years ago and researched them and found them to be too expensive and would therefore be too hard to manage and keep track of every pair after every tour.


          Allan
          I would never give them to customers. I want them to not see. I would use them so that I could see them to scare and they would have no idea where I was. I didn't even have to get in costume.
          Brian Warner
          Owner of Evilusions www.EVILUSIONS.com
          Technical Director of Forsaken Haunted House www.Forsakenhaunt.com
          Mechanical Designer (animatronics) at Gore Galore www.Gore-Galore.com

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          • #6
            Well, for what we wanted to do we did want the customers to have them. Would've been a cool concept, just not feasible.

            Allan

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            • #7
              ..Or you could strap a highly trained cat to the top of your head, his tail could tickle the back of your neck indicating left or right turns, slapping the back of your neck with his tail to indicate a Stop.
              Long nights in October may necessitate a Cat-Diaper to keep things tidy and neat.
              There. All figured out for alot less than $250.oo
              Maybe?
              hauntedravensgrin.com

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              • #8
                Don't make any sudden moves or shrieks as you will have 20 tiny needle claws sunk deep into your skull.
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                • #9
                  ..and this emergency acu-puncture will give insights before unknownst to you!
                  (Face it, our brains are SO Dead and generally neglected 98% of the time, aren't they?)
                  hauntedravensgrin.com

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                  • #10
                    if you get some kind of inner enlightenment from this experience, it's $50 not $12. We can tell by your eyes at the end of the tour and you will have to cough up another $38.

                    If you come out with better make up or a better complection and wild hair like after Charlton Heston talked to the burning bush in that 10 commandments movie, that will be $38 my lord.
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                    • #11
                      I was chatting with Midnight Evil yesterday (What a great guy!) and he was telling me he'd seen Night Vision Binoculars at Harbor Frieght for much less money. They are made to only see out of one lense which would technically make it a Minocular, but at least the other eye structure is there so the actor wouldn't have to keep their nonlense eye shut all the time.

                      I couldn't find them on their website, so I'm gonna have to go in the store and see what they have available.

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                      • #12
                        Look the unit over real good, you wouldn't want to get a surplus one from a killer-cyborg that traveled here from a distant future just waiting for a human to put it up to their eye so they can claim your mortal soul!
                        (A task usually relegated to the Playboy centerfolds, speaking as a man, that is.)
                        Yes, pictures of perfect cyborg women, that have never lived upon this planet! The best science can grow!
                        hauntedravensgrin.com

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                        • #13
                          Seconded, Empress. I showed him ideas involving a pitch black and night vision. Can make for a different kind of entertainment in there....
                          The word for the day is NPD. Check it out.

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                          • #14
                            Hey Gwen,
                            I found this....hope it helps. Its the cheapest thing I found.

                            http://www.nightvisionoptics.com/nestmnivimo.html
                            I came here to do two things, kick some a$$ and chew some bubble gum...and I'm all out of bubble gum.

                            www.ScaredYou.com www.TheHauntingFields.com

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                            • #15
                              Here's something else to consider, anyone can see in the dark if your eyes become accustomed to it. Did anyone see the Pirate Special on Mythbusters? They were testing the Myth of the pirate’s eye patch. Theory was it wasn’t to cover an eye injury but to keep one eye “night sensitive”. When the pirate went from the bright light to the darkness of the ship’s hold he switched the patch so that he was looking out of the covered eye and could see in the dark.

                              Within fifteen minutes or so you gain your night vision. So keep your actors in a night environment. Use a red light if they have to see something. Blast your customer’s eyes with a very bright light in the room prior to the black maze. Now their eyes are over sensitized, think of when you walk inside your house from the bright sunlight, you can’t see anything for awhile!

                              We did this with a small black maze that dumped into a large empty room. The customers fumbled around looking for the next wall, the actor could walk right up, whisper in their ear! They would lead people around “the exit’s over here…no it’s over here..” It was actually quite fun and MUCH cheaper than using expensive night goggles that have the possibility of not even lasting the first week!!
                              R&J Productions
                              Las Vegas, NV
                              www.LasVegasHaunts.com

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