The world of wearables is ever expanding and Samsung is working on numerous such products from smart shoes that track your weight and other health parameters to smart headbands for athletes which track the stress levels and the injury impact level they suffer while playing. We now receive information that Samsung is working on a smart contact lenses that offer its user the power of augmented reality.
The company is already heavily into virtual reality inform of Gear VR headset and is now dipping its toes into augmented reality. This contact lenses will reportedly have a camera, display unit, built in antennas and a slew of other sensors.
This smart contact lenses will work in sync with a smartphone through a companion app. The commands that you want to execute will be given in form of a blink and the paired phone will do the rest. One cool feature is that you will be able to view your photos and videos through the lenses.
The augmented reality device will help the user in various scenarios by laying out objects, graphics, and information in their real world vision.
This is similar to google glass but in a more personalized manner. Samsung is pushing into the augmented reality space but it has to face Microsoft. The Redmond tech company is preparing its HoloLens, an AR headset that is in works for years and will let you play virtual games in the real world.
Google is also secretly preparing the next version of the google glass and is soon to unveil the developer version.
Samsung has applied for a patent way back in 2014 but has been recently granted.
