DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses 129
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from the seeing-through-new-eyes dept.
from the seeing-through-new-eyes dept.
gManZboy writes "Binoculars and night-vision goggles have their limits. So DARPA is doing work at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks to create wearable eye lenses with tiny, full-color displays onto which digital images can be projected, to give soldiers better situational awareness. The lenses would allow users to focus simultaneously on images that are both close up (perhaps a display) and far away (perhaps a battlefield.) Using virtual reality technologies to improve how soldiers perform on the battlefield has been a particular interest of the U.S. military for some time."
Re:Contacts (Score:4, Insightful)
I would assume its possible to shape them the same as normal contact and if they are not too thick it would be trivial to do so.
It would be a replacement.
Just wondering (Score:2, Insightful)
Are soldiers actually using contact lenses on the battlefield? I'd think they might be a bit hard to keep clean and tidy, no? Does anyone know?
To all you nitpickers: (Score:5, Insightful)
First you make it possible,
then you make it practical.
Re:Why? (Score:3, Insightful)
You laugh, but your odds of getting a reasonably good looking woman to sleep with you would go up if you groomed, dressed, and carried yourself the way you would while trying to pick up a supermodel.
If you just take the path of least resistance (ugliest girl left at last call, to continue the analogy), you'll never know what you're capable of.