Hands-On with Mojo Augmented Reality Contact Lens!

We go eyes-on with the feature prototype of Mojo Lens, an in-development contact lens with an embedded augmented reality display and the electronics needed to run it wirelessly. With a tethered prototype held up to our eye, we could clearly see how the .5mm wide microLED shows images and text as well as a user interface that can be controlled with literal eye tracking. Here's how the Mojo system works and exactly what hardware is packed inside this smart contact lens!
Shot by Josh Self and edited by Norman Chan
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[@tested]

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[@jonathanberry9502]

Hey Adam, um I don't know what rules there might be in what you can and can't test, but I was watching a documentary of a building collapse and a guy was thrown against a wall by a wave of smoke, this made me think of a Mythbusters episode where you guys tested the ability of an explosion to knock someone back without killing them, this made me think than if an explosion was not in open air but say in a tunnel/mine/building the movement of air/gas would be funneled and potentially knock someone over at a distance that would have no such effect in an open air explosion. So you could test if, say a fuel air explosion in a narrow enclosure with only one direction for gasses to escape could knock someone over without breaking pressure discs!

[@cbdrift]

What stops the lens rotating and putting the image upside down or on a weird angle?

[@MetalXMind]

@@cbdrift I belive they said that the lenses are custom made for a person/eye so they lock on and don't move or rotate. My normal contacts don't want to sit anywhere but on my cornea due to how they are shaped, my guess is since the cornea isn't perfectly spherical with enough manufacturing precision you can have the contacts also naturally lock in into a specific rotation.

[@cbdrift]

@@MetalXMind Thank you for the info :)

[@martiehensley4452]

I would love to try one out, thanks for the info.

[@KaptinPlanit]

So amazing that in my time we've gone from "Don't sit too close to the TV" to "Put the TV directly on top of your eyeball".

[@tor13128]

so this lets you watch videos right? what quality is it at?

[@skepticbb93]

TV still rots your brain. Maybe now more than ever.

[@killtoby]

@@tor13128 its most likely not strong enough yet but id say within 5-10 years we will have some solid products

[@Edbrad]

And then… put the TV >IN< your eye. (Augmented eyeball) and then… put the TV in your brain… 👀 🧠

[@itsthem5699]

Well the TVs stopped producing x-rays so that helps

[@SimontheTinker]

I love that he recognizes how many of us want them look like a circuit board in our eyes.

[@axelasdf]

We can already do that.

[@rogers8555]

I do I do

[@bable6314]

@@axelasdf Yeah, just grab a circuit board and a knife.

[@tzxazrael]

i mean, the sort of people who are going to be into this, crossed with the type of people who have the skills to work on it.... feels like it wouldn't need a very large team to get a few "in-house" xD

[@KanedaSyndrome]

If I had these I'd walk around saying "We Are Borg!"

[@owenliquidnitrogen]

Tech like this is gonna be wild in 5-10 more years.

[@joey_outdoors]

in 20 years it will be as common as iPhone and VR are common to us today.

[@Fennetic]

@@joey_outdoors I don't think VR is as common as you think they are :v

[@gotmemes7090]

Maybe in 2050

[@chazzwazzler]

It's crazy how small technology can get. The fact that this somehow has a processor of sorts, eye tracking tech, and a BATTERY in such a tiny and flat space is amazing. I can't wait to see how advanced and refined technology gets in like 20 years, if this is what we can do now.

[@sgsax]

Even if it's just a proof of concept and not totally practical yet, it's still pretty cool. I'm curious about battery life. That cell is pretty tiny.

[@abcdefghijkl123454]

i would assume it is powered via induction by the neck band, the battery would be there for stability EDIT: nevermind, i guess i needed to watch the video 'till the end

[@GeomancerHT]

@@abcdefghijkl123454 might be kinetically powered by blinking or REM or even human heat, as tech advances, hopefully.

[@tested]

They said 2 hours is their target, with a charger that you put it in at the end of the day that’s also a cleaning case.

[@raythink]

Even the best company still couldn't make a decent practical pair of glasses. Who would believe this rubbish？ We can't even have a reasonable light weight VR headset.

[@maskcollector6949]

@@raythink Gotta start somewhere.

[@MikPhish]

My father-in-law helped design and then build the prototype batteries for these things. It’s absolutely incredible the scale on which he is able to machine absolutely minuscule parts, and then assemble them. He was talking about these a few weeks ago- so cool to see something he had his hands in come up in the mainstream!

[@LiftPizzas]

Wow, his fingers must be tiny!

[@nfnworldpeace1992]

o damn thats impressive, care to share a scale so my mind can truly be blown? i mean i know this is all proprietary info but any details to grasp this, maybe chemical comp of battery anything that hes willing to share and you're willing to put the time and efford in would be most welcome

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Mainstream? This is proof of concept.

[@Stethacanthus]

@@SophiaAphrodite I think they're referring to the publicity of the technology, not the implementation.

[@MikPhish]

@@SophiaAphrodite As Stethacanthus stated below, I was referring to the publicity- the technology being featured on such a popular (mainstream) KZbin channel- and not to the technology itself being widespread.

[@andeez_nutz]

Great that they built it to this size, but this thing looks huge. I don't see how anyone could wear that without severe discomfort. My normal soft contacts are already killing me

[@Livefree432Livewhole]

So true. Doesn’t look like this will go anywhere imo

[@Lerpzoid]

We need to start somewhere. The first Internet transmission was sending "login", and it failed after "lo". Look where we are now. Give it some generations it will be tiny

[@professor_farnsworth]

@@Livefree432Livewholeit will almost certainly get somewhere. I think it will need another decade of development before it’s ready for consumers though.

[@evancoleman9456]

@@professor_farnsworth decade is a very long time with our current exponential material science progression

[@lowpolyval]

there’s a lot of larger contacts like color contacts and ones used for cosplay etc. obviously they’re not made to be worn all day but i don’t think this is an unrealistic size to wear for a couple hours and honestly it’s pretty impressive that it’s this small in it’s first stages

[@5alpha23]

This will look so ancient in some years. I can almost feel it - like watching a tech video from the early 2000s right now.

[@joko49perez]

Yes of course. It IS very limited right now, so it's only natural to feel like that in the future.

[@FusionComet]

in 30 years, this look will be an aesthetic. the same way some like their computers to look like its from 1995.

[@2-eg3ri]

if the world war doesn't destroy everything

[@bandicoot543]

Imagine this in 10 years, this is like the equivalent of the 1st smart phone and may end up seeing similar jumps in refinement and quality that those did in a decade. Super exciting to see what the future holds for this.

[@chieftron]

This isn't the equivalent to the first smart phone, this is the equivalent to the 1980's big brick cell phone with no screen. This technology is in its infancy at this point. Look how primitive that display looks. It's resolution and color gradient looks like a Nokia brick cell phone from the 90's. It'd be hilarious if they put the snake game on there as an app to play as a throwback to those early cell phone days. lol. I can only imagine what this tech will be like in 10-20 years, especially if it becomes widely adapted and lots of money is dumped into this tech. It'll have octo-core cpu, with the same gpu equivalent as modern day flagship cellphones, 16gb ram, and 1tb ssd with a UHD display where you have an 8k display.

[@Autoskip]

@@chieftron I doubt that they'd ever go that high res - the only reason that our screens need to have that resolution is because our eyes move all over them - with an on-eye display, you never _need_ more pixels than you have cones and rods to pick up those pixels (admittedly, for maximum compatibility, you'd want a few more as the pixels wouldn't always line up, but the main point still stands). Something I suspect might happen in this product's (probably distant) future though, is covering the circuits with a wraparound screen, so that you can customise your eyes look on a whim.

[@trueneutral3092]

there are risks involved with this tech that endanger our existence, both collectively and individually.. think of every comment you've ever made -- [and, we all make mistakes] especially going back to one's younger days on the internet. with this tech, one wrong comment you make that someone in power doesn't agree with, or one curious google search makes it possible that ONE PERSON who has access to this data would and could abuse a technology like this, and all of a sudden all the people with cpu-enabled contract lenses are granted god-like powers. next thing you know, we are all behind a fence with wires.. whether it's technically called prison, or a "camp" of some sort, or maybe a fun, politically correct phrase that sounds a little more nice: a re-education center, perhaps. .. and that's just one example of the individual intellectual risks, so to speak. This does not even include the risks that implementing AI into these units would pose to our entire existence, as humans. This also doesn't include the physical risks that would kill you, such as battery leaks in your retina, bodily rejection of the device (both short and long term), or a small number of people who might for whatever health reason might not adopt a technology that gives other people significant advantages over them in the longrun. This would severely put a strain on human rights.

[@mrboogang]

Here comes the Apple buyout! Wait for it...

[@jairusstrunk94]

@@Autoskip Nah. Apple will buy it out and sell a new pair in different colors.

[@robertmsoares]

Norm always impresses me on how much he really knows about the product he's talking about and the technologies and even scientific knowledge behind it. Even if it's a prototype, he's never a layman. Well done sir.

[@onionknight2239]

I was just thinking this same thing. What a cool guy 👍

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

cientific

[@robertmsoares]

@@Shrek_Has_Covid19 thank you for pointing out the typo

[@audi4444player]

he's really great at asking the right questions

[@RealKingBacklash]

I feel like when you're genuinely interested it's easy to stay on top of things.

[@GothicMetal669]

In addition to the AR possibilities, once the image resolution is increased, this could easily be used in an opaque lens for VR too .

[@erniesmith2579]

Or be able to transition from clear to opaque…

[@EhCloserLook]

Too expensive for the short term I bet.

[@JaviCastillo_89]

"No matter where you look there's gonna be content" Finally, hell on earth

[@Max_Chooch]

Oh man, as a mechanic this would be awesome. Imagine having torque specs pop up just by looking at the bolts that need torqued. Or being able to look at a part and pull up replacement procedure information.

[@Greant76]

hell, as a non-mechanic, i'd be happy with looking at a nut and showing wrench size

[@MrLohken]

I wonder if you could have a built in welding goggles?

[@TheTWhite]

If you want sunburn all over your exposed skin and bare eyeball, sure.

[@tnylilrobot]

@@MrLohken Theres people who have tried something similar and AFAIK the problem with contacts for blocking intense light like that is they actually heat up and can damage your eyeball

[@RootPCSales]

@@MrLohken At the factory I work at, you can't even wear regular prescription contacts, as there is a fairly decent chance they can melt to your eyeball. Just like polyester shouldn't be worn while welding, it can catch fire and melt to your skin.

[@darkfoxa]

It's absolutely incredible to think that 60 years ago, a computer would fill a room. Later time, you got that same and even more powerful computing power in your pocket, and soon it's so small it can fit on your eye! There are no limits

[@darkfoxa]

@Ken It will deffo have it's own usecases and applications. And I would agree, I'd prefer glasses myself I think. I've tried contact lenses but I couldn't get used to inserting them

[@seditt5146]

There are without a doubt Limits, we are at them. Soon we will move to Photonics and that limit will be greatly lowered and abilities expanded. When we perfect photonic chips it will look like Magic being millions of times faster than CPUs while also allowing Quantum computations to be done. THEN we will have virtually no limits.

[@Dizzeke]

@@seditt5146what makes you think we're at any limit? last i checked EVERYTHING tech related has been improving leaps and bounds consistently during my entire lifetime, every year there's new and improved technology using the same stuff just better

[@seditt5146]

@@Dizzeke Because due to quantum thermal effects we can't shrink chips much more. This means we cant increase clockrates on chips without instantly burning them up. Moores law is slowing down and soon To be completely dead due to this limitation. Photons however not only move faster but have virtually unlimited bandwidth meaning we can overlay different frequencies onto the same amount of space since photons do not obey Paulie exclusion principle. Electrons will interact with each other, photons however go through each other. If we use photons instead of electrons we can make a single cpu not only behave like hundreds of thousands of cpu, each frequency acting like its own chip, but we can increase the clock rate without overheating the CPU to roughly 1 million mhz from studies i have seen. For comparison our current CPU burn up around 6000Mhz or 6Ghz So, many thousands of times faster, can act like a GPU with virtually unlimited cores, and can perform quantum calculations that normal classical chips can't. THESE have virtually zero limits yet our chips these days have reached their limit. Does this explain what I mean?

[@Edbrad]

I suspect one possibility is that eventually a major kind of “computer” will be the brain, and everything else is just a conduit to facilitate it. Like have the brain generate its own UI, (ie.Imagine/hallucinate) or process complex calculations. You’d assume the brain couldn’t cope with too much more going on but if you take psychedelics you can see the mind/brain is clearly capable of so much more that you couldn’t have even imagined it. Like the normal every day consciousness is looking out the top of a lake and psychedelics pull you under and show you how much more there is down there. Or it’s like only seeing the tip of the iceberg. But we also know the brain is callable of so much more just by looking a savants. Like you’d assume it would be impossible to do the things savants can do.

[@DANT98]

I'm most interested in how the eye tracking and display work together. I think this will mean you can select context data based on exactly what the user is looking at, which seems like a huge enabler.

[@TransistorBased]

One of the things that had me worried was heat output for graphics generation, streaming content seems like a good way to get around that. I would still be super nervous about having a battery essentially embedded in my eye

[@Revenant483]

CP 2077 that image of the sparks shooting out of your eyes :D

[@Shorkshire]

Why? It's not a battery that can explode or do anything like that like the battery in your phone or laptop. There are many different types of batteries other that Li-ion

[@Revenant483]

@@Shorkshire Very true! I think it was just a way for the OP to express concern about having a potentially hazardous battery that close to ones eye.

[@shinobieuc]

@@Revenant483 i mean phones have li-ion battery and most people have it infront of their face or on the side of the face for calls, that can still blow up,

[@Revenant483]

@@shinobieuc This is also very true! I guess it is a risk we all take to use modern tech. Makes you wonder how far man will go to prove a concept.

