AR Glasses Will Become Invisible When Being Integrated Into Contact Lenses

Imagine that instead of a massive headset or awkward glasses, you can be confident of wearing AR glasses which are integrated into your fashionable contact lenses.

That is the thing which Mojo Vision, a Silicon Valley-based startup wants to bring to users. The firm describes the technology can work properly as an "invisible computer", ready to provide users with information at any time, anywhere and enable them to connect with each other faster, more conveniently and more versatilely.

Mojo Vision hasn't talked much about the product yet; however, the company promised to reveal more during the development of the technology and platform.

The differences between the startup's device and other companies' ones are the dimension and lenses. If HoloLens from Microsoft and the Magic Leap One headsets cover around user's head and feature big lenses, Mojo Vision's devices are more compact and still ensure the good vision for users.

According to many predictions, however, these headsets will require significant investment and time to reach its expectation. For example, having established in 2011, Magic Leap has just released its first product in August and it said that it could take another 1 or 2 years before the official version for consumers can be available.

In a 2016 conference, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook also said that the size of augmented reality devices will shrink down in the next decade. So we can expect that the familiar bulky headsets as we have right now will at least become a pair of smaller and normal-looking glasses.

Only until then can these devices become regular and really take part in our daily basis.

Despite the fact that Mojo Vision's endeavor to scale down this innovation is a great ambition and will probably take a long time to build up, the firm's prospect is not different to what other companies are advertising to us.

We have seen how Microsoft's and Magic Leap's devices apply the augmented reality technology. While these devices cost $5,000 and over $2,000 per piece, they indeed are very useful and can be used for a wide range of application, from playing virtual games to simply checking email or reading your morning newspaper.

We're moving toward a path where data from a PC will never again be shown on a plain and separate screen like on smartphone or PC,  according to Ben Bajarain from Creative Strategies.

The interest of the augmented reality technology is undeniable since it has gained billions of USD in ventures and Magic Leap only has gained more than $2 billion since it was first established.

In the interim, companies which are working to develop hardware and programming for these AR devices have invested about $427 million, a 50% jump in only this year, estimated by SuperData. According to predictions, it will continue to increase to nearly $645 million over the next year.

The tech giants, including Facebook, Samsung, HTC, Google, etc, are paying more and more attention toward augmented reality (AR), it is not the case with VR technology.

While investment in AR is increasing, that's not happening to VR as of late, also by SuperData, in the midst of decreasing sales development and difficulties game developers are facing. AR, on the other hand, has just started drawing in investors that see opportunity in utilizing the innovation to reinforce client benefit or to help fix professionals by giving them a chance to work remotely with specialists.

VR is also different from AR since it doesn't create virtual objects' overlays on the real world but rather create another reality which tricks you so well and precisely that you really believe that you are there with game characters, gunfights in the far west, rollercoaster on track or flying airplane.

Mojo Vision's yearning venture is made all significantly more intriguing by who's working for it. Mojo flaunts ex-employers from the tech business' greatest giants, including Apple, HP, Amazon, or Google. And they all are working diligently to create the product.

The AR device is expected to be released in 2020.