Posted on 01/16/2020 8:59:49 AM PST by BenLurkin
The startup, Mojo Vision, showed off a very early prototype in meetings at CES last week and is now ready to start talking about the product’s development.
Mojo Vision hopes to first create a smart contact lens that can assist people with low vision by displaying enhanced overlays of the world, sharpening details or zooming in to help them see. But that reality seems to be a ways away. The prototype shown at CES included a green, monochromatic display that was wired to a large battery, and the company still needs to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration to eventually ship to consumers, particularly for its medical use cases.
Mojo’s tech is built into a hard scleral lens, which has a bulbous portion that sits slightly above the surface of the eye. Mojo Vision claims to have a 14,000 ppi display (the iPhone 11 has a 326 ppi display, for comparison) as well as an image sensor, radio, and motion sensor that will be built in to help overlay and stabilize images. While Mojo showed off a lens that it says includes all of those components, we didn’t demo a fully working unit. The display technology seemingly worked when held close to the eye — we weren’t allowed to insert it — but it required an external battery and processor to run. The company says people would have to disinfect their contacts nightly and that it’d recharge through a proprietary induction system.
Mojo has seemingly accomplished one of its biggest hurdles — embedding a tiny display on a contact lens — but it still needs to prove that the tiny form factor can function on its own and, beyond even that, prove that society is comfortable with the idea of AR contacts.
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Or it will be used to show pr0n.
I want my x-ray contact lenses. I want them now.
The 6 million dollar man would be jealous.
I want heat vision or laser beam capable.
Google Glass, but you can’t tell if someone is wearing it.
How long before they decide to sell advertising space? Can you imagine never being able to get rid of an ad?
I have hard contact lenses.
Every time you blink, they reorient themselves and move around a bit. Not a problem for a lens per se, but could be a big issue for a lens with an integrated display as a vision augment.
Maybe if they intend to surgically implant it...
If your visual apparatus doesn’t work, you will see nothing.
Better to develop a system that uses a video camera, artificial intelligence, and earphones to keep a blind person informed of the world around him. THAT would be a good use of technology.
The same software that is used in “self-driving” cars to navigate, can be adapted to what I just suggested.
Merge it with GPS and you can create a self-navigating system for the blind. It can warn him, in words, of obstacles, curbs, holes in the ground. It can tell him he’s approaching a corner and to stop. However, I don’t trust any software to keep a blind person safe crossing a street, given the irresponsible way many people drive. Used in buildings, it can help a blind person get around more easily.
Sad to say, the Mojo Vision invention will most likely be used for game playing and “virtual reality.”
To the developers:
Make sure your “proprietary induction system” (charging without direct physical contact) is totally disabled when the lens is in the eye. Otherwise the damn thing will be charging when near a proprietary induction system charger and heat up the bearer’s eye.
It would depend on how fast the software can make the necessary adjustments. The speed of current monitoring software is astonishing and will only get faster in the future. The normal eye cannot detect the fact that LED lights are off half the time so it could be possible that software could make an adjustment before the brain is even aware that there was a problem.
Cool! Can I get a set that replaces all females in the vicinity with Sophia Loren?
Or maybe ponies. Hmm. Maybe not. :P
(just havin fun)
[[How long before they decide to sell advertising space? Can you imagine never being able to get rid of an ad?]]
exactly- Can’t even watch TV without a ton of ads blocking portions of the screen- they put the words at bottom when you can’t understand what the person is saying well, and many times the stupid pop yup ads cover up the words-
I remember watching TV back in the 70’s when there were only about 2-3 commercial breaks during a show, the commercials were quick, entertaining, funny, and not really bothersome- but my goodness- today there are so many commercial breaks during a one or two hour show, and they go on and on and on- and mostly are emotion manipulators now- commercials for peta, commercials for climate change, commercials for a myriad of organizations to ‘help just one person with your monthly contribution of $20- that’s just 8 cents a day (or whatever)”
AND we’re paying through the nose to watch all these commercial interruptions
Thank goodness for DVR- No more sitting through commercials unless we are watching something live- but even then we change the channel to another show during commercials now- so that cuts down on the annoyances-
Just wait until it reports back to Big Brother when you’re in the polling booth and it tricks you into checking the D box.
A hair band is not supposed to be worn on the eyes.
Back then, commerical breaks were just long enough for a quick bathroom break. Today, you can make dinner.
lol aint that the truth-
bkmk
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