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Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think (www.roadtovr.com)

submitted 2 years ago by TheRtRevKaiser to c/technology

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Mojo Lens seems to have created a "smart contact lens" with a pretty dense display along with a fair number of other features including a wireless radio, accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer (for eye tracking). It all seems to fit into an incredibly small package which is apparently thicker than normal contact lenses, but still wearable as demonstrated by their CEO. It seems like a pretty exciting piece of tech. I have suspicions that the battery life is probably the most limiting factor but I'm going to be following this with interest.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We don't even have proper smart glasses I don't think contact lenses with a screen are close to being a useful tool.

[–] TheRtRevKaiser 2 points 2 years ago

I don't completely disagree, but one of the problems with smart glasses continues to be creating a clear display that is unobtrusive, clear, and doesn't obstruct your view. What's interesting about this smart contact is that the display is so small and so close to your eye that you basically can't see the screen itself, but the display is supposedly very crisp. Now whether that's true in practice I don't know. And there are a ton of other technical hurdles to overcome. I suspect battery life is probably a big issue, but also the FoV is apparently somewhat of a problem, which they are trying to overcome using eyetracking and software. It's at least really interesting.