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SEEING THE FUTURE WITH AUGMENTED REALITY

AUGMENTED REALITY IN A CONTACT LENS

Introduction What is Augmented reality?

Pictorial representation AR on a Contact Lenses. Working of AR on Contact Lenses.

Pictorial representation Possibilities of AR Contact Lens. Challenge of to Overcome.

TOPIC OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTIONAugmented reality is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.  It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality. By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one. 

Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world

WHAT IS AUGMENTED REALITY?

Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality.

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION

AR BY A CONTACT LENS

Display of AR imaging on contact lenses are the basic concept. Its under improvement and development by different multinational IT monsters. These bionic contact lenses might contain the elements for display embedded into the lens including integrated circuitry, LEDs and an antenna for wireless communication. Another version of contact lenses, in development for the U.S. Military, is designed to function with AR spectacles, allowing soldiers to focus on close-to-the-eye AR images on the spectacles and distant real world objects at the same time. At the Augmented World Expo Conference, a futuristic video named Sight featuring the potential of having augmented reality through contact lenses received the best futuristic augmented reality video award.

WORKING OF AR ON CONTACT LENSES

In this lens concept, an antenna at the periphery collects incoming RF energy from a separate portable transmitter. Power-conversion circuitry provides DC power to other parts of the system and sends instructions to the display control circuit. The display, at the center, might consist of LEDs, which would turn on and off, or LCD-like elements, whose transparency would be modulated by the control circuit. An energy-storage module, perhaps a large capacitor, is connected to a solar cell, which could provide a boost to the lens. A biosensor samples the surface of the cornea, performs an analysis, and provides data to the telecommunication module to transmit to an external computer.

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION

POSSIBILITIES OF AR CONTACT LENS

These lenses have enormous potential in almost every aspect of our lives. These lenses are straight out of the science fiction movies, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in the Terminator movie, this could be our future. This type of system is called Augmented Reality, or AR for short.These lenses surf the web and deliver email right before your very eyes, your interface would be a holographic monitor you use in mid air. The holographic capabilities of these lenses alone have huge potential.

For example, you could try clothes on every morning with out getting undressed you would just use the virtual screen to try clothes on yourself to see what looks good. Video games would and could go to an entirely different level of game play.

The holographic could display driving information such as speed and gas levels all without your eyes ever leaving the road.

POSSIBILITIES OF AR CONTACT LENS

The lenses could help us stay healthy too. They could monitor our health by linking to biosensors worn in the body or using biomarkers from your eyes. For example, the lenses could monitor cholesterol, sodium, potassium levels, blood sugar levels and other such potential variables. They could tell you how many calories you are about to consume or possibly what vital nutrients you are missing from your diet. Maybe even tell you how your exercise regiment is going. The lenses could help patients with glaucoma with built-in computer technology to monitor pressure inside the eyes. Imagine a contact lens that can help the hearing impaired by translating speech into captions in real-time, or offering visual cues from a navigation system or possibly producing graphics to move to the beat of music allowing the hearing impaired to experience moods from music. the lenses could still be used for correction of eyesight at the same time as well.

Health

POSSIBILITIES OF AR CONTACT LENS

However, there is potential in the retail side of life as well. Imagine walking down the street and admiring someone’s shirt, the possibility of knowing where to buy the shirt and how much the shirt cost, is not far fetched. You could also try clothes on without stepping into a dressing room and know what the outfit would look like

Day To Day Life

We have reached a state where it is no longer a question if it will happen because it is already there. Now it is rather the question of how quickly we can set up a complete process and structure to support Augmented Reality in the same way as we are doing it for the existing technical documentation.To get back to the original question: YES Augmented Reality is the future of technical documentation because the market has the tools and will demand the content for it.

CHALLENGE OF TO OVERCOME Building the lenses was a challenge because materials that are safe for use in the body, such as the flexible organic materials used in contact lenses, are delicate. Manufacturing electrical circuits, however, involves inorganic materials, scorching temperatures and toxic chemicals. Researchers built the circuits from layers of metal only a few nanometers thick, about one thousandth the width of a human hair, and constructed light-emitting diodes one third of a millimeter across. They then sprinkled the grayish powder of electrical components onto a sheet of flexible plastic. The shape of each tiny component dictates which piece it can attach to, a micro-fabrication technique known as self-assembly. Capillary forces — the same type of forces that make water move up a plant’s roots, and that cause the edge of a glass of water to curve upward — pull the pieces into position.

Even though the researchers have made giant leaps to making this type of technology a reality, there is still a long way to go. The device only works if it’s within centimeters of the wireless battery and the microcircuit, one-hundredth the width of a human hair, can’t quite emit enough light. Solar powered lenses may be possible according to current research.

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