[@breezie3116]

I remember watching Futurama when I was younger, and they did an episode on what the IPhone would be in the future, and they called it the Eyephone. It’s a similar concept to this, but I remember thinking how unrealistic but fascinating that would be to have AR integrated into our reality like that. It’s insane that that futuristic fantasy is becoming a reality. We really are living in our childhood versions of “The Future”

[@Cold_Cactus]

Till somone hacks it and makes the road look like the sidewalk to make you walk into traffic.....

[@MitsugamiZero]

@@Cold_Cactus gawddamn!!!! 🤣🤣

[@kickasspeanuts]

im not looking forward to getting a massive spike being hammered into my ear, gonna be honest.

[@nizitamaruvaka2294]

But where's the hoverboards?!?!

[@munkyman33]

Don't worry, they are sold out. They may have one more in the back though.

[@vgaportauthority9932]

The scale of this is such that I can't even really believe this is a thing that exists and functions. I'm sure it exists, but my brain is just going "nope." Veeeery impressive tech.

[@___echo___]

A lot of tech and science goes more in that direction as things get more and more specialized

[@AydenRose04]

I can just imagine that this is how people felt about the first computers or the first phones

[@greensteve9307]

Same.

[@Pixelsplasher]

After seeing that it only displays a spotlight area of a virtual green monochrome screen, my brain started agreeing that it exists.

[@ItsHyomoto]

@@AydenRose04 The first phone was limited to only calling the other room, it took a hundred years to get to the smart phone. The first computers were human beings in rooms doing reams of calculations. If this is truly new, then what you should feel is that it has a long way to go.

[@tonystone256]

Man, I used to wear contact lenses... and this just gives me pain to think about since it has got to be thicker than normal lenses. I can not actually imagine wearing these. It does sound intriguing though.

[@roflman2122]

same I appreciate the effort its a neat sci-fi dream but this needs at least another 10 years to actually be great - ar glasses might be the way to go

[@rimkokoa3766]

I mean, we need to start somewhere right? 🤔

[@roflman2122]

@@rimkokoa3766 definetly its a groundbreaking step, this technology will be insane in 30ish years for sure - so good its a little dystopian even

[@MidnightWolfSDJ]

I look forward to this tech! I just hope it lasts a long time (for contacts) and each lens not be super expensive. I definitely see a huge amount of potential with this sort of tech. Main thing that would be nice is mechanical charging like the shake charge flashlights. Would be cool if it constantly charged as the eye moves around. I just fear it overheating though too! Would be unfortunate to lose eye sight due to batteries exploding.

[@adbrooks95]

No doubt, it will be expensive at first. Luxury as a matter of fact. Eventually it will be available to people who aren't rich probably

[@Bobqwt]

While it may be a bit difficult to see the display in sunlight, would it be possible to use the display while your eyes are closed? Which would allow you to keep the display dimmer to preserve battery.

[@joeyguss4931]

i would think this would be possible since it doesnt seem to track points in the field of view it just tracks the gyroscopic movement of your eyes

[@KristovMars]

Article says the display is microLED so that should still work with closed eyes, unless closing them changes some critical parameter like the shape of the lens for example. It's almost too amazing to believe!

[@JohnGottschalk]

I look forward to having ads directly on my eyeball, and not even being able to avoid them by closing my eyes.

[@GuardianTiger]

@@JohnGottschalk omg XD

[@tylerweatherby7131]

@@JohnGottschalk with it paired to a more powerful processing unit and it not being able to receive the data without it as it would be too power intensive to process said data into a usable format. You could just shut off the main processing unit and be fine

[@JeepnHeel]

Imagine being able to see exclusive offers and exciting discounts in every direction you look. It would definitely make the "eyes closed" ad breaks well worth it!

[@NochSoEinKaddiFan]

This sums up perfectly what you can see in the beginning of Mirrors edge:catalyst. Also, it is so sad that we simply know for a fact, that every cool new technology will be abused by advertisement as soon as possible. Very sad. This still is very cool technology

[@omgbutterbee7978]

Ads all day no matter if your eyes are open or closed. Boy howdy is that the dream or what

[@patricksanders858]

You can always take them off.

[@patricksanders858]

@@omgbutterbee7978 no one is forcing you to wear them.

[@JeepnHeel]

@@patricksanders858 And break the user agreement? Don't you know how many ads you have to watch if the sensor reports an unworn condition?

[@chrisseydel5757]

"No matter where you look there's gonna be content if we want to show you content" Love the idea of having super eyes, but wonder how adaptable and disconnected big tech will be

[@montyburnham7704]

This is one of the most incredible tech demos I've seen in a while

[@bluelotuslandscapes]

This is the stuff I’ve been waiting for. I’ve tried the current audio smart glasses and love them. Been wearing Bose Frames and Echo Frames for several years now. A visual AR experience is the next dream. They sound like they’re serious and legit. Give it 5-10 years and I’ll be wearing AR contacts and invisible hearing aids with integrated speakers and will be able to have that hands free digital experience. Looking forward to it… right up until Google and Amazon start slapping advertising over everything.

[@GFG2gifted]

As a contact user there's tons of hurdles they have to overcome to make these practical for everyday use. 2 hours battery life, and needing to buy new ones every 3 weeks due to protein and bacteria build up, this ain't it chief. There's no such thing as a non replaceable contact. I can already see these being banned by government official use like judges, cops, and lawyers, jurors, and even doctors. Sooo many lawsuits. I forsee these being similar to heelies in terms of legislation and rules. They basically were taken off the market due to schools and works saying no.

[@GFG2gifted]

Imagine a boss finding an employee jerking it because they're watching pron on the contacts. Sooo many issues I just see them being restricted everywhere.

[@picklewart5382]

@@GFG2gifted K boomer. 🙄 Jokes aside, this does seem like a pretty dumb idea. If you're going to go with augmented vision, then you might as well replace the whole eye for a more permanent and functional solution. I mean these could be useful as samples for those unsure of whether they want to commit to losing an entire eye and having it replaced with a machine one, but otherwise.....yeah.

[@Unknown-wi4ku]

@@GFG2gifted Why would they get banned by those groups? I agree there is a lot of hurdles namely the battery I would think, not sure how they propose to go about that without getting power from us somehow or massive battery innovation. It's possible there is a solution for build up that is just not cost efficient in normal cases but becomes so when electronics become involved, although that is just speculation on my part, is there really no way to clean contact lens?

[@GFG2gifted]

@@Unknown-wi4ku even with the best lense solution on the market contacts still accumulate protein build up. After enough protein build up, said protein bonds to the protein in your eyes. You'll then need the contacts surgically removed with an oddly shaped knife. I myself have pulled off a portion of the surface of my cornea from a contact that I used longer than I should have. Back to your other question. The same reason cellphones aren't allowed in a court room. The electronic eyes allow for unchecked information gathering and sharing. It's dangerous in sectors where that would be an issue such as a courtroom. Lawyer could be watching headlines on Facebook and nobody would know. As a countermeasure they'd be banned from many areas.

[@JessicaJaniuk]

This is fascinating tech! I was just imagining using it for a teleprompter for speaking at events or recording videos with the script right in your vision naturally all the time. There's so many practical uses for it. I'm really excited to see how quickly it improves.

