There are a few significant features that distinguish night-vision binoculars from regular binoculars. For starters, they come with the ability to shoot a beam of infrared light at a subject, which reflects off it in the dark and allows you to see it via your night vision binoculars. Additionally, night vision binoculars use a combination of both analog lenses and digital technology (such as an LCD) to see objects in the dark. That’s why most night-vision binoculars also need some sort of battery power to use them, which is also different from conventional binoculars.