The concept of the smart contact lenses that acts like a flexible and virtual reality-tech display is just as ubiquitous as the flying car. Likewise, the thought of flying cars the thought of AR technology-powered operations is always on the verge of going mainstream. Mojo Vision, a US-based AI technology startup has been developing a contact lens namely Mojo Lens having AR capabilities. The company has attracted $108 million in venture capital investments from Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Google’s Gradient Ventures, and Stanford’s StartX fund. The main idea behind the Mojo lenses includes the fact that the AR technology can be used to present data on displays built into glasses or a headset.
Mojo Lens prototype is supposed to offer real-time variations with lighting breakthrough. In addition, Mojo Lens is capable to zoom the images similar to a smartphone’s camera. According to the company, the lenses to have 14,000 PPI display with which the company desires to shoot display directly into fovea of the retina. The high numbers of photoreceptors are included in the lenses so that it will require less power and less light to transmit the captured images. The slickness of the Mojo Lens lets the user perform its activities as usual and displays information only in case of requirements. Mojo Lens also intends to understand the activities an individual engaged in so that it doesn’t disrupt or distract the individual. The use of the Mojo lens offers its wearer to look turn-by-turn directions while walking while replacing an unfamiliar machine part, or while talking about the important points for a presentation. And that is too without holding a device or looking down at a screen thereby allowing the people to interact with others more freely and genuinely.
The Mojo lenses were primarily developed for the people struggling with a low vision which is a steady vision loss that cannot be reversed. Mojo also wants to make lenses for people in service industries as the properties of the Mojo lenses make them superior to be used by industrial workers to access real-time information and emergency responders like fire workers. Mojo lenses allow firefighters to see the situation while carrying a shoe, axle or another piece of their equipment and have no time to take out their mobile phone. It’s too soon to say that if Mojo Lens finally brings the future that science fiction has guaranteed. After all, we’re still waiting to watch those flying cars.