[@tested]

a teleprompter was exactly one of the use cases and demos they had! I could look down and the text would start scrolling slowly-very readable in that prototype display too

[@ChuckD99]

How long until there are ads? 🤔

[@ninetailedfox579121]

@@ChuckD99 Have you never seen Minority Report? Ads will become a normal part of everyday life.

[@choo_choo_]

@@ChuckD99 You're thinking about it the wrong way. In a future where everyone has these, there's a likelihood that all ads would be a blank canvas that the ad is projected onto. After that, with some ezpz adblock, they'd all just be blank white canvases. With the added benefit that you see absolutely NO ads at all irl. Say goodbye to billboards and other advertisements that exist in physical space that you can't skip or block. Sounds pretty good to me. I hate being advertised to.

[@Thezuule1]

@@ninetailedfox579121 will? Didn't that already happen?

[@RaysOfPivot]

Pretty neat. Lots and lots of hurdles and things to think about to make this work really well. Once the tech is better established and more functional I'll be excited to try it

[@serpuffmcpass5859]

I would sign up to test this before you could blink an eye 😉 This stuff is what my dreams are made of, I can't wait until this is available to the public! I'll definitely be watching this project closely

[@PuppyMonsters]

I am absolutely in love with the advancement in tech that has gotten us to the point of having these, but I worry about the heat that all electronics produce and how it will effect the eye and the user's comfort.

[@mikeyfreeman5776]

Ye idk how it works but if there’s a little battery in there that can overheat I think you could go blind pretty fast

[@tzxazrael]

i feel like that would be one of the points the FDA (etc) would have to look at. hard to approve a device for "all day wearability" if it starts to burn your eye after half a day. but on the flip side; i imagine this is something mojo has already considered, and taken steps to minimize.

[@ActionfigureGeek]

@@tzxazrael the FDA lol

[@PlayerXIII]

I'd much rather just wear AR glasses. Since a wifi necklace is needed, I'd rather not risk something against my eyeball and have all the hardware at a safe distance

[@Conman123Official]

Power draw for a device that small would basically mean it can't actually get hot, unless something goes wrong in the battery. There just isn't enough energy available to produce any significant heat

[@0Ninja0Dude0]

Man this is one of the most practical devices ever. Navigation, interacting with smart home features, pulling up script work, I could think of hundreds of uses.. I'll probably be 50 by the time it hits the market and need glasses too

[@jaym5938]

Too bad I can't wear contacts anymore. Hats-off to these guys for this prototype. Just amazing!

[@SS-cv4fo]

why?

[@Chino-Kafu]

Omg it's Futuramas Eye-Phone!!!!

[@adamjensen6376]

Does this get 200gb on it..

[@elijanzen4015]

My first thought was powering these with the RF signal used to communicate with them. The power transfer efficiency of other devices that do that is terrible, but I wonder if it would be enough to power that tiny display. It seems like you would be able to reduce the thickness a lot by removing the battery

[@BIkaloss]

Yeah also the tought of having what i assume are lithium-ion batteries directly on your eyeballs is kinda scary. They tend to heat up and even ignite at times.

[@darksunrise957]

@@BIkaloss considering the extremely small size, there's a very good chance that they're using some other sort of battery tech that has a simpler construction. Also, a good idea would be to make thinner points on the exterior of the lens so that if there IS some rupture or expansion, it would blow directly away from your eyeball in a controlled manner. I'm sure this battery stuff has been one of their main focuses, though, considering how obvious of a failure/danger/limitation point they are; and if the engineers they have are smart enough to design all of the insanity that goes into this tech, I'm sure they're looking at solutions none of us have even thought of.

[@AMan-xz7tx]

@@BIkaloss they said it needs to be certified by the FDA (like any other medical equipment, since it's technically a contact lens), I assume the battery NEEDS to be fail safe in the case of catastrophic battery failure, or else they'd just not allow it to go to market.

[@zerozeta1090]

I remember when people started on augmented contacts, it was just a single LED with an RF receiver that powered the LED. Was hoping they were going to be able to continue with that so you could have battery free contacts.

[@nfnworldpeace1992]

i was typing this same comment but then i was thingking about interference on the power signal which could lead to the thing just killing it self when near anything that also uses remote charging

[@HeyItsKora]

I have a condition where basically I can only look through one eye at any given moment. Both of my eyes work, I'm not blind in one eye, it's literally just that at any given moment I literally have to pick which eye I look through (I can switch eye voluntarily on command), and the eye that I don't look through still sees, but it's like it's more an extension of peripheral vision rather than actually SEEING more in front of me. This means that I cannot, and have never experienced seeing the world in 3D. My perception of the world is the same as when a normal person watches TV. You can clearly see and understand that what you're looking at is 3D, but you perceive it as a flat, 2D image on screen. That is how I have always seen the world. The idea that these contact lenses could show me for the first time ever what it's like to see in 3D is amazing and really exciting. Even if it wouldn't allow me to see the actual real world in 3D, I still think it's exciting that they could make corrections/adjustments for my eyes that could maybe allow me to see even just the HUD/interface as a 3D image is insane! (I've left out details of my condition, but from what he explained about being able to create a 3D image if using two contacts, I know that this would indeed mean that they could make a few minor adjustments to my eyes specifically which absolutely would enable my "inactive" eye to actually perceive in 3D- even if it wouldn't technically make my inactive eye more active per se, my inactive eye is still "active enough" so to speak, to be able to perceive in 3D under the right conditions. (And because people always seem to ask this about me, indeed my condition also means that I can't see 3D movies in 3D, the 3D glasses have absolutely no effect on me. As a kid, before I or my parents knew about this aspect of my condition, I always just thought that 3D movies sucked, well maybe they do anyway, but for me they REALLY sucked haha- because I didn't find out until much later that it was physically impossible for me to perceive 3D images! It was only as an adult that I put two and two together and realised I had a different notion of what 3D was)

[@JasonJBrunet]

"Where ever you look there's always going to be content, if we want to show you content." That sounds like hell on earth.

[@xarfram]

Don't get me wrong this is absolutely incredible, but I feel like I'd rather stick with AR glasses because my whole life I've had a fear of putting in contacts and I don't see that ever changing

[@RocketCityGardener]

Obviously not trivial, but they'll eventually be able to pack this into corneal implant. Surgically implanted...maybe charged wirelessly with something in a sleep mask.

[@jackmccrary2614]

@@RocketCityGardener As someone who has bilateral corneal grafts and works as a provider in the medical field, I believe that really is not going to be a mass market solution. The body heals by transporting repair materials via blood vessels and the cornea has very limited vascularization. This means that it takes a very, very long time for the cornea to heal from trauma. Both times, my recovery period was fairly typical and was measured in years. OTOH, for people with severe corneal disorders like late stage keratoconus, these contacts could be a godsend as they could mitigate some of the vision loss be being able to work around the disrupted corneal topology. Also, if we ever develop the medical tech to speed up corneal healing by orders of magnitude, this tech could be a foundational piece of tech that affected billions. We autonomously fine-tune our vision by using the muscle surrounding the eye to slightly and temporarily alter the physical shape of the eye. When we squint to see better, this is us assuming conscious control of that autonomic function. As we age (typically in the 4th decade of life) we gradually loose the muscle tone needed to fine tune our vision. This is why the elderly and middle-aged often wear bifocals. But if miniaturized computer processors like this exist, they could be mated to miniaturized piezo-electric winches to dynamically supplement or replace the function of the orbital muscles when it comes to fine-tuning your vision.

