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.
Yeah, and the risks of LASIK are widely under-reported!
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
#22This feels like tech skipping a step - I'm not sure how building a contact lens is possible, but building say, a pair of standard looking glasses is not.
I think this is right overall. Making an AR headset requires serious compute and power and there’s no way that will fit in a contact lens anytime soon. This demo is a HUD, which is much easier and already solved by glasses. So I think this tech is way early for practical use-cases.
On the other hand, AR glasses have some challenges of their own. Allowing the user to see through the lens and focus their eyes on the world around them while seamlessly displaying on top of it is a major engineering challenge which is mostly unsolved. Setting the distance between the display and the eye to zero and locking the display to the eye position makes this easier in several ways. It would solve the field of view issue. I just don’t see how you pull it off without having your eye connected to a puck by a fiber optic cable. I think you need several generations of improvements in semiconductor and display tech to fit everything in the contact lens, even if it’s just a wireless receiver and display for an image that’s rendered somewhere else. But it’s good that there’s people working on it to push the tech on the right direction.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#23Earlier 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.
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Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#24Call 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 be…
> AR contact lenses are still a good 20+ years away
And it’s things like this that will let us get there in that timeframe.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#25Call 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).
Whatever tech could make these AR contacts comfortable to wear all day would be worth a fortune for plain old prescription contacts.
I’m willing, he’ll I’d be happy and excited, to be proven wrong here, but it seems to me that the balance of probability tips in favour of them having something half-baked and non-viable, and my eyes are definitely too precious to risk them on a bad v1 product
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#26How does he blink? From the picture it looks like his eyelid would have to be stretched out over the device with his fingers.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#27> 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.
The fact they didn't give an actual pixel count makes me think they mean 14,000 per square inch, which with these measurements means four pixels.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#28How does he blink? From the picture it looks like his eyelid would have to be stretched out over the device with his fingers.
There is no blinking in the future.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#29Call 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…
> Companies can't really make a standard contact lens that lasts more than a month without compromising on comfort and it sliding around your eyeball
My mom’s worn the same (hard) contacts for decades.
Re: CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens
#30Earlier 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.
Ok, let's diligence this, so our skepticism isn't unfounded:
>Invisible to people around you.
Except for the not-built body-wearable computer that will eventually run the things [0]
> literally captures the entirety of your retina
This prototype covers >no motion sickness, higher fidelity
I think you're comparing this to headsets, but I can tell you from [1] that this is not 'high-fidelity' by any means (for one, it's monochrome and each pixel is binary on or off)
Another problem to think about:
A sunny day is c. 30k nits. From the looks of the photo, this display is maybe 100 nits. IT will be nearly impossible to see the display outdoors.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVAMRe3kmA - [1] https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/30/mojo-vision-reveals-the-w...