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A glance to the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback. It's all I theoretically need to do to use Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens coming from a company called Mojo Vision.
The California-based company, which has been quiet about what it's been working on for five years, has finally shared its plan for the world's "first true smart contact lens." But let's be clear: This is not a product you'll see on store shelves next autumn. It's in the research and development phase—a few years away from becoming a real product. In fact, the demos I tried did not even involve me plopping on a contact lens—they used virtual reality headsets and held up bulky prototypes to my eye, as though I was Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:41PM (2 children)
There is also the matter of alignment. Either they're going to have the image in just one eye or they will have a hell of a time making sure both lenses have the exact same rotation. With fine details like text, it matter a lot and even a little error will be intolerable.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:36AM
It would probably be spherical screen that could be calibrated in some fashion. I'm not sure how else you'd assure proper alignment on this sort of a shape.
On the plus side, if they made this work, it would take eye coordination out of the equation. They'd just have to make the eye focus as if the objects were where they wanted to appear.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snospar on Wednesday January 22 2020, @08:06AM
Contact lenses already have to be perfectly aligned in order to correct for astigmatism. The lenses are created such that the bottom of the lens is heavier than the top and they autorotate into position using nothing more than gravity (and the natural lubrication of the eye).
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