There are a couple of workarounds and science fiction authors have done a good job of this too. The person would not be able to see outside of their own eyeballs in the wavelength that you're using to make them invisible. But people have also proposed that you can actually build the cloak structure as part of your invisibility device.
Can you make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad discover the science behind invisibility with professor of physics and optical science, Greg Gbur. What would real-life invisibility look like?
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