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Augmented Reality: Bionic-Eye AR Contact Lenses
We’ve all seen clips of users with virtual reality goggles bending backwards and spinning their heads to see the corners of a virtual environment that is projected all around them. But rather than goggles that totally cover and hide the view of the real world, augmented reality usually uses glasses to superimpose images and text on top of the user’s view of their actual environment. Google glass is a well known example of AR head-mounted display.
Now some companies are experimenting with using contact lenses to project AR images in front of your eye. The AR market is growing at a rate of more than 30 percent annually and the AR lens market size was valued at about $700 million in 2018.
Japanese Menicon and Mojo Vision, for example, have teamed up to create AR contact lenses that has a minute embedded screen in the lens that projects and overlays images in front of the user’s eyes. A major application of the lens is to augment and improve vision for users that have impaired vision.
Steven Sinclair, vice president of product and marketing at Mojo, said that “we’ve had to invent most everything we put in the lens. As you can imagine, we’ve invented our own display. We’ve invented our own oxygenation system, we’ve invented our own power data, we’ve invented our own ASICS (custom chips) and power management tools. We’re inventing our own algorithms for eye-tracking.”
David Hobbs, Senior Director of Product Management at Mojo Vision, said that “we are learning that vision is uniquely intimate. Everyone sees differently, so finding a way to provide the information that someone wants in the way they want it is really challenging. And different scenarios require different levels of detail and context. Fulfilling the needs of the most demanding users provides a lot of capabilities for general users as well. Take the ability to see in the dark. Going into a dark stairwell and having enhanced vision flip on would be valuable to many.”