[@logansewell7367]

I had a fear of contacts as well when I was young. My vision is very poor and I have a double stigmatism but glasses were always uncomfortable and way too magnified to the point I would get migraines and my peripheral vision was basically non existent. I’ve found after wearing contacts now for over 10 years they are far more convenient and comfortable once you get used to taking them in and out it becomes second nature and I highly encourage anyone with bad vision that wears glasses every day to try and overcome your fear or nervousness about your eyes as it has very much improved my comfort in day to day life!

[@Shorkshire]

It's extremely easy to get over fears, especially unfounded ones like yours.

[@roberine7241]

yeah I would rather have glasses as well. not just fear of contacts, but also being used to glasses and battery lifetime.

[@scottgardener]

This definitely gets my interest, and I hope I can use something like this soon. I do wonder about how well this can fit into a soft lens rather than a hard one (he did say they were scleral, which I've worn before OK), and I wonder about heat generation when you get that kind of miniaturization; I would not want a battery overheating on my cornea.

[@darkfur18]

It's not the typical battery that can catch fire, lol. Probably closer to a capacitor in design

[@marlinbundo2409]

@@darkfur18 capacitors can also fail in spectacular fashion, causing fires or electric shock

[@darkfur18]

@@marlinbundo2409 only electrolytic capacitors fail in such spectacular fashion, owing to the fact that they have a liquid electrolyte to vent (like batteries). Solid state capacitors such as ceramic capacitors are many orders of magnitude safer

[@moomanchu608]

Soft lenses are not possible with this. They are too fragile and easily rip. Scleral is actually genius because it is one of the healthiest forms of contact lens with the best vision while being customizable snd durable

[@danielmcdowell2003]

Don't worry want some few people lose their site they'll get it right

[@onilink00]

4:48 "We like to say it's an unlimited field of view because no matter where you look there's always gonna be content if we want to... show you content through the system." Nicely put, spokesperson, you can always put content in my eyes no matter where I look. Even he noticed the implications and tried steering the conversation to the other road. Ad companies are really on board with this product.

[@stevecarr7338]

As a contact lens wearer I will say they are heard to put in and out at first, it will take time to learn. Getting them back out is the hard part because they are stuck to your eye ball with suction. Also your eyes can get very dry so I'd recommend eye drops.

[@montgomerymontgomery]

This is very cool and I’m excited for the future. One concern I have is comfort. I wear contact lenses on a regular basis and these lenses look much much harder than a conventional lens.

[@HelenaOfDetroit]

Scleral lenses aren't bad and quite comfortable IF they fit your eyes. If your eyes are larger than they can still work, but they'll feel "tight" and be a bit hard to remove. However, if you have small eyes, then they won't fit at all. Typical scleral lenses fit the majority of most people, but (sadly) I'm an outlier and they don't make sclerals for my eyes. I've even tried, but my eyeballs are too small so they just bunch up in the corner and drop out.

[@biobagholder8081]

i can't wait for them to sell my eye tracking information to advertisers 😻

[@tzxazrael]

@@HelenaOfDetroit they did say the intent is to custom-fit each person's lens to the person... so maybe that will help?

[@parden3743]

@@HelenaOfDetroit so you have hypermetropia? It is weird that myopia and hypermetropia have a direct relation with the eye size, and the lenses are supposed to fix the vision, but then they make only one size...

[@ch5412]

Super exciting, you can tell we still have a long way to go, but they seem relatively closer than I would have predicted for something like this.

[@taggy87]

Absolutely fascinating to me! I love the idea and can see myself actually using a pair of those, not that I would be able to afford them anyways... I imagine a future where these things incorporate a thermoelectric generator, so the battery is actually just a buffering element for short time applications like residual light amplification or something like that. Maybe I'm thinking to "cyberpunk-esque" but imagine the possibilities of furthering research and development and combining efforts with implantology. Restoring vision by integrating most if not all of the necessary components into an artificial eyeball, where there is a lot more space than the surface of contact lenses, maybe even attaching the muscles to it, so moving is at least a possibility.

[@customwhosonicsbyjedidiahr5893]

What about using the bodies own electrical current to power it.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

I love this work they are doing.

[@Shadows_Inc]

I've been watching this company for the past 4 or 5 years or so, and I think it will definitely be one of the bigger steps toward the "cyber enhancement" future many people want, and many are afraid of.

[@Shadows_Inc]

@ödīñ ŵïlšøń You might be surprised. There are people that would cut off parts of their own bodies to have robotic prosthetics if the technology was advanced enough, it's just not yet. I think "wearing contacts" is a little more tame than that.

[@axgreenious9400]

@@Shadows_Inc Like people wanting to get a "cyber dick?" Joking aside, I believe some or a lot of this tech is a bit scary and will be used for nefarious reasons (not saying it is the intent of the inventor's featured product). I imagine the time will present itself in the future where society is living in a complete surveillance state; humans will be the new "Ring" cameras... But, I'd trade future tech for a piece of mind to protect everyone's right to privacy (4th Amendment). However, it will be wild once "Rule 34" gets a hold of this technology.

[@Shadows_Inc]

@@axgreenious9400 I never said it wouldn't be. It almost certainly will. The Ghost in the Shell movie, and the Standalone Complex show (and 2nd Gig a bit as well) show a future worth "expecting", not anticipating. Situations where people have parts of their bodies hacked and hijacked, identity becomes blurry, and economic issues become further rampant through the inequality that advancement creates. It's a fun ride, check it out.

[@Mibris]

@@Shadows_Inc I'd love that shit, I wouldn't exchange working body parts but extended things like this contact lens or Neurallink sound amazing to me

[@caralho5237]

@@Mibris If technology was good enough i'd go full cyborg. make myself an 8 feet tall tank

[@mydeadstarbedk5715]

Technically is amazing, the fact that we went from a whole room needed to show something on a big screen to a micro display on a contact with a usable interface is mind blowing, but as all technology goes this is going straight to the army and used in war.

[@Tesoro1996]

Obviously. It would be a great thing for army, very practical. I just can imagine the projected crosshair linked with the weapon's barrel like in a video game. xD

[@ricolorenz7307]

The military takes cutting edge technology, dumbs it down to a level middle schoolers could understand, then once it's deep fried, they implement it into their training and operations. By the time it's actually being used in practice, it's no better than ten years previous technology, and it's more of a hassle to use than an aid. But dammit, you're going to use it, because if you don't, the government will lose contracts and funding, and god forbid some officer made a mistake signing those contracts.

[@sauroros]

Yes! I'm so excited!

[@lucapipino]

Awesome technology. We've been waiting for years. Big data companies were waiting for this too: I can't wait to have advertisements everywhere I look. Maybe even when I close my eyes.

