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CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by nwiswell »

bergenty wrote: post #8
Closi wrote: post #6

Call me skeptical, but looking at that photograph it looks nothing like something I want to put in my eyes. This product is way too much of a moonshot - the product is nowhere near ready for consumers, the technology doesn't appear to be there, and I can't imagine them being able to release anything other than a tech demo for many years. There is a reason that all the research in contact lenses to date has been to ma…

They have a functioning prototype. Who are you and why does your opinion matter? (I’m just sick of skepticism automatically being associated with intelligence).

I'm sympathetic to the skepticism overdose, but ultimately this is a fallacious appeal to authority. GP makes good points. Even the Google/Verily glucose contact lens didn't work out and this is an order of magnitude more complicated.

Do we really believe that the deal breaker for Google Glass was just that it made you look like a dork? Because that is the only problem the contact lens seems to solve, and it introduces a whole host of new problems. I'm not sure I feel great about putting a battery straight into my eyeball after seeing what they can do to cars and laptops when they fail.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by bergenty »

Sebguer wrote: post #9
bergenty wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a functioning prototype. Who are you and why does your opinion matter? (I’m just sick of skepticism automatically being associated with intelligence).

I have a pretty cut and dry rule of not putting anything that can catch fire directly on my eyeball.

People said the same thing about LASIK.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by bergenty »

nwiswell wrote: post #11
bergenty wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a functioning prototype. Who are you and why does your opinion matter? (I’m just sick of skepticism automatically being associated with intelligence).

I'm sympathetic to the skepticism overdose, but ultimately this is a fallacious appeal to authority. GP makes good points. Even the Google/Verily glucose contact lens didn't work out and this is an order of magnitude more complicated. Do we really believe that the deal breaker for Google Glass was just that it made you look like a dork? Because that is the only problem the contact lens seems to solve, and it introduc…

In my opinion, the contact lenses solve a whole lot of issues. Invisible to people around you, literally captures the entirety of your retina, no motion sickness, higher fidelity and did I mention completely invisible to everyone around you making uptake on this seamless.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by echelon »

bergenty wrote: post #12
Sebguer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a pretty cut and dry rule of not putting anything that can catch fire directly on my eyeball.

People said the same thing about LASIK.

LASIK is a one and done operation performed under the careful supervision of a doctor, and it has been tried and tested hundreds of thousands of times.

The probability of failure for this device is nonzero and and increases the longer you wear it. The failure modes are potentially disastrous, and there's likely no medical personnel nearby to intervene.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by nwiswell »

bergenty wrote: post #14
nwiswell wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sympathetic to the skepticism overdose, but ultimately this is a fallacious appeal to authority. GP makes good points. Even the Google/Verily glucose contact lens didn't work out and this is an order of magnitude more complicated. Do we really believe that the deal breaker for Google Glass was just that it made you look like a dork? Because that is the only problem the contact lens seems to solve, and it introduc…

In my opinion, the contact lenses solve a whole lot of issues. Invisible to people around you, literally captures the entirety of your retina, no motion sickness, higher fidelity and did I mention completely invisible to everyone around you making uptake on this seamless.

> Invisible to people around you

Not based on the PR photo. It would be very obvious to anyone who makes eye contact with you.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by roughly »

> a green monochrome MicroLED display measuring less than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter, with a resolution of 14,000 pixels per inch

So, that's 280px at the widest part of the display, and a total of ~62k pixels, right? There's a decent amount you can do with that, but I think even the demo picture in the PR shot's probably ambitious for the amount of data this can display.

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by colordrops »

pedrovhb wrote: post #13

I've been wanting for this forever (though I imagine I'll be waiting quite a bit more still). How does it deal with the eye shifting focus? Would you have to unfocus your eyes to be able to see it? That'd probably be uncomfortable.

Perhaps the focus is always like 5 feet in front of you?

Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens

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Post by ezekiel11 »

Closi wrote: post #6

Call me skeptical, but looking at that photograph it looks nothing like something I want to put in my eyes. This product is way too much of a moonshot - the product is nowhere near ready for consumers, the technology doesn't appear to be there, and I can't imagine them being able to release anything other than a tech demo for many years. There is a reason that all the research in contact lenses to date has been to ma…

Same I think its really skeptical that they have the economies of scale to produce ephemeral contact lenses that gets thrown out after a month.

Even an AR glass that looks natural and works well with changing focus is tough to pull off, it's puzzling why they would skip that and go into a almost guaranteed failure. AR contact lenses are still a good 20+ years away and even then it will be hard pressed for adoption because contact lenses aren't very popular and its obvious as to why.

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