Virtual Reality Lenses Will Change How Troops Fight On The Battlefield

Defense researchers have designed a contact lens that superimposes 3-D virtual reality directly onto your eye. The iOptiks can enhance vision too, if you’re not blessed with 20/20 sight.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the cool research arm of the DoD. It’s known as being the department of mad scientists that develop technology worthy of futuresque sci-fi movies.

Partnered with virtual eyewear company Innovega, the contact lenses have fascinating potential for battlefield operations.

Troops won’t have to rely on bulky helmet mounts, but instead can have high-resolution images and a very wide field of view projected onto a wearable lens.

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  1. Drones are already ‘absolutely normal’ in today’s wars. Personally I think next will come the ‘soldier robots’. I am sure they are already being tested. More ‘collateral damage’, more ‘friendly fire’, who cares?

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