Comment on Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoWhat sort of extreme environment would exclude other ways of having a hud?
In you eye is an extreme way to do it, considering divers, pilots, drivers, astronauts etc. already wear or are surrounded by equipment this would be more easily integrated into.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you want to integrate a HUD into a visor you have to figure out a way to make it appear to be farther away than it actually is. With this it looks like those optics could be integrated into the contact lens itself. This actually looks to me like the makings of a fairly robust solution, one that won’t require tearing apart existing equipment when something goes wrong with it.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Did you read the article?
The contact lens is just the display, it still requires inductive power and external display source. Plenty to “tear apart” and fit into existing equipment.
The lens itself is not the device in its entirety. We are decades, potentially centuries from that tech that minituarized.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did read the article. There’s no need to call my literacy into question. I think having the contact display plus the external unit might prove to be more elegant in implementation than a purpose-built integrated HUD. It doesn’t have to be magic tech to compete with reflecting a small LCD off a visor.