Author yy
Source Gigabyte Editorial
A few days ago, during April Fool's Day, many tech companies showed off some of their ingenious operations, and the one that made the most impression on gaming enthusiasts was ASUS announcing the world's first gaming contact lenses, the ROG Smart Glasses. --ROG Smart Glasses!
According to ROG, these smart glasses have built-in eye and head trackers that allow gamers to immerse themselves in simulated games like racing and flying.
Coupled with the ROG Control Center, instead of pressing the alt key, players can adjust key system settings directly with their eyes. This allows you to focus on the task at hand, while supporting the setting of up to ten custom shortcuts.
This allows gamers to focus on the task at hand, while supporting the setting of up to ten custom shortcuts.
And with the Ultron Center, it's possible to change the color and shape of the eyes. the ROG Smart Glasses will also set up a dedicated app store for AR games for gamers.
What's more, ROG Smart Glasses are certified low-blue light, automatically adjusting to ambient light conditions to filter out harmful rays, reduce eye fatigue, and deliver better gaming performance for a full day of play.
Last but not least, ROG Smart Glasses come with a quick charging case and a specially designed cleaning solution that can charge and clean the lenses in less than an hour, making them a must-have for lazy people.
As an April Fool's Day project, this unwarranted product has fooled a lot of people - after all, who wouldn't want to have an immersive "gaming" device like this?
Although ASUS gaming contact lenses do not exist, but our real life, AR contact lenses have been developed for a long time, and the product heat is equally hot.
And that brings us to Mojo Vision, who pioneered the world's first invisible AR glasses, dubbed "AR pupils".
In the beginning, Mojo Vison founder and CEO Drew Perkins chose to set up this company because he suffered from cataracts in 2012, in order to save his eyesight, from the company's inception in 2015, Mojo Vison began the research and development of smart contact lenses, and after the project was kept a secret for three years, the company began to develop smart contact lenses in 2019. 2019, Mojo Vison officially announced the demo video of this project through the media, and in 2020, the initial generation of AR contact lenses were announced to the public.
Then at the CES 2021 online show, the new one AR contact lens developed by Mojo Vision was stunning and won the Last Gadget Standing award in the CES Best New Product contest by an overwhelming margin.
Recently, Mojo Vision has been at it again, showing off the latest generation of 2022 prototypes.
On March 30, the US company Mojo Vision said in a post on the company's website that "Mojo Vision has achieved a major development milestone for smart contact lenses."
According to the official introduction, the new prototype of Mojo Lens integrates a number of industry-first features, including the world's smallest and densest dynamic display, low-latency communication technology, and eye-control UI interface.
Unlike back in 2020, when AR contact lenses were still primarily geared towards the medical field to help people with eye diseases improve their vision due to personal reasons of the company's founders, today's new Mojo Lens is positioned to be more diversified, becoming a full-fledged innovation in smart wearables with features geared towards a more general user base.
Not to mention, the official demo was a real sci-fi blockbuster, with a futuristic feel.
From the outside, the new generation of Mojo Lens is similar to the contact lenses we use in our daily lives, except that it's surrounded by a variety of chips, so the overall design is very detailed and well thought out.
Taking apart the main components of Mojo Lens, there's a lot going on inside.
First of all, this MicroLED microdisplay set is the smallest and densest dynamic display ever made, with a diameter of only 0.48 millimeters, which displays text, images, video, and other information in the eye's field of view through miniature optics that allow the user to read it.
But the new prototype didn't make much of a breakthrough on the display from the previous generation, and it's still the same hexagonal monochrome MicroLED display, with all its images still in green monochrome, and with screen pixels of about 250x250px, which is quite a retro look and feel.
But beyond the display, the Mojo Vision hardware has a lot of big upgrades, such as the first successful placement of motion-sensing accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers inside a contact lens to track the wearer's gaze movements and become smarter.
At the same time, the new generation of Mojo Lens has also realized the ability to transmit data back and forth through a wireless connection to the 5GHz band, although it is not yet possible to connect it directly to a cell phone, but the company is working on a solution that ensures that the wireless connection will not be interfered with by the outside world.
Incidentally, the new Mojo Lens also uses an ARM M0 processor to handle encrypted data running in and out of the lens, as well as power management.
Its power supply has also been upgraded from its predecessor, which had unstable wireless power, to the Mojo Vison, which puts a full onboard battery system directly into the contact lens for a smooth power supply.
During the demo of the new Mojo Vision, as soon as it was put on, the exposed electronic components seemed to be covered by the iris of the eye, so you couldn't see any obvious sense of foreign objects, and the surface looked as natural as if you had contacts.
So in summary, the new generation of Mojo Vision upgrades are mainly in the three major aspects of communication, eye tracking and power system functions, while at the same time in the specific experience, it has become more humanized.
Mojo Lens was designed from the start with display, communication, eye tracking, and motion tracking features, and this new model also showcases the latest OS and UX components.
Simply place the glasses Mojo Lens in front of your eyes, and immediately the main interface is presented, along with a marker for eye calibration so that your pupil picture can be aligned with the display.
And when the eye hovers and gazes at one of the icons, it can be triggered to activate the app, which then closes when the user looks away.
And when the head starts to move, the screen in front of you can follow along, tracking in real time without losing focus.
From the demo footage published by Mojo Vision, Mojo Lens displays images that can be manipulated and displayed in apps such as sports data, cycling routes, flight information, teleprompters, and more.
It can even do all the things that existing AI does - information search, face recognition, real-time translation, and more.
In the meantime, Mojo Vision says it will eventually create a software development kit (SDK) that more people can use to create their own apps, and the program will get richer in the future.
The Mojo Lens also has the ability to enhance vision, helping to correct the wearer's vision by improving the sharpness and contrast of the image, and the R&D team hopes to restore some of the vision of the visually impaired with this contact lens.
However, the CEO of Mojo Vision said that Mojo Lens is still in the very early stages, and will try to apply the glasses to specific athletes and visually impaired people first, and that there is still a long way to go before it finally enters the general consumer market.
And the new Mojo Vison model is still only an optimized version of the first generation for 2019.
It's expected that Mojo Vison will also bring a more refined smart contact lens around 2023, with a screen that is expected to be replaced with a full-color display, so you can look forward to that a little bit.
As Mojo Vison's products have grown in popularity, some of the pitfalls from professionals have begun to emerge.
For example, Matthew Feng, a foreign ophthalmologist, said publicly that he agreed with the high-tech advantages of Mojo Vison, but there are dangers, because wearing ordinary contact lenses for more than 8 hours will lead to corneal oxygen deprivation, and Mojo Lens has a built-in miniature sensing and computing equipment, oxygen transmission will be less, and because its design is too
Feng, meanwhile, was skeptical of Mojo Vision's attempts to solve problems like myopia with retinal projection. Some retinal damage is irreversible, he said, and even the best imaging may not be able to fix it.
After reading the concerns of professionals, it's not too dangerous to look at the brainstorming ideas of netizens, such as whether there will be forced pop-up ads when they're being used, and then they'll have to close their eyes.
Even some netizens were more alarmed, saying "Imagine wearing smart contact lenses when the battery suddenly exploded...".
Of course, the response was even funnier: "That's why you have two eyes. If you lose one, you have the other."
Of course, the responses were even funnier.
Let's get back to reality. Back in August last year, Mojo Vison said that its product had passed toxicology testing, however, until now, the FDA hadn't given consumer-grade approval, and since the project's development in December 2019, Mojo Vison was only certified a few moments ago to allow the company's employees to try out their product, so it's a good thing that the company has been able to get the product on its own. it's going to take some courage to bring it along in case it does go into mass production.
In any case, while technological innovation brings convenience to humanity, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that safety is the most basic requirement, and I believe that as Mojo Vison continues to evolve, there's hope that it will eventually be able to create a truly reassuring AR contact lens, don't you think?