I hope it's possible to improve the field of view to match ordinary glasses. I also wonder if it'd be possible to change different parts of the lens to have different focal points, or change fast enough to allow for the equivalent of foveated rendering, such that you could look around at different things in your field of view and have them all appear in focus.
Hoping that it or some next-gen product comes to the US double-quick.
Only 79,200 yen surprisingly.
Initial Setup Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSqFjZfrH8
Glasses like those in TFA might be easier for drivers to adapt to, and their autofocus mechanisms might also be reusable for proper bioptic lenses, if that proves to be better for driving for one reason or another (i.e., some people actually need magnification, not just differentiated focus). I imagine if the manufacturer ever gets approval for such uses, those customers won't care too much what the glasses look like.
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1: https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/what-to-know-about-driving-...
Okay, but I wonder if there are any negative aspects. ;-)
Disclosure: Dork.
I started looking into computer glasses (short focal length) and quickly realized I’d need 2-3 pairs for all my work situations.
The daily charge could pay off if it reduces eye strain and perhaps even ends the workday sooner via quicker reading.
Would there be any pitfalls using these primarily to focus on screens of varying distances?
Progressives cost half as much but you'll have to buy a new pair on a regular basis.
And hopefully they float.
BUT, I would be much more pleased to learn about treatments that stop and revert the aging in our optical systems. Glasses feel like such a low-tech crutch for our extremely advanced optical machinery...
https://coopervision.com/contact-lenses/biofinity-multifocal
I love these things. They’ve been on the market since 2011.
Neat tech, I wonder if getting too used to it could actually lead to degredation of your sight.
These can definitely help in that case, but yeah look weird.
I appreciate the honesty in acknowledging that they didn't even spend a few hours with the glasses, but man am I sick of the low effort content on the internet today.
We're talking about a pair of $555 glasses and the author of this review straight up admits that they didn't use them for very long at all. This is about more than the weight—they're glasses! Do you get headaches after a few hours? We wouldn't know because she didn't wear them long enough to tell!
If you look at what she actually wrote, the only thing that wasn't drawn from the product description is that it wasn't hard to set up and she looked at some signage and was impressed but had a hard time with smaller text.
Is this what reviewing a product has to look like in 2024? Does anyone actually give more than 20 minutes to something before writing up a piece on it and moving on to the next thing?