Mojo Vision Will Power Its Smart Contact Lens With An External Compute Pack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/03/21/mojo-vision-will-power-its-smart-contact-lens-with-an-external-compute-pack
But it’s all possible on a contact lens because of the relay: the Mojo compute pack that, Sinclair says, you’ll wear around your neck. The contact lens will offload processing tasks there to the GPU and CPU, and, thanks to its close proximity, the compute pack will stream visual content to the lens with almost no lag.
Mojo is building an operating system for this new computing platform as well, an “eye OS” perhaps in place of today’s iOS and Android. A big component of what that makes possible is in the health tech space: looking into the eye, analyzing your blood, sensing fatigue, understanding when migraines are coming, and more.
“There’s just a lot of information that can be gathered and gleaned, literally, from being on a part of the body like the eye,” Sinclair says. “And so what we see ourselves doing over time is taking our baseline medical device capabilities of helping people with low vision, and increasing that and broadening that out to a lot of other health and wellness capabilities that go way beyond the augmented reality world that we all want to see.”
There’s no definitive word on an actual commercial release, and since it’s a prescription medical product, the FDA will have to approve its safety and efficacy. Mojo is testing current prototypes, and the next generation will be ready this summer.