[@StuffandThings_]

Okay so first of all this is insanely cool. I'm sure most of us have dreamed up something like this at one point, and I for one would love working there someday. I must also say that this is just _mildly_ terrifying, like the potential for spy technology here is off the charts. I just hope that everybody is responsible with this fantastic new technology.

[@xLuky]

Yeah the potential for advertising is off the charts too. Imagine just looking at a product in a store and then being forced to watch an ad about it, you can't even look away or close your eyes to avoid watching.

[@creapyalbinofish]

I feel like the glasses form factor is the best implementation of ar technology due to how much more flexible it can be. Other than that, it will be difficult to be secure I guess the best you can do is mind what companies you are looking at buying from.

[@ricolorenz7307]

I'm going to intercept the radio frequency and beam anime girls directly onto your retinas. You better watch out

[@ccramit]

The CIA already has toys you won't even see in the commercial sector until the year 2050. This stuff is child's play.

[@adaauvel1389]

@@xLuky I think if this ever did become an issue it wouldn't be one for long. It would be way too dangerous if someone was driving, and it would be too easy for people to outright abandon the technology in its entirity unless they somehow found a way to make it necessary for day to day life.

[@mcscrubington3120]

As an optician, I appreciated the detailed questions about motion tracking. That was my first concern because if they had not taken the pupil's tremor into account I could see them having significant trouble with motion blur.

[@waynekarlen7943]

I participated in university soft lens experiments in the 90's using a small red area in the middle to place in one eye to correct my red-black color blindness without changing my eye color to red like my red hard contact lens (vs natural green in the other eye). Worked fine to improve color vision but researchers found that the soft lens floats around on the eye too much which was very distracting to anyone to whom you make eye contact. I trust this material stays in one place on the eyeball unlike a soft lens?

[@user-hi7jk6fu3f]

I would love to see if we could get access to something like night/heat vision with something like this and if there will be a way for people to create their own applications for this. I’m so excited for the future.

[@sepro5135]

I mean, you would probably need something like an infrared camera, that is connected and has a wide field of view, but then, I see no reason why not

[@net28573]

No heat vision possible, you need a special filter that removes visible light in order to do thermal imaging. Additionally, thermals cost loads in order to get low pixel densities. The small displays up against the eye require very high pixel densities so I'd expect it to not arrive any sooner than 20 years without being in the 5000+ price range at the cheapest.

[@franckyahi3384]

This is absolutly fantastic , terrific

[@PsychoticWolfie]

FINALLY! Even if it takes another decade to fully go from prototype to production, I can't wait for this!! This kind of thing has been getting hyped for over two decades now! Glad to see it's actually coming to fruition :)

[@PsychoticWolfie]

And to the company itself: It doesn't NEED that artificial iris color on the outside! Many of us wanna look all cyberpunk when we wear these, function over form!

[@ricolorenz7307]

I'm waiting for the day that I can chop off my arms and legs and become a cyborg. Neural link too. As I get older, I feel my brain slowing down, and if I had the chance to feel the kind of processing power I did in high school again, I'd buy it in an instant.

[@TechVamp]

This is some crazy tech, so crazy how much mojo lens has improved in the last 2 years

[@darchangeldavid]

Oh yeah! I’ve been waiting for this!

[@egnition8329]

this is insane, i want one

[@Bad_Wolf_Media]

I would not wish to take anything away from the revolutions this company is leading in tech, but when he said (around 5:18 ) that it's the first true eye-control tech interface, I would argue that Canon's been doing some of that for a while. They introduced eye-control autofocus - tracking the user's eye in the viewfinder to move focus points - way back in 1992 with the EOS 5 (or the EOS A2E here in the States), and it's been resurrected now in the mirrorless Canon R3. It's not to the same scale (physical scale or application scale) as what Mojo is doing, but there ARE eye-tracking systems that have been in the world for a while.

[@bowmanruto]

eye tracking has been a thing for decades, but its always been outside in tracking, as in it looks at the eye position and then calculates like its a ball where the eye is looking, because this is attached to the eye it will use on board trackers to give ''true'' eye tracking, its like doing finger tracking via a camera vs finger tracking by putting a motion sensor on your finger... also a thing I see everyone overlooking, they did not name a price... this is propably for a good reason as just getting a pair of scleral contacts is $1200 per pair... and that is without the tech, this stuff will cost $3000-4000 *easily*

[@BunnySeer]

I remember a while back that someone used eye tracking systems on neurotypical and autistic individuals and then showed them different scenes to distinguish what details they look at first. Neurotypical people tend to find humans in a scene first, whereas the autistic indiviuals eyes were first drawn to the largest repeating pattern. (Floor tiles, bookshelves, etc. )

[@jefflhama]

These companies love to recreate history. I can t wait anything good coming from this type of tech

[@KarltheBarl]

This would be able to track your eyes directly

[@hazardjsimpson]

It's cool to see people working on the cutting edge of tech and thinking forward. I don't see these having any usefulness for a decade at least, but it creates a great framework for when all the tech needed to make this fully viable becomes available.

[@anonnnnnnnnnnnn]

well said

[@SailorDaniel]

I think the end product is within sight . I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

[@stefansedman5179]

A whole new meaning to hand eye coordination, exciting possibilities….

[@styrofoamcow6996]

Super cool tech! in ten years this will probably be functional and on the market.

[@zukaro]

Instead of a necklace you have to wear to communicate with it, it should be bone conducting headphones. That way you get additional functionality from the communication relay and add audio to the experience (and bone conducting is superior as it lets you be able to hear everything around you still).

[@bluelotuslandscapes]

Bone conduction is still kind of flakey and sound quality isn’t great currently but definitely tie it into some kind of wireless earbuds with pass through to offload the computing and get the full audio/visual experience.

[@jamesCamali]

Can't wait for one of these to catch fire in my eye. Gonna be lit.

[@pinkpixie8686]

i hope they can get it so its not just a tiny circle where the AR stuff shows up but your hole vision. im so exited about what AR could bring/do do in the fruter. just think of all the possibilities, better teaching programs, virtual pets/cloths/hair or evan decorations, you could even have large virtual events where anything is possible really. it will be so cool. :)

[@xivix6710]

That pretty cool and a big step forward! I would assume they would face a problem with oxygen permeability (OP) which is one of the main parameters that determines the period in which the lenses can be worn continuously. The higher the thickness the lower the OP factor and the period the lens can be worn. But I hope this is not an issue.

[@trueneutral3092]

"Forward" (fixed it for you)

[@mcscrubington3120]

They are probably using some kind of silicone-acrylate to keep the thickness down and thus increase oxygen transmission. But even if they are using PMMA you'll still need to take them out every night so it's not a huge deal.

[@travispiercy8552]

This is freaking awesome even if it is in the proof of concept because from this it doesn’t seem to long before this is a marketable product. Science, design and tech are pretty cool when they are put to work together.

[@mshumai]

Looks cool, but with all the irritation and eye infection I've already experience with corrective contact lens that has me opting for glasses makes me less enthusiastic for AR contacts, especially ones that are rigid and thick. The eye is not a static/rigid piece of hardware, but rather a dynamic and fluid biological organ that may not take well to having a large foreign object covering it for long periods of time. Interested to see how this develops and evolves nonetheless.

