Could be, possibly, maybe, if it works, if its reliable, we hope, if its affordable that it could change how people use glasses.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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It's almost as if this were a community where we discussed new technologies that are just emerging and haven't become well-established yet.
Reading how it works, it sounds nightmarish. I only have the myopia so I only know bifocals in theory but it sounds like they’re replacing something dependably consistent with something that’s constantly trying to guess what I want it to do. I don’t like that in any technology but I extremely don’t want it applied to an entire sense.
Put a button on the side that manually toggles between a preprogrammed close mode and far mode then I’m into it.
The thing is that with progressive bifocals, and the right size lense, this is rarely an issue, as you choose the focus you need by simply moving your eyes and head. When setup properly I rarely need to move my head at all for normal day-to-day stuff, as we naturally put what we're viewing in the center of our vision.
For example, when looking far, we tend to look upward more, so naturally use the upper portion of a lense. When on a computer or reading, we tend to look downward. Driving is a great example, we look forward and up while driving, down to see the dash, and progressives cover that with no problem.
The only time I run into "problems" is when doing really close work for an extended period, like stuff inches from my face. But for those times, I just switch to readers only while I'm doing that work. These glasses could maybe work there.
Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear."
looks dubious
I can believe that most people want something that they consider stylish. However, I'm skeptical that most people specifically want something to look like existing stuff. Clothing has shifted a lot over the years and centuries; it's not as if every person putting something on their body said "it has to look like the stuff that's come before", or present-day vision equipment would look like this:
Or this:
Wonder if this would help with eyestrain - my vision just gets slowly worse and worse every year
That's cool.