14 DAY TRIAL // Google Glass and other augmented reality eyewear were invented with the aim of providing you with information about what you're looking at, but Innovega wants to actually enhance your sight, so it brought its contacts to CES.
That's right, if you're at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can visit Innovega's booth and check out a pair of contact lenses that enhance your vision.
The lenses will make you see much clearer at very near and very far distances. You can put a finger near your eye and see the details, for example, instead of it all getting blurry (the eye can't naturally focus on an object when it's so close).
Reading from farther off should be easier too, and you might even be able to distinguish an airplane's wings if it's not too high up.
"A lot of companies are trying to do that right now with hardware, and there are limitations: It creates a tiny field of view," an iOptik spokesperson told Mashable.
"Google Glass is the equivalent of having your smartphone about 24 inches in front of you. The iOptik system is six times the resolution and 20 times the area. It's like looking at a big TV projection, and you can see so much more."
Keep in mind, though, that the iOptik system is called a “system” because it's not just made of the contact lenses.
Sure, they can work alone, but your vision becomes even better (and you get the augmented reality information) when you add the accompanying glasses to the mix.
Said glasses have flat display panels or micro projectors that display media, apps and do pretty much everything else the Google Glass is supposed to do, only over your entire field of view instead of just the edge (like the glasses from Meta).
Innovega made the contacts separate from the glasses because it allows you to fill the contacts with a prescription. The company hopes the technology will eventually replace the smartphone. It might take a while for that to happen, but it actually might since iOptik are a lot better than other contacts we've seen, although without the ability to substitute for sunglasses (for now).
