Embed the sand-sized Micro LED screen into the contact lens to create a smart contact lens with AR function, presenting a 200-inch large screen in front of your eyes. This seemingly futuristic segment is not a sci-fi movie plot. Being brought into reality by a company.
This American company called Mojo Vision was established in 2015. The company's CEO Drew Perkins (Drew Perkins) has co-founded a number of companies. In 2011, Drew Perkins suffered from cataract. He was treated by implanting an intraocular lens, but he still lost part of his vision.
This also prompted Drew Perkins to think about whether optical technology can be used to correct vision, and to seek the possibility of non-surgical "bionic eyeball" technology.
In 2015, Drew Perkins successfully verified the idea with the company's CTO Mike Wiemer and chief scientist Michael Deering, and received $750,000 in seed round investment. Subsequently, they also recruited dozens of first team members from companies such as Apple, Amazon, HP, and Google.
Mojo Vision calls the AR contact lens they developed as Mojo Lens. The core device of Mojo Lens is a 0.48mm, 14000 PPI single green Micro LED micro display. This sand-sized micro-display is placed in the pupil of the human eye. Through retinal projection technology, light is concentrated and projected on the central fovea on the retina, which is a very small special area in the middle of the retina, but the visual information obtained by the brain But 50% comes from here. Because of this, the microdisplay used by Mojo Lens does not require high brightness, so it can save power.
In addition, Mojo Lens also integrates a thin-film biosafety battery to power the system, integrates a motion sensor to achieve eye tracking, and integrates a very low-power image sensor for computer vision and scene detection.
You may be curious about how it feels to wear such a pair of glasses, but unfortunately, Mojo Lens is still in the development stage and needs to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before being marketed.
According to the introduction, Mojo Lens uses medical-grade RGP hard contact lens material, which has high oxygen permeability and can alleviate the discomfort of wearing for a long time. The glasses are based on the scleral lens design, which has a larger diameter than traditional contact lenses, and No contact with the cornea, better comfort.
Mojo Vision shows a number of possible future application scenarios, such as displaying data information in sports, displaying each other's personal information in interpersonal communication, displaying map navigation information in daily life, and so on.
However, the primary application of Mojo Lens in the early days was to assist vision, such as allowing visually impaired people to see objects more clearly.
Mojo Vision has a beautiful vision. They hope that through Mojo Lens, the visually impaired can see a clear world again, and it will bring a bonus to people's ability to see the world. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul. Although Mojo Vision must overcome many difficulties before the product is launched, they have obviously wiped a corner of the window.
