What They Say
Mojo Vision, which is developing contact lens AR displays (Mojo Vision Developing NanoLEDs) said that it has developed an ‘advanced prototype’ although nobody is said to have worn one, yet. The Information’s Reality Check newsletter had a demo of the prototype ‘mounted on a stick’. A cable fed power and data to the lens, but the motion tracking used to control the interface was handled by the components embedded in the contact lens.
“The content displayed was crisp and the menus were easy to navigate”.
Venture Beat reported that the firm has been working on software for different use cases. Venture Beat reported that the initial target market is for people with low vision, as it will be a medically approved device that can help partially blind people see things better like road signs.
Steve Sinclair, Mojo’s senior VP of product and marketing, said he believes it’s “a matter of days or weeks” before Mojo will be able to perform similar tests wirelessly, running the lenses off of the embedded batteries while passing data via 5GHz radio.
What We Think
The firm seems to be making real progress in a really, really challenging task. I think this technology has a sense to me of the Arthur C. Clarke quote that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I love to write about it and report on it, but I don’t think I’d invest in it!! (BR)
