AR Contact Lenses Went From Science Fiction To Reality
According To A Recent Report By The New York Post, Apple May Plan To Develop A Smart Contact Lens That Works With Apple Mobile Phones And Other Devices. Users Can Make Phone Calls, Browse The Web And Play Games While Contacting The Real World. Some Industry Analysts Predict That Apple Is Expected To Release This Smart Contact Lens Product Around 2030.
two Companies Have Claimed To Have Developed Prototype Ar Contact Lenses. Inwith, An American Intelligent Biological Hardware Company, Demonstrated Its Soft Contact Lenses At The 2022 Consumer Electronics Show In Las Vegas. The Appearance Of This Ar Contact Lens Is Similar To The Soft Contact Lens That Is Worn Daily. It Is Made Of Hydrogel Material, Thin And Elastic. The Lens Is Embedded With A Circle Of Gold Wires And Microelectronic Elements.
michael Hayes, Ceo Of The Company, Said In An Interview With The Media That The Glasses Can Be Paired With Smart Phones And Other External Devices, And Users Can See The Virtual Information Superimposed On The Real World In Real Time. "for Example, What Is The Speed Limit On This Road? Which Direction Should We Go? How Far Is It From The Next Exit?"
the Company Said It Plans To Obtain A Breakthrough Equipment License From The Us Food And Drug Administration This Year And Put The Glasses On The Market After The Approval. The Company Has Applied For Key Patents For Integrating Solid Components And Circuits Into Hydrogel Materials, As Well As New Technologies Such As Smart Lens Cases That Capture Kinetic Energy To Power Contact Lenses Through Blinking And Charge Lenses With Liquid In Lens Cases.
mojo Vision, A Start-up Company Also Located In California, Usa, Chose The Hard Contact Lens Route. In 2020, This Enterprise Announced The First Intelligent Contact Lens Mojo Lens, A Hard Lens Embedded With A Display Screen. It Is Reported That The Micro Led (light Emitting Diode) Display Screen Used In The Glasses Is Only The Size Of Sand Particles And Is Placed In The Center Of The Pupil. It Is The Core Of The Glasses. The Display Screen Will Directly Focus The Light On The Retina Behind The Eyeball, So That People Can Obtain The Vision Of Superimposing Electronic Information On The Real World. For Example, It Can Display Route Information On The Ski Track, Display The Pace During Running Or Display Key Points During Speech.
Multiple Application Scenarios
what Are The Advantages Of Ar Contact Lenses Compared With Traditional Ar External Frame Glasses? Mojo Said That Ar Contact Lenses Can Provide Real-time Information Prompts During Users' Activities, Avoid Interrupting Users' Attention Or Activities, And Free People From Handheld Devices Or External Screens.
in The Future, Ar Contact Lenses May Be Mainly Used In Scenes That Are Not Suitable For Wearing Frame Glasses, Which Can Give Attention To Beauty. For Example, In Sports And Travel, It Can Avoid The Risk Of Frame Glasses Falling Due To Strenuous Activities, And Can Also Display Health Data Such As Heart Rate, Pulse And Blood Pressure In Real Time, As Well As Sports Data Such As Pace, Route And Calorie Consumption.
mojo Said That This Kind Of Glasses Will First Help The Visually Impaired In The Future. The Glasses Can Adjust The Contrast And Light In Real Time To Help Realize A Wider Range Of Visual Perception And Night Vision Functions. In Addition, They Will Also Have A Zoom Function, Which Can Be Used To Carefully Observe Facial Expressions.
inwith Believes That The First Application Of Ar Contact Lenses Will Be The "adjustable Vision" And "enhanced Vision" Realized By Mobile Devices Such As Smartphones. For Example, It Can Provide Better Vision For Patients With Myopia Or Hyperopia, And Can Also Be Applied To The Latest Augmented Reality Or Mixed Reality Vision Applications. The Company Said In The Press Release That The Ultimate Application Will Be To Realize Fully Immersive "meta Universe" Vision, Providing Users With A Super Lightweight And Physically Invisible Way To Shuttle Back And Forth Between Real World Vision And "meta Universe" Vision.
Diverse Technical Challenges
at Present, The Above Two Companies Have Only Shown Samples, And Have Not Demonstrated Specific Technical Details In Detail. Some Interviewed Experts In The Industry Told Reporters That Ar Contact Lenses Have Not Been Officially Launched In The World, And The Technology Has Not Matured So Quickly, Which Is Far From Landing.
some Industry Experts Believe That Since Ar Contact Lenses Are Wireless Devices, Power Supply Is A Big Challenge. The Electric Energy With Unstable Voltage Obtained By Blinking May Not Be Effectively Utilized. Even If The Solid-state Battery Is Used Like Mojo, The Long-term Endurance Will Be In Question. In Addition, Due To The Amount Of Calculation Involved In Certain Information Processing, It Is Also Difficult For The Cpu (central Processing Unit) Of The Display Processor To Be Completely Embedded In The Contact Lens. For Example, Mojo Simply Put The Cpu And Gpu (graphics Processor) In The Neck Band Module, And The Contact Lens Is Only Used As A Display Screen.
cost, Selling Price And Health And Safety Issues Also Need To Be Considered. This Contact Lens Needs To Contact Human Eyes For A Long Time, And Its Hygiene And Safety Cannot Be Underestimated. Some Netizens Worry About The Comfort Of The Product. Some Netizens Raised The Risk Of Technology Abuse, For Example, They Were Worried That There Were Hidden Dangers Of Illegal Photographing In The Camera Embedded In The Contact Lens.
hayes Believes That At The Beginning, Some People Will Be Slightly Worried Or Opposed, But At Present, Many Electronic Devices Implanted In The Human Body Have Been Accepted By People, Such As Electronic Heart Pacemakers. "when People Really Wear Ar Contact Lenses, They Will Experience Different Visual Worlds And Gradually Get Used To Them.".
