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Spatial Beats: Smart Contact Lenses & GenAI Shorts

AR Insider

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This week, we look at smart contact lenses and new AI funding and M&A. Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AR Trends

Scientists Working On Smart Contacts Powered By Human Tears

VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2023

Scientists based out of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have begun working on augmented reality (AR) contact lenses capable of displaying virtual information in the real world. This ultra-slim battery is capable of storing electricity when in contact with a saline source, which can be found in tears.

Singapore

Singapore Augmented Reality AR Technology

HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics

VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

HaptX , the San Luis Obispo, CA-based company focused on bringing realistic haptic technology to VR, has released its HaptX Gloves DK2, advanced haptic feedback gloves featuring “true-contact” haptic technology. The post HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics appeared first on VRScout.

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Haptic Wearables Training Industry

Mojo Vision: AR contact lenses are coming far sooner than you think

The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2020

One of the most mind-blowing interviews I had in recent months has been the one with Mojo Vision, the company producing AR contact lenses that got famous during CES 2020. AR contact lenses will come far sooner than we thought. If you thought that AR glasses were already advanced stuff, you have to rethink your vision of technology.

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Can AR Contact Lenses Put the Future in Focus?

AR Insider

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We're talking about AR contact lenses. The post Can AR Contact Lenses Put the Future in Focus? We hear a lot about smart glasses as the fully-actualized form of AR, as opposed to mobile AR. But what about more advanced modalities? Guest author April Miller examines the landscape. appeared first on AR Insider.

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Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think

Road to VR

JULY 5, 2022

Having not had a chance to see Mojo Vision’s latest smart contact lens for myself until recently, I’ll admit that I expected the company was still years away from having a working contact lens with more than just a simple notification light or a handful of static pixels. Image courtesy Mojo Vision. Photo by Road to VR.

Eye Tracking

Eye Tracking Guinea AR Controllers

Report: Apple Mixed Reality Headset Coming In 2022, Apple Glass In 2025, AR Contacts in 2030

VRScout

MARCH 8, 2021

This followed by a dedicated AR headset in 2025 and AR contact lenses as early as 2030. Kuo predicts that Apple will have consumer-ready AR contact lenses ready by 2030, kickstarting a new era of “invisible computing.” Image Credit: Taeyeon Kim. ” For more information on Kuo’s previous reports visit here. .

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Smart Contact Lens Company Mojo Vision Raises $22M, Pivots to Micro-LED Displays for XR & More

Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2023

Mojo Vision, a company once noted for its work on smart contact lenses, has raised $22.4 The new Series A comes months after the company was forced to put its smart contact lenses on hold , which also included a 75% downsizing in the company’s workforce.

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Mojo Vision Raises Additional $45M to Put Smart Contacts in the Eyes of Athletes

Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

Mojo Vision announced it’s raised an additional $45 million in its Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will support further development of Mojo Lens , its early stage smart contact lens. The post Mojo Vision Raises Additional $45M to Put Smart Contacts in the Eyes of Athletes appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR Contact Lenses due in 2026, says XPANCEO at MWC 2024

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This week, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, emerging XR display innovators XPANCEO showcased four smart contact lens prototypes, including one with deep XR features. Of its prototypes, the firm aims to build ultra-thin, unintrusive XR contact lenses to replace bulkier AR/VR/VR devices.

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Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Puts An AR Display Directly On Your Eyeball

VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2020

Earlier today, augmented reality start-up Mojo Vision announced its development of the Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens that promises to revolutionize the way we interact with the world and each other. . The post Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Puts An AR Display Directly On Your Eyeball appeared first on VRScout.

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Facebook Researchers Show ‘Reverse Passthrough’ VR Prototype for Eye-contact Outside the Headset

Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

The goal is to allow eye-contact between the headset wearer and others in an effort to make it less awkward while wearing a headset and communicating with someone in the same room. The post Facebook Researchers Show ‘Reverse Passthrough’ VR Prototype for Eye-contact Outside the Headset appeared first on Road to VR.

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AR contact lenses are far away, but a new research is paving their way

The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

Some days ago, I found an article on Futurism talking about a university in France able to create the “first smart contact lens” The article also talked about Augmented Reality and the interest of the DARPA for using this product. I’ve read that your team has just developed an AR contact lens! Hello Tony.

