The future of Google Glass is a contact lens that no one knows your wearing

07/26/2013 - 00:00

By Rachel Metz - 

It might take a decade or more, but projects from Imec and others could eventually bring augmented-reality contact lenses to life. 

Though it may be hard to imagine now, we may eventually be able to ditch head-worn devices like Google Glass and simply see images projected floating in front of us using contact lenses. 

Researchers at Belgian nonelectronics reseach and development center Imec and Belgium’s Ghent University are in the very early stages of developing such a device, which would bring augmented reality–the insertion of digital imagery such as virtual signs and historical markers with the real world–right to your eyeballs.

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