Augmented reality (AR) may soon fit inside your contact lenses. Mojo Vision, a start-up out of California, revealed a prototype lens earlier this year that demonstrated the feasibility of placing a heads-up display right on our eyes — without obstructing our view of the real world.
The micro-display is the core of the technology. It's positioned directly in front of the pupil, just like regular contacts. (Mojo lenses, however, are gas-permeable and rigid, so they'll also need to be custom-fitted to your eyes.)
The display is micro but mighty, containing 14K pixels-per-inch — that's 300 times as many pixels-per-inch as your smartphone! It focuses light directly on a tiny portion of your retina in the back of the eye, which contains the majority of your nerve endings. Focusing the display on this region means the lenses require less power and less light to transmit images.
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Mojo is working on embedding other crucial electronics into the lenses.
Right now, the prototype gets most of its power and computing capabilities by communicating with a device worn on the wrist.
That's expected to change with the next iteration.