[@steelorse]

exactly! I was not risking something so precious for so little! imagine the battery exploding for whatever reason, even if it's small, it's probably enough to cause permanent eye damage. Colored contact lenses for events are really not recommended for all the trouble it causes, so I don't want to imagine anything like that. Glasses will do the job.

[@gorkskoal9315]

that. also: software? apps? what would actually do? what about costs? AR, as it is, has very niche applications unfortunatly. What about repairs when things go wrong?

[@RadagonTheRed]

This is certainly the beginning, but like all concept prototypes it has a long way to go before it’s anything like what he hope for. But it’s a great start!

[@WhatnotArt]

This is so cool! I am blown away by the way this technology is all compacted into such a small item.

[@cintron3d]

Oh snap, thank you Norm! Idk if you saw I requested this on Twitter or not but so glad you covered this exciting new tech!

[@tested]

I got you 👍

[@onedaya_martian1238]

@@tested You are living the life dude !! ...surfing the leading edge of technology and bringing it to us. Jealous and appreciative !!

[@jayyy1041]

That is just fantastic. My only concern is the battery. I'd hate for it to explode in my eye but I assume these will have to be replaced every so often rather than swapping out batteries

[@kenwittlief255]

shhhhhh! electronics never fail or burn up its sitting right on you eyeball, floating in salty water, projecting a green laser onto the rods and cones inside your eye - what could possibly go wrong?!

[@ristube3319]

Been waiting since my childhood in the 80’s for this!

[@JohnGottschalk]

The reason we rarely have eye control is because you need to build in delay into buttons to make sure you don't accidentally click things. People hate delays to actions. In comparison having a small remote with instantaneous buttons will just always feel better, that's why every VR set has a controller. If you want it to be hands free, then probably you want some linked micro-movement jaw controls like in the original Starship Troopers book.

[@disgruntledwookie369]

Completely agree. I would have a separate button somewhere for left/right click lol

[@Mike28625]

I was just thinking of using winks as mouse clicks

[@hikari8871]

maybe in the future they'll add the technology to sync this up with neuralink

[@JohnGottschalk]

@@Mike28625 that's also cool, but you might develop some weird ticks, or it might register uncontrolled blinks as clicks which would also not be great. And there's some folks out there who honestly don't know how to wink or have a disability that stops them from being able to.

[@PenguinYayOne]

What about double blinking?

[@Alakazzam09]

I've always thought this kind of tech could revolutionize communication. Imagine real-time language translation or even hearing-impaired people seeing the conversation instead of staring at a phone or reading lips. I also imagine it could be charged wirelessly with a pair of sunglasses or a stick-on device like the blood glucose monitors or even a Jordi visor lol. Even if it's just a prototype this is very exciting stuff. Top marks as always Norm, thank you for showing this off.

[@Wulfnstein]

If they make a speach to text for hearing-impaired I do hope it will have a visual like a text balloon from the comics.

[@Armadder]

Real time subtitles

[@michiganmoto7687]

This would be amazing tech for hunting and shooting sports if it could feed you info like range finding, Sind speed/direction. Holdover and windage adjustments based on known ballistics data for the firearm and cartridge being used. Obviously huge military applications. Also as a motorcycle rider, having navigation overlay without the need to take my eyes off the road and current speed display. Incredible advantage. Obviously would take time to get used to not having your attention being target fixated on the screen data and still be aware of what’s happening on the road ahead. Which brings up the question of focal point or focal fixation when the display is active. Are you able to see display info and real world simultaneously or is your brain only seeing the display since it’s right there?

[@scientia_potentia_est]

I'd go with over-the-ear (ear hook) style open earbuds (like the Oladance open ear headphones) as the relay computing device instead of a necklace. That way you also get auditory integration, and the relay device is actually closer to the lenses. Although, if the cameras are on the relay computing device, then the necklace would be the only way to go.

[@sid35gb]

Just imagine these with thermal imaging, night vision capabilities range finding, trajectory overlay, facial recognition technology, every phone app, number plate reader, fingerprint reader, high power zoom, rear view camera, the list of crazy is endless. This is a step to the human cyborg interface.

[@--Nath--]

Or maybe instead of all that distraction.. imagine it can block out advertising anywhere it is in the real world. An ad block service that nothing can get past.

[@asfandiyar5829]

This feels beyond magic

[@IamAsar]

Incredible

[@thomascanant9142]

I would love to help test the prototype! This is amazing tech that can change everything! Imagine while you're at the gym working out, you've already sent emails, responded to text, and now you're attending a meeting virtually and you can see everyone at the meeting as if you were sitting in the room with them. Then you look up to check your vitals, you look to your left and your virtual pet is on the treadmill next to you, off to your right in the distance you see someone left there water at a treadmill so you send notification to the gym, and their ai concierge notifies the person that their item is still where they left it. The possibilities of this tech combined with a few other emerging technologies over the next few years are going to be amazing!

[@deefdragon]

Id love these if they could get the battery to 4 hours actual. (I expect their "2 hours" is an actually close to 60-90 minutes real usage.) If they could do that I could see these being genuinely useful in so many industrial applications, construction sites, athletics, entertainment, education or presentations. Just all the things.

[@tzxazrael]

they said they're aiming for 2h of _actual_ usage, over a full day... but i'm sure they would be quite happy to go much longer as well. ofc, they didn't mention what the _current_ battery life was like... xD

[@zeedstun891]

i think youre expecting a bit much. These will functionally be glorified smart watches at least for the next 10 years

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

@@zeedstun891 Well I mean those have a pretty chonky battery life usually. Also I just realized you mean their applications. Yeah. Probably gonna be a gidget for a while.

[@whimbur]

@@zeedstun891 a lot of people said stuff like that about the internet

[@whimbur]

It's probably possible to charge it with a larger battery somewhere else on the body, using wireless charging. Maybe even implanted under the skin near the eye, although how you would charge a battery implanted in the skin, i don't know.

[@amarug]

And if it malfunctions, it will melt your eye out of the socket 😅😅 But dark jokes aside, the tech they managed to pack into that form factor, is really impressive!

[@yall_girl_eve]

Imagine it ejecting off your eyes if someone goes wrong lmao

[@jbroadway12]

Imagine it shorting and heating up

[@G3David]

Honestly like the new chips with 5nm transistors it will probably sip power and if it shorts still wouldn't heat up noticably Esp since they're working on 2nm and have made a prototype 1nm, closer between less power needed, tis route apple is going with their m series chips

[@rodrigomunera8523]

Putting a battery on your eyeball? Samsung exploding batteries come to mind. Self inflicted Insta-blindness device

[@scyfrix]

The battery is probably too small for that kind of thing. Still concerning given that it's millimeters away from your eye, but it's not going to be like a phone battery.

[@Mirandorl]

Mojo: "We can put content anywhere we want" KZbin: "Great! We can remove the 'skip ad' button at last!"

[@AmericanRustWorker3369]

I can’t wait for this to hit the shelves , imagine seeing answers to tests 😂

[@arride4590]

They will introduce a chip in your brain and you will know everything.

