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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 robinduckett »

ggm wrote: post #40

I'd like to see an attempt by the subject to work with an artist to draw what they experienced. I believe what we're seeing is external "takes" on what people subjectively think it looked like, not a subject-centric view. Where the virtual field projects in 3-space. How it moves with head and eye movements, and focal shifts. What apparent pixel resolution it had, not the imputed DPI, the experiental effect of the act…

Sounded like it was a static monochrome image and the 3D space stuff will come later. Do they even have an accelerometer or gyro in the device or does it pair with a phone or other device to get those readings? Are they even integrated into the software at this time. I suspect not.

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

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Post by aahortwwy »

luckystarr wrote: post #79

Lenses like this were called "Scleral lenses"[1] in Niven's 1992 novel "The California Voodoo Game". We're not there yet, but are getting closer. [1] http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1496

Scleral lenses are just contact lenses that sit on the sclera. They exist and are used for vision correction by people with certain eye conditions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleral_lens

Mojo’s lenses do have a scleral design which makes sense, it’s one of the more comfortable hard contact designs (though quite invasive).

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

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Post by iso1631 »

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 just sick of skepticism automatically being associated with intelligence

I remember being in the office on April 1st 2004 and seeing the front page of the first edition of the Evening Standard announcing how google were launching an email service to compete with hotmail which allowed upto 1GB of storage (hotmail was something like 2MB at the time).

I laughed at how a major newspaper had fallen for what was obviously an april fools joke. A day or two later I reflected that maybe I didn't know everything.

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

robinduckett wrote: post #81
ggm wrote: post #40

I'd like to see an attempt by the subject to work with an artist to draw what they experienced. I believe what we're seeing is external "takes" on what people subjectively think it looked like, not a subject-centric view. Where the virtual field projects in 3-space. How it moves with head and eye movements, and focal shifts. What apparent pixel resolution it had, not the imputed DPI, the experiental effect of the act…

Sounded like it was a static monochrome image and the 3D space stuff will come later. Do they even have an accelerometer or gyro in the device or does it pair with a phone or other device to get those readings? Are they even integrated into the software at this time. I suspect not.

From the article, 3rd and 4th paragraphs:

> It's got an ARM Core M0 processor, a 5-GHz radio capable of communicating at ultra-low latency, and enough accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers to track your eye movements with extreme precision, allowing the image to stay stable even as you move your eyes around.

> you won't need hand controls, or a smartphone, or even Meta's crazy nerve-hijacking control inputs to control it – Mojo Vision has designed a hands-free user interface controlled by your own eye movements

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

RC_ITR wrote: post #30
bergenty wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

OLEDs are hitting 1000 nits, and from your own link:

> MicroLEDs use 10% of the power of current LCD displays, and they have five to 10 times higher brightness than OLEDs

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

Closi wrote: post #76
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).

> They have a functioning prototype. Who are you and why does your opinion matter? I'm allowed to share my opinion on here, it's an internet forum dude. Besides, I don't need a PhD to work out that I don't want to put that thing on my eyeball, or that some of the claims are pretty fantastical compared to the proof given. If they put their prototype on Marques Brownlee or Linus and they said it was good then I would b…

“I don’t like it”, which is what this comment can be summarized as, is a perfectly valid opinion. But it’s quite different from

“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” which is pure speculation and dismisses the entire news as.. a lie, I guess?

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

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Post by jansan »

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).

Who are you and why does your opinion matter?

What the hell?

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