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HUD in contact lenses

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After talking about diegetic and nondiegetic acts in video games, I thought how video-like controls could be incorporated into everyday life.  The nondiegetic operator act, or acts of configuration and setup, allow for the operator to often pause a video game and gain an advantage by changing weapons or displaying statistics.  These types of controls are often referred to as the HUD, or the heads up display.  However, what if a HUD was possible for real life? What if we could all see our own and other people’s statistics? This could soon become reality with the incorporation of a HUD into contact lenses.  First designed to help diabetics monitor their blood sugar, a HUD has been successfully tested on rabbits.  With this technology soon becoming available, how faded does the line between video games and reality become?