[@ibendover4817]

This is one of those thing which might actually force our outdated testing systems to change. Because lets be honest, most of us have access to google at our jobs and our current system has really been mostly unchanged to force enough people into underpaid or low skill jobs.

[@SlavaBagmut]

Will you'll be asked to remove it before

[@syahfiqalarby6175]

How does it perform in terms of on-eye comfort? How long is it recommended to wear at a time? How does it fare against normal contact lenses without the tech spec? I'm curious.

[@Aurich88]

I'm most curious about the accuracy of the tracking. IMUs necessarily accumulate errors, so systems that require precise tracking either supplement with better tracking (like VR) or use software to compensate (like IMU-based motion capture suits). I guess they either use software to compensate, which I'd be curious to learn more about, or just hope for the best with the IMU alone. Maybe they have a quick "recenter" option like you see with 3DoF VR headsets?

[@longinus665]

The eye is also fixed in place, so it probably just needs to track up/down and left/right rotation (and maybe torsion?). I imagine that’s much easier to track then a device, like a cellphone or VR, that can move in 6 axis.

[@edenem]

this only needs 2 axis tracking (up/down and left/right), so the tracking isn't very demanding

[@motomario8795]

As someone who suffered eye ulcers from wearing contacts for too long every day and not allowing enough time for the eyes to rest I can see this being a huge risk as people will try to wear them from the moment they wake to the moment they sleep. I got lucky and had 3 ulcers on the iris (coloured part), but still remember the doctor in the hospital telling me I could have lost up to 95% of my vision in that eye if they had been on the pupil!! To this day (almost 18 years later) the opticians still comment that the scarring is still visible during my check ups and probably will be for life. Very interesting tech, but max wear time of 8-12 hours must be adhered to, and 1-2 day rest period each week should also be followed. You only get 1 set of eyes!

[@localnemesis82]

I needed this last week for my midterms 🤣 hopefully it will be on sale before for my finals 🤫😉.

[@crypticgamma6308]

I found Mojo Lens online years ago, it's exciting to see them continuing to progress in their development. Personally, I would love to have a checklist available on the side of my vision, ready to look over and see what needs done for the day.

[@newdeathscope]

As a long time glasses wearer, I'd love to see this tech scaled up to that form

[@kyrin408]

smart glasses already exist.

[@Holgast]

Google Glass was around about 5 years ago, but was cancelled because people didn't like it (some people were attacking wearers)

[@WytBoi]

WOW Amazing Technology!

[@wjjohns04able]

Looks comfy!!

[@safso88]

Unbelievable!! I would love to get my hands on one even for testing in the healthcare sector 🔥🔥

[@jcon6734]

Yes. Unbelievable. I agree.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Why ,so you can see how long it takes till you develope cataracts , glaucoma,or brain cancer? Microwave+ heat + living tissue = Bad idea .

[@safso88]

@@j.robertsergertson4513 I agree about the hazards you have mentioned but if this is what it takes for science to progress.. 🤷🏻‍♂️😄

[@DivineStride]

As someone who wears these hard type contact lenses, I think the biggest issue will be comfort rather than if they actually have potential to actually work. Sclera lenses are pretty comfortable, but they are a pain to put on. You basically have to drown the thing to put it on. The lense itself is quite pricey as well. 9:05 oof, going through the FDA huh? So this won't even be approved in the US for another 7 to 14 years. 😔

[@PlayerXIII]

I'd be concerned about battery /temp for something resting against soft tissue. The eye doesnt have nerve endings, though I guess your eyelids would feel if something's off

[@DivineStride]

@@PlayerXIII your eyelids will feel the smallest of bumps. I hate smaller hard contacts for this reason. They hurt every time you blink. When I put my lenses on, I can feel bubbles smaller than the size of a pin-head if one gets stuck under the lens. Sclera lenses don't hurt too much when you blink, but you will always be aware of them. This awareness, coupled with the long process of putting them on and taking them off, to me, points to that this may be a technology that won't be adopted even if they work out the heat, resolution, and battery-life issues. Can't have these be leave-in either because they have to be cleaned pretty often, and if they have anti-fog coatings, you absolutely must never go into water. There's a lot of eye maintenance after you take them off too where they'll make your eyes super crusty even if you clean your lids after. This isn't normal eye sleep either. It's enough to try to seal your eyes shut. Though the maintenance removes dark circles, so that's cool.

[@PlayerXIII]

@Rayne Rivers true. That reminds me of every time ive ever had a grain of sand in my eye 😒 Honestly it feels like Silicon Valley at its finest. Tech for the sake of tech and not to solve a problem. And AR isn't the issue; i think AR glasses can find a place in some industries (like Law Enforcement). its forcing AR into a contact lens just cause "its cool".

[@DivineStride]

@@PlayerXIII we just need more houses. A lot of our issues would go away if we just had more houses.

[@blinded6502]

@@PlayerXIII It's tech to solve a problem of VR being not good enough. It's cheap (not rn though), it's light, it has foveated rendering, you can wear it on the outside, it has AR. Main issue here is display tech. It's got veeeeery long ways to go in terms of resolution, color depth, dynamic transparency, HDR and light field tech. But yeah, once that is (hopefully) polished to perfection, the only way to top this technology would be ditching displays altogether, and plugging HDMI directly to your nerves.

[@kimbeach7185]

We've used similar in active duty for years in my line of work. Because of obvious reasons I cannot disclose any more information than that.

[@itsherobrine2505]

Wow this is pretty neat

[@hazonku]

They're aiming for 2 hour run times right out the gate? That's honestly super impressive! I always figured the 1st to market would be maybe 45 minutes & then you gotta take 'em out to charge them or put on a pair of wireless charging glasses that would still take forever to charge the device.

[@tzxazrael]

"right out of the gate" is still several years away (probably). and considering the size of the display, it probably has quite a low power draw. it doesn't seem unreasonable... but it isn't likely to be cheap, either.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

He said all day so I expected 12 hours... then he said 8. But then 2... that's super short.

[@tzxazrael]

@@Nekotaku_TV i mean it's intended like a cellphone. "all day battery" means "until you get back home and can charge it again.." not like "literally taking calls and using the screen all day". i'd like better too, but 2h of "usage" seems fine as a start, probably.

[@guzu334]

This is an awesome concept. But until they can have a final product wouldn’t be better to use the tech they have now and incorporate it in some actual ar glasses since they already seem to have overcome some of the limitations that the ar glasses have now. This would make it possible to actually develop ar glasses way faster than it takes to finalise and have ready the lenses and when they finalise the lenses people can choose between having the lenses or just a pair of ar glasses. But amazing breakthroughs nonetheless!

[@JohnGottschalk]

I think a lot of their solutions are based on how close it is to your eye. Even moving it out 1-2 cm is a massive distance in terms of scale here and would change tons of the considerations from the rendering size to the eye-tracking and the gyroscopes.

[@eto38581]

How do you dissipate the heat? How do you ensure none of the components fail and start frying? What is the battery technology? I have so many questions

[@adawg3032]

This is an eye catching tech i never knew about