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Mojo Vision develops apps for Augmented Reality Contact Lens

Last year, startup Mojo Vision unveiled an early prototype of a contact lens that contains everything it needs to augment reality—an image sensor, display, motion sensors and wireless radios all safe and comfortable to tuck into your eye.

Lately, the company’s engineers are “charging hard on development” says Steve Sinclair, Mojo Vision’s senior vice president of product and marketing. While most of Mojo Vision’s hundred employees are working at home, the pandemic only minimally affected the company’s ability to use its laboratories and clean room facilities as needed. About a dozen of the company’s employees have worn early prototypes of its lenses. read more

Mojo Vision Develops Augmented Reality Screen on a Contact Lens

Mojo Vision is revealing a smart contact lens with a tiny built-in display that lets you view augmented reality images on a screen.

Steve Sinclair, senior vice president of marketing at Mojo Vision, calls it Invisible Computing, a platform that overlays information on what you see in the real world — without requiring you to wear a huge gadget on your head.

“We have figured out how to take that world’s most dense display,” Sinclair said. “We have a medical-grade contact lens, supply power, and data. And eventually we will get to the point where we’ve got all sorts of cool gadgets to show.” read more

First FDA Approved Contact Lens to Slow Childhood Nearsightedness Coming in March

The FDA has approved its first contact lens designed to effectively slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, starting in ages 8 to 12.

CooperVision’s MiSight lens is a soft, single-use and disposable contact, made to be discarded at the end of each day.

A three-year clinical study showed the lens was able to slow the elongation of the eyeball from front to back by an average of 52% across annual check-ups—one of the main causes of myopia, as incoming images begin to come into focus at a point in front of the retina, instead of precisely on it. read more

Engineers Develop Glowing Contact Lens That Could Prevent Blindness

Engineers in the US have developed a glowing contact lens technology that they claim could help prevent blindness in millions of people with diabetes.

Developed by a team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the innovative technology, which uses similar technology to luminous wrist-watches designed to emit low levels of light into the wearers eye at night, reducing the oxygen demands of the eye, and limiting the impact of diabetic retinopathy, a condition often associated with diabetes in its more advanced stages. read more

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