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Mojo Vision Raises an Additional $51M to Fund Smart Contact Lens Development

Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2020

Mojo Vision announced it has raised more than $51 million in a Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will be used for further development on Mojo Lens, its smart contact lens. SEE ALSO Mojo is Making Contacts Smarter with Its Incredibly Tiny Microdisplay.

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Blink Showcases Contact Lens For Ocular Communications

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2024

Blink Energy has unveiled an impressive milestone in ocular communications technology, sharing a look at its BlinkIT signalling contact lens. Blink shared on LinkedIn: Excited to share our latest milestone, achieving a working platform providing power and communication capabilities to a signaling contact lens!

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id Software In Contact With Team Beef About Official Release Of Their Quest Ports

Upload VR

JANUARY 11, 2024

id Software has been in direct contact with modding group Team Beef on the subject of potentially releasing their VR ports on the Quest Store. In response, Carmack wrote , "I got people at id Software playing the VR ports, and they are now in direct contact with @TeamBeefVR, so I am hopeful!"

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Firewall Ultra Studio First Contact Shuts Down At Christmas

Upload VR

DECEMBER 22, 2023

First Contact Entertainment is shutting down just four months after launching a multiplayer VR shooter game exclusively for Sony's PlayStation VR2 headset. Firewall Ultra followed 2018's Firewall: Zero Hour from First Contact, both made exclusively for Sony's PlayStation-based VR headsets.

Sony

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Mojo is Making Contacts Smarter with Its Incredibly Tiny Microdisplay

Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2020

Mojo Vision is a company that’s working to produce smart contact lenses, which it hopes in the near future will let users have a non-obtrusive display without needing to wear a pair of smart glasses. The post Mojo is Making Contacts Smarter with Its Incredibly Tiny Microdisplay appeared first on Road to VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Mojo Vision CEO has worn a working smart contact lens. Drew Perkins, the CEO of Mojo Vision, the company working on smart contact lenses, has fulfilled the dream he had envisioned 7 years ago: he finally wore in his eyes a functioning smart contact lens. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision). Image by Unity Technologies).

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Google And Samsung May Soon Usher In The Smart Contact Lens Market

Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Smart contact lenses are still a novel concept, but a new market analysis report claims that'll change soon, and we may have Google and Samsung to thank.

Samsung

Samsung Google Technology

Mojo Vision Cancels AR Contact Lens

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 12, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) wearables innovator Mojo Vision officially cancelled its immersive contact lens this Wednesday. The firm is stopping research and development (R&D) into its AR contact lens prototype due to a lack of capital. Drew Perkins even trialled the firm’s AR contact lens in July last year.

AR

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Smart Contact Lenses Are Closer Than You Think

Slashgear

JULY 25, 2022

There are trials underway for Mojo Vision's prototype smart contact lens, technology which may one day make phones obsolete.

Technology

Mojo Vision Is Ceasing Work On Its Smart Contact Lens

Upload VR

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mojo Vision is ceasing work on its Mojo Lens contact lens. It integrated a tiny MicroLED display, ARM processor, IMU (accelerometer and gyroscope), wireless radio, and “microbattery” into a contact lens frame. The sci-fi-sounding device was first announced in early 2020.

Technology

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How To Delete Multiple Contacts On iPhone At Once

Slashgear

APRIL 27, 2022

The iPhone requires users to manually delete contacts one at a time, but there's a secret to get around that limitation and it involves iCloud.

How To

How To Technology

This Week In XR: Rivals Back Anthropic AI With Billions, AR Contact Lens Is Back, AI Comics

Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The $40 M Invested in AR Contacts, and the $5 M In Comics are dwarfed by the cash needs of an AI company.

AR

AR Technology

Between Realities VR Podcast ft Craig Douglass of Contact CI

Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In this week's episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host CEO of Contact CI, Craig Douglass. Craig explains the principles behind Contact CI's haptic glove, Maestro EP, and the company's vision for the future of haptics.

Haptic

Haptic Hand tracking Technology

Contact-less Retail Experience

ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

link] Contact-less Retail Experience was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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Oculus Reveals Tutorial Touch App ‘First Contact’, Launches Spacewarp

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The VR specialist today announced Oculus First Contact , another experience that will be shipping with Touch on December 6th. We’ve reached out to Oculus to confirm that First Contact will indeed be free for all Touch customers. Oculus has the answer.

