Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clunky bifocals?
Vs the battery, camera, and focusing mechanism these are going to need?
Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.
I’m sure there might be someone with really bad eyesight for whom these might be useful - like if the near and far prescriptions are too different to be possible, maybe - but this is inferior to the actual solution in almost every way.
And if you forget to charge your bifocals they still work the next day.
Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.
As someone with clunky bifocals, the weight of the frame (even the chunky ones) is absolutely unnoticeable compared to the weight of the lenses. You don’t get thin wireframes for the lower weight, you get it because they’re less noticeable.
Good to know. But unless you want to be giving Rivers Cuomo the autofocus ones probably aren’t your style.
Also, could there be a backlash against thick frames in the future because they might be hiding electronics
For + anyway. For high minus plastic is often the solution to conceal the thick lense border.
If it works as well as they’re claiming, that would be pretty cool. For the moment I remain skeptical.
Are these the auto-focus ones? If so, that's surprisingly slim.... If there are no other components.
I guess I’m the only one who read the article.
artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
There is at least graceful degradation: