Editing Augmented reality (section)

===Contact lenses===
Contact lenses that display AR imaging are in development. These [[bionic contact lens]]es might contain the elements for display embedded into the lens including integrated circuitry, LEDs and an antenna for wireless communication.

The first contact lens display was patented in 1999 by Steve Mann and was intended to work in combination with AR spectacles, but the project was abandoned,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Full Page Reload|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/profile-innovega|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|date=10 April 2013|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2280022/en|title=Contact lens for the display of information such as text, graphics, or pictures}}</ref> then 11 years later in 2010–2011.<ref>Greenemeier, Larry. [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/23/computerized-contact-lenses-could-enable-in-eye-augmented-reality/ Computerized Contact Lenses Could Enable In-Eye Augmented Reality]. ''[[Scientific American]]'', 23 November 2011.</ref><ref>Yoneda, Yuka. [http://inhabitat.com/solar-powered-augmented-contact-lenses-cover-your-eye-with-100s-of-leds/ Solar Powered Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with 100s of LEDs]. ''inhabitat'', 17 March 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Kenneth |title=Contact Lenses Can Display Your Text Messages |url=http://mashable.com/2012/12/08/contact-lenses-text-messages/|work=Mashable.com |date=8 December 2012 |access-date=13 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=O'Neil |first=Lauren |title=LCD contact lenses could display text messages in your eye |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/lcd-contact-lenses-could-display-text-messages-in-your-eye.html |publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=12 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211075000/http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/lcd-contact-lenses-could-display-text-messages-in-your-eye.html |archive-date=11 December 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref>Anthony, Sebastian. [http://www.extremetech.com/computing/126043-us-military-developing-multi-focus-augmented-reality-contact-lenses US military developing multi-focus augmented reality contact lenses]. ''[[ExtremeTech]]'', 13 April 2012.</ref><ref>Bernstein, Joseph. [http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-05/2012-invention-awards-augmented-reality-contact-lenses 2012 Invention Awards: Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses] ''Popular Science'', 5 June 2012.</ref>

At CES 2013, a company called Innovega also unveiled similar contact lenses that required being combined with AR glasses to work.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Innovega combines glasses and contact lenses for an unusual take on augmented reality|url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/10/3863550/innovega-augmented-reality-glasses-contacts-hands-on|last=Robertson|first=Adi|date=2013-01-10|website=The Verge|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref>

The first publicly unveiled working prototype of an AR contact lens not requiring the use of glasses in conjunction was developed by Mojo Vision and announced and shown off at CES 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Full Page Reload|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-in-a-contact-lens-its-the-real-deal|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|date=16 January 2020|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mojo Vision's AR contact lenses are very cool, but many questions remain|url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/16/mojo-visions-ar-contact-lenses-are-very-cool-but-many-questions-remain/|website=TechCrunch|date=16 January 2020 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mojo Vision is developing AR contact lenses|url=https://techcrunch.com/video/mojo-vision-is-developing-ar-contact-lenses/|website=TechCrunch|date=16 January 2020 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref>