[HN Gopher] CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented realit... ___________________________________________________________________ CEO test-drives Mojo Vision's smart augmented reality contact lens Author : DamnInteresting Score : 28 points Date : 2022-06-29 23:32 UTC (23 hours ago) (HTM) web link (newatlas.com) (TXT) w3m dump (newatlas.com) | windexh8er wrote: | I'm sure I'm not the target market - but: I don't want this. This | technology has a use case, I'm sure. But it's not me. I want less | distraction, less way for crappy social media companies to mine | me. No thanks. | Closi wrote: | 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 make them as light and thin as possible. | | 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 - so how we think they are going to solve | that PLUS add a battery and a load of electronics and make it | something people will actually want to wear is a mystery to me. | | No doubt eventually this level of technology will come, but I | can't see it coming in the timelines required for Mojo to be a | commercial success (unless there is some other plan to | commercialise the IP). | bergenty wrote: | 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). | Sebguer wrote: | I have a pretty cut and dry rule of not putting anything that | can catch fire directly on my eyeball. | ilrwbwrkhv wrote: | Software is eating the world but the future world is made with | hardware. Companies like these are the future. | anewpersonality wrote: | tootie wrote: | Impressive. The usefulness of this kind of device is probably | completely distinct from what you'd get with anything coming from | Apple or Meta. Purely functional sight augmentation. Looks | they're going for the sight-impaired market first, but I can | imagine some uses in industry or military too. | elil17 wrote: | Industry I doubt. No problem having factory workers wear big AR | goggles. Military for sure. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-30 23:00 UTC)