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Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete (hothardware.com)
submitted 1 week ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Exciting news for those enough who are 40+ and spend too much time in front of a computer screen: a Finnish startup called IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the human eye using a combination of infrared eye tracking and liquid crystal-transparent indium tin oxide glasses

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a 55 man constantly switching glasses, taking them off, losing the “right” pair, etc. please please please …

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

progressive bifocals.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.