When watching science fiction movies, we often see super high-end AR contact eyes. Although we know that in real life there are no such super high-tech AR contact lenses, we still feel that after wearing AR contact eyes, they can do a lot of things that ordinary people cannot. But! Such a sci-fi thing has actually been realised in real life!
According to foreign media reports, the American startup MojoVision recently released the prototype of its own AR contact lens, MojoLens, on its official website. The contact lens can be used as myopic glasses, but is also responsible for taking pictures and navigation.
As seen from the official website, MojoLens AR contact lenses have four main highlights.
-The world’s smallest
-Display with the highest density of pixels
-Low Latency Communication for AR Devices
-Ultra-accurate eye-tracking system
Although the MojoLens prototype is not the final product, the internal power system of the device is not fully activated and needs to be powered by an external power supply, so there are even safety risks when worn directly. The reporter can only power up the AR contact lens by holding a special holder and putting the AR contact lens close to his eye to feel the display effect.
According to a CNET reporter’s experience, users can not only intuitively see all kinds of information interfaces but also find the destination according to the navigation information. All the information will be presented on a hexagonal micro display, which is less than 0.5 mm in diameter, with 14,000 pixels per inch and a pixel pitch of 1.8 microns, making it the world’s smallest and most dense screen, and one of the highlights of the AR contact lens prototype. The micro LED screen also features MojoVision’s custom optical chip, which displays text, images, and HD video on the wearer’s retina.
CNET reporter Scott Stein: “If I hover over an app icon for a few seconds, I can open the app. If I move my eyes off the page, I can close the application or open another application. “
CNET reporter Scott Stein also mentioned that figuring out how to control the user interface with eye-tracking technology wasn’t easy: “There were times when I didn’t get the desired effect.”
On the other hand, MojoVision hopes that the lenses can act as AR contact lenses as an assistive vision device for people with some visual impairments. Because AR contact lenses can take very high-definition photos, users can then view the photos by zooming in and out in the user interface presented by the AR contact lenses to compensate for their vision defects. However, at this stage, there is still a long way to go before AR contact lenses can actually be worn on the eyes, such as how to solve the battery life problem and convince people to accept placing such electronic devices on their eyeballs, etc.
