

If you want to integrate a HUD into a visor you have to figure out a way to make it appear to be farther away than it actually is. With this it looks like those optics could be integrated into the contact lens itself. This actually looks to me like the makings of a fairly robust solution, one that won’t require tearing apart existing equipment when something goes wrong with it.

I did read the article. I think having the contact display plus the external unit might prove to be more elegant in implementation than a purpose-built integrated HUD. It doesn’t have to be magic tech to compete with reflecting a small LCD off a visor, which takes up space and probably won’t work for e.g. underwater welding.