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NTU Singapore Unveils Saline-Powered Smart Contact Plans

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

Scientists and researchers from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have embarked on a mission to create a pair of smart contacts powered by human tears. The prototypical augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will offer real-time, heads-up display (HUD) information to users.

Singapore

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Your Contact Lenses Can Now Seep Antihistamines Into Your Eyes, If You Want

GizModo VR

MARCH 30, 2022

The future of eye care looks poised to involve specialized contact lenses filled with medicine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of contact that releases an antihistamine to help prevent itchy eyes from allergies for up to 12 hours. Similar treatments for other eye diseases may be on the way… Read more.

VR Dev First Contact Raises $5 Million To Create AAA Games For Headsets

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Santa Monica-based First Contact Entertainment has this week raised $5 million to work on AAA VR Games. First Contact was formed this past summer by members of several recognized developers like Starbreeze, Blizzard, Treyarch and Infinity Ward. It certainly sounds like First Contact is a developer to look out for going forward.

Gaming

Gaming Industry Entertainment Groups

The Future of Vision: Augmented reality contact lenses will make you bionic

Digital Trends

MARCH 2, 2021

Smart contact lenses are finally becoming a reality. And the future of this intriguing technology is nothing like what you might expect. .

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Technology Wearables Virtual Reality

NASA Has Lost Contact With the Moon-Bound CAPSTONE Probe

GizModo VR

JULY 5, 2022

The space agency is working to reestablish contact with the satellite and possibly delay its upcoming trajectory correction maneuver. The CAPSTONE pathfinder mission to the Moon is experiencing a problem, as the probe stopped communicating with ground controllers shortly after yesterday’s successful deployment. Read more.

Controllers

Controllers Technology

Contact Lens-Removing Robot Requires More Faith in Technology Than I'll Ever Have

GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Contact lenses offer a more comfortable alternative to wearing glasses for those with vision issues, but that’s assuming you can handle/endure the process of putting them in and taking them out. A Florida man has invented a robot that can insert and remove contact lenses for someone who can’t, although seeing it in… Read more.

Florida

Florida Technology

California Set to Launch Apple and Google-Powered Contact Tracing App

GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that the Golden State would become the 18th to launch an official Covid-19 contact tracing app powered by technology pioneered by Apple and Google. Read more.

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‘Tears of Joy: Scientists Crafting Smart Contacts Fueled By Human Emotion’

VRGames

AUGUST 27, 2023

NTU Singapore scientists have developed a revolutionary new technology – AR contact lenses powered by human tears. These ultra-slim, biocompatible batteries require no toxic material or metal electrodes, allowing for more comfort while wearing them.

Singapore

Singapore AR Technology

Mojo Vision CEO Trials AR Contact Lens

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 4, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) hardware startup Mojo Vision presented a significant advancement in its smart contact lens. Drew Perkins testing the smart contact lens device PHOTO: Mojo Vision. The contact lens also has a built-in 5GHz radio and ARM Core M0 processor to deliver AR content to a user.

AR

AR Eye Tracking Wearables Augmented Reality

Cyborg-style smart contact lenses promise to correct vision problems

Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

An artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens features a tunable lens aperture, built-in RF antenna, and integrated, low-power LCD screen.

Bill Clinton, CNN, and Mad Max: the strange legacy of Jodie Foster’s Contact

Digital Trends

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's been 25 years since Contact premiered, and the behind-the-scenes story of its development and subsequent lawsuits might be more intriguing than the film.

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What’s Happening to the AR Smart Glass and Contacts Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Additionally, the next stage of AR innovation: smart contact lenses, seems to be little more than a distant dream. Let’s look at the AR smart glasses and contacts industry as it stands today. However, whether we’ll get a set of smart contact lenses in the next few years is difficult to determine.

Industry

Industry AR Wearables Strategy

FaceTime for iOS 13 Uses ARKit to Help Callers Pretend They Are Maintaining Eye Contact

Next Reality AR

JULY 3, 2019

You can now add feigning eye contact to the list of ways that augmented reality is improving our lives. In the official release of iOS 13 this fall, FaceTime will gain a new feature called Attention Capture, which corrects the users' eye gaze to appear as though they are maintaining eye contact with parties on the other end of the video call.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Apple AR Video

Mojo Vision, Adidas Address AR Contact Lenses at IGS 2022 Europe

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

On Friday, Nathan Pettyjohn, CEO of the Immerse Growth Network and the (Virtual and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA), hosted a panel on the potential benefits of using AR smart contact lenses during sports as well as emerging safety concerns. That’s the part we want to solve is during moment” Understanding User Saftey.

