DARPA Creating Virtual Reality Contact Lenses for Viewing Aerial and Sensor Data

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Rather than equipping the warfighter with bulky helmets and goggles to provide vital battlefield data, DARPA is moving forward with an innovative program where contact lenses with built-in systems would allow soldiers to focus on distant targets and overlay their vision with tactical information. According to DARPA, the goal of the effort is to provide individual soldiers with data from aerial drones and battlefield sensors in real-time — which was previously a capability challenge.

DARPA’s Soldier Centric Imaging Via Computational Cameras (SCENICC) program is leading the charge on this new effort. Innovega iOptics is the partner working with DARPA to actually develop the contact lenses.

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http://defensesystems.com/articles/2012/02/01/darpa-cyber-contact-lenses-for-warfighters.aspx

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