Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  progressive bifocals.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have them. I also have a large monitor both at home and at work that the sweet spot for being able to focus is a narrow range toward the bottom. So I have a pair of single vision computer glasses that I either misplace or forget I’m still wearing when I leave the office to drive home. So I’m still constantly switching glasses. Yeah I know …. first world problems. I want my old eyes back. Getting old sucks.

    I just want a technological fix for what my eyes used to be able to do on their own.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just want a technological fix for what my eyes used to be able to do on their own.

      It’s a polymer problem. The lense stiffens with age.

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  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a pair on right now. They’re better than not seeing correctly, but only being able to focus on a computer screen with less than a third of your vertical field of view sucks. There are options, but one of the best is having more sets of glasses, which isn’t convenient or cheap. These could solve that. I’m sure Amazon will make it not worth it at some point, though.

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    • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Zenni. Have your doc write a scrip for standalone monitor glasses and have them fill that. (Had bad luck with Zenni doing progressives, but a simple reader prescription? $20)

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ive thought of it. Probably going to do sunglasses first, t’hough. Or rather second, after my single vision safety glasses.

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah Amazon will figure out a way to enshittify them for sure. Most. Likely with a subscription program for what should be totally standalone.

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