I sometimes wonder if the other approach is possible: Enhance our possibilities to see and process much more detail with our brains.
I know some people have better vision than regular people and I always wondered how does that even work.
Most vision problems are issues with the shape of the lens of your eye either causing distortion of the light (astigmatism), or changing the optical focal length of something at a particular distance to something not ideal, causing you to be near/far sighted, or both.
These contact lenses just insert a new series of optical lenses which cause magnification.
The other processes would be incredibly difficult as our understanding of how images are processed by the occipital lobe of the brain are limited at best. You might have some success with the cyberpunk method of a bionic which your brain can be taught to control, or genetic modification to change the density and type of receptors on your retina, or the shape of the eye.
Most of the detail in your vision is by and large hallucinated. Outside of the fovea, which is densely packed with receptors, your peripheral vision is very much stitched together from lower information (significantly lower cones, or color receptors, in particular) by the brain. The brain is already doing some serious heavy lifting.
It appears to use tonal architecture…
Hear that little guy??
I don’t see how any amount of zoom is going to see past my ultragigagigantic beer belly.
In the plus package, you get a mini drone with an other camera
With a mirror or two.
idnoclip?
Get enough zoom to change your near-clipping plane.
I would much rather have that in a pair of lightweight glasses than contacts. Put the Zoom button on the glasses arm near the temple, and Go-Go Gadget binoculars
I have worn glasses since kindergarten, I don’t get why people dislike them so much that they rather shove plastic in to their eyes than wear glasses.
Glasses are fantastic, not only do they correct your vision, they also protect your eyes against rain, wind and dust.
I agree that they are pretty great, but if you use VR headset, they are fucking annoying.
Another good point, well made!
Protection aigainst rain? Whenever there’s a light drizzle, I get waterdrops on the inside of my glasses.
Yeah also swimming and skiing are much easier with contacts.
It happens, yes, but you don’t really get rain in your eyes.
speak for yourself I think that the rain might have a personal vendetta against me because it manages to thread the needle in between the glasses and my head and then land directly in my eyeball.
I have only had that issue when my glasses are too far down on my nose
I usually wear smaller glasses so that could be part of the issue.
I am currently rocking a pair of Lindbergs glasses in a medium size, they fit fine and are super light.
Ahh, yes! But try opening an oven!
It’s kind of interesting. This really seems to be a recurring"people with glasses" -thing. I have family members with glasses who almost consequently open the oven, get their glasses fogged up, and go like; “who turned off the lights?” Personally I don’t stick my head into the steam coming out of the oven, because it stings the eyes like a motherfucker, when you aren’t wearing “safety glasses” all the time.
I have done so, many, many times, never had any issue in the last decades
Sorry, dude, i was making a joke. I appreciate that there are mitigations for this now, like anti fog lenses.
It’s fine, we all have had different experiences.
Laser surgery is also an option.
I got corrective eye surgery cause glasses were an annoyance on everyday life. Can’t see from some peripherals, weight on your nose and ears, annoying when you lay down, cuddle etc. They bump about, and fall off if you’re active (such as parkour and flipping). Also forgetting or relying on them to see was always irritating, they fog up, smudge, etc. Just generally a hassle I did not want to deal with any longer. They also break, are expensive, and potentially need multiple pairs if sensitive to sunlight, have different prescriptions, or need safety glasses.
I’m sure they’re fine for most people but they suuuuuucked in my case.
I had a friend who got corrective surgery and their eyesight got wrecked afterwards. I had several friends who got surgery and had no issues.
I depend on my eyes entirely too much to ever consider risking it, and contacts squick me out too much for me to use them. So I’ll settle for the hassle of glasses over the drawbacks of the others.
These lenses in the article in particular still aren’t for sale, despite the article being ten years old now. They do have a lot of ai-hype articles about them though.
Yeah, i hate glasses. I would much rather put my semi-permanent contacts in my eyes a couple times a month.
I have keratoconus, so unfortunately glasses aren’t an option for me. I have to wear these rigid plastic contact lenses to correct for my corneas which bulge outwards kinda like little cones.
I am sorry to hear that, I made my earlier comment without considering medical issues like this.
I should have been more clear on what I meant, sorry for the confusion.
No worries, just thought I’d provide a viewpoint as someone who has no other option than contact lenses.
Trust me, if I could I would much rather wear glasses, be far more comfortable than using the small plunger I need to use to get my lenses out.
Have you asked for a transplant?
Ah, I’m a Brit, I’ve been going through this with the NHS and while the eye clinic did mention the cross linking and possible transplant. They were very much of the opinion that it was a measure of last resort and would only consider it if my eyes got drastically worse.
My wife had a crosslink in one eye and she is really happy with it. Except for the first days (pain killers).
When you get to -7 like me the limits of physics start to apply and the closer you can get the lens to the eyeball, the less distortion you have so you can still read text and stuff which is pretty hard with glasses.
Good point, when I made the commend I forgot about medical issues like that, and only considered the issue a fashion one, sorry about that.
Contacts gives you full field of vision, and they don’t get dirty. If you are lucky you only have to take them off and on for switching once per month and can sleep with them. I am one of those, and can buy the cheapest contacts too.
In other words, always good vision, with full FOV
Peripheral vision mainly
As I noted, I have worn glasses since kindergarten, and that had never been an issue.
I switched to contacts when I got a job where I am required to wear safety glasses. Contacts + the normal plastic glasses is just easier to deal with than having to get and replace prescription safety glasses.
Depending on the safety glasses I find they fit better behind the other glasses. Unless they are ski type.
I can understand that, it is a special usecase.
Glasses are mildly inconvenient when it’s cold, somewhat inconvenient when you have to wear headgear that don’t take it into account, and very inconvenient when you have to move your head a lot or look down a lot. Anyway, I took the laser instead of the plastic bit that costs a lot and gets lost easily.
…and I keep wearing glasses anyway because the sun is still a thing that exists outside, anyway.
In what way do you find glasses inconvenient due to cold?
Sure, there used to be an issue with glasses foggin up, but with anti fog coatings it is bot an issue I have experienced in decades.
Regarding headgear, I can see that being an issue.
Last time I had to wear glasses was during the heavy phase of covid, and wearing masks caused a LOT of fogging up. I’m sure that exact same reason made a lot of people aware of proper glass treatment.
I reckon it’s the cleaning.
I’ve never used contacts because the idea of touching my eye squicks me out (even if it’s something meant to go there, just – no.), but having your eyelids do all the cleaning and never having to worry about them getting dirty or scratched while using them is probably something a lot of people appreciate. (obviously you do still have to be careful with them when they’re not in your eye, but they’re much less likely than glasses to get dirty or scratched)
Me, I’m happy just using a microfiber cloth and being careful.
But then they miss out of the amazing feeling of washing your glasses in hot water and dishsoap, and put in on clean and warm glasses radiating heat onto the eyes for a few seconds
But that’s not nearly as cool and it doesn’t make you feel like you’re chroming up
It would be pretty cool to me, and I would prefer not to attach machines to my eyeballs
At first, I thought this was the joke… But then realized it’s because catbox doesn’t load for me, for whatever reason.
I use a VPN that won’t load catbox images for some reason. If I turn it off, catbox starts working again.
On my VPN it sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. I have heard that rawdoggers have mixed experiences, too.
Reminds me of deus ex: mankind divided
Cqn I only see your penis though? It might get in the way of day to day activities…
It looks like an actually useful tech.
I’m SO DOWN FOR THIS GIMME
acog lenses
Are they variable or constant zoom? They could be LPVO contacts.
Well now I want to know more about it!
The short version is they have developed a soft robot that can contract to increase the focal point (aka “zoom”) on a lens, and they can control it with eye movements. An actual zoom contact is not available yet, and would probably require another decade of testing and prototyping before a consumer-grade model is available at a reasonable price point.
That makes sense.
Thanks.
:goes back to pushing Shadowrun books around:
This meme is like 10 years old.
And we still don’t have zoomable contacts.
That would be insanely handy in surgery. 99% of inner ear instruments look identical at first glance, but have different shaped tips that are plenty distinct under the microscope. Setting up for that shit is a pure guessing game if you have bad eyes.
And vascular… loading and keeping track of 150 suture needles that are 1/5 the size of an eyelash… yeah…
