VR Smart Contact Lens
Meet the people using VR, AR and smart contact lenses to help the blind see These technologies will help the visually impaired, some sooner than you might think But beyond video games, a handful of companies are currently working on specific ways to use VR and AR to help the visually impaired and partially sighted to see. In fact, New York-based RaayonNova is already building what many considered the "end game" to all of this: smart contact lenses. "There are a number of issues with the existing technologies; they are not discreet," says Aleksandr Shtukater, the founder of RaayonNova. "They're visible to others and the system's control is driven by gestures." Each lens has an embedded display directly over the eye's cornea, and would include features to help the visually impaired, such an embedded display that uses colour to direct the wearer, or to help magnify street signs or warn the person when they're near danger. "We believe that...