Today it is practically impossible to remember a time before the screens, but also to imagine a future without them is not easy: to try it will be EyeJets, a startup that uses innovative technology.
After a long and illustrious career in the Israeli defense industry, the 2017 artificial intelligence consultant Edu Strul has started a new initiative with optics expert Dr. Joshua Gur. EyeJets was first created from a military perspective, then it was also redesigned from a civil and commercial perspective, to "attack" the smart glasses market.
But don't smart glasses already exist?
In the beginning it was Google Glass. Then, gradually, many Big Tech have tried the path of putting computers directly on our nose. The latest in chronological order? The glasses of Facebook / Rayban and ThinkReality A3 by Lenovo.
The product, though. There is no product that changes inertia. Something that does what the iPhone did to telephony. A device, in short, that everyone wears.
Why should EyeJets do it?
Because it adopts a completely different approach, according to its CEO. Instead of projecting digital data from computers or smartphones onto the lenses of glasses, they project it directly into the retina of the eye.
To tell the truth, this too has already been tested (with quite a few problems, because the eye moves a lot and the images arrive blurry). Unlike other companies, however, EyeJets technology combines eye tracking: does your eye move? The projection "corrects" in real time, adapting to the movement.
In other words, I read from the official site of the startup, the images projected on the retina by these smart glasses will always be in the center of the field of view. And this can make a difference.
How things will change
Next month EyeJets will present its technology to the world at a virtual and augmented reality convention in Portugal.
Since then, everything will depend on the lenders. And, ça va sans dire, from the medical performance of the whole device. Of course, being able to project finally stable images into our eyes is an incredible turnaround, but it's always about shooting lasers on the retina.
After these steps, however, I am sure that this technology will totally change the way we see the world.