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First Contact Reveals Firewall Ultra, A Zero Hour Follow-Up For PSVR 2

Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

First Contact Entertainment revealed its next title today – Firewall Ultra. Releasing exclusively for PSVR 2 , First Contact describes the game as an ‘evolution’ of the franchise, following on from Firewall Zero Hour.

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Finally, WhatsApp will let you hide 'last seen' status from specific contacts

Mashable VR

APRIL 17, 2022

WhatsApp is beta testing a feature to hide a user's 'last seen' status from certain contacts, according to WhatsApp beta news blog WABetaInfo. There's also an option to set 'last seen' to your contacts only, but you can't choose specific people to be privy to it. The new feature will add "My Contacts Except."

Spatial Beats: Smart Contact Lenses & GenAI Shorts

Scientists Working On Smart Contacts Powered By Human Tears

Trending Sources

HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics

Mojo Vision: AR contact lenses are coming far sooner than you think

Can AR Contact Lenses Put the Future in Focus?

Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think

Report: Apple Mixed Reality Headset Coming In 2022, Apple Glass In 2025, AR Contacts in 2030

Smart Contact Lens Company Mojo Vision Raises $22M, Pivots to Micro-LED Displays for XR & More

Mojo Vision Raises Additional $45M to Put Smart Contacts in the Eyes of Athletes

XR Contact Lenses due in 2026, says XPANCEO at MWC 2024

Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Puts An AR Display Directly On Your Eyeball

Facebook Researchers Show ‘Reverse Passthrough’ VR Prototype for Eye-contact Outside the Headset

AR contact lenses are far away, but a new research is paving their way

Mojo Vision Raises an Additional $51M to Fund Smart Contact Lens Development

Blink Showcases Contact Lens For Ocular Communications

id Software In Contact With Team Beef About Official Release Of Their Quest Ports

Firewall Ultra Studio First Contact Shuts Down At Christmas

Mojo is Making Contacts Smarter with Its Incredibly Tiny Microdisplay

The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

Google And Samsung May Soon Usher In The Smart Contact Lens Market

Mojo Vision Cancels AR Contact Lens

Smart Contact Lenses Are Closer Than You Think

Mojo Vision Is Ceasing Work On Its Smart Contact Lens

How To Delete Multiple Contacts On iPhone At Once

This Week In XR: Rivals Back Anthropic AI With Billions, AR Contact Lens Is Back, AI Comics

Between Realities VR Podcast ft Craig Douglass of Contact CI

Contact-less Retail Experience

Oculus Reveals Tutorial Touch App ‘First Contact’, Launches Spacewarp

NTU Singapore Unveils Saline-Powered Smart Contact Plans

Your Contact Lenses Can Now Seep Antihistamines Into Your Eyes, If You Want

VR Dev First Contact Raises $5 Million To Create AAA Games For Headsets

The Future of Vision: Augmented reality contact lenses will make you bionic

NASA Has Lost Contact With the Moon-Bound CAPSTONE Probe

Contact Lens-Removing Robot Requires More Faith in Technology Than I'll Ever Have

California Set to Launch Apple and Google-Powered Contact Tracing App

‘Tears of Joy: Scientists Crafting Smart Contacts Fueled By Human Emotion’

Mojo Vision CEO Trials AR Contact Lens

Cyborg-style smart contact lenses promise to correct vision problems

Bill Clinton, CNN, and Mad Max: the strange legacy of Jodie Foster’s Contact

What’s Happening to the AR Smart Glass and Contacts Industry?

FaceTime for iOS 13 Uses ARKit to Help Callers Pretend They Are Maintaining Eye Contact

Mojo Vision, Adidas Address AR Contact Lenses at IGS 2022 Europe

First Contact Reveals Firewall Ultra, A Zero Hour Follow-Up For PSVR 2

Finally, WhatsApp will let you hide 'last seen' status from specific contacts

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