Medical supply company EPGL, known for developing "smart" contact lens technology, plans to develop iOS-compatible apps for augmented reality applications.
Company President Michael Hayes said that, in collaboration with Apple, it will use the intellectual property to develop iOS applications to project an image on a contact lens oriented around the perimeter of a contact lens for use in augmented reality applications ( AR).Requires low power, can be adjusted quickly and can be incorporated into the elastic material of a contact lens.
The projected images will be clear and, in addition, the lenses can use a prism to redirect the image on the retina, in case part of the user's vision is absent or limited due to stroke.
Incorporating augmented reality technology into a contact lens will avoid stigmatizing users with devices such as the bulkier Google Glass, which has been banned in some areas.
EPGL holds patents, and has developed technologies for contact lens charging and storage, contact lens circuit integration, auto-focus mechanisms for contacts, and optical sensors for electronic contact lenses.
"AR can be really great, we have been and continue to invest a lot in this. We are high on AR for the long run, we think there's great things for customers and a great commercial opportunity. So we're investing."
I think AR is extremely interesting and sort of a core technology," It's something we're doing a lot of things on behind that curtain that we talked about."
