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The thought of putting a tinted contact in my eye to change my eye color still makes me nervous... jeeze.

by tsestrich 17y ago

DannoHung 17y ago
Seriously, can we just get this in glasses instead? I don't like contacts in the first place.
- warfangle 17y ago
  Concur. With the latest advances in laser projection (see: Microvision's pico projector), it's only a matter of time before we see low-cost see-through HUD glasses. Add a small cam on the bridge for image recognition, and you've got pretty much Terminator vision. Let me expand on that a little bit, though, so I'm not misunderstood: use the cam for image recognition, sure. But instead of piping the cam image to the projector, simply use it to map the augmented reality elements (visual tags like addresses, direction-path, and so forth) directly to the projector so they line up correctly with what you actually see through the lens. Add a digital zoom pip for when you want some far-off detail up close, I suppose...
  - mattheww 17y ago
    Multi-pupil gestures? Cross your eyes to zoom out!
    - albemuth 17y ago
      Patent before Apple does!
  - randallsquared 17y ago
    Microvision has been touting those projectors for at least most of a decade now. They're so incredibly awesome, if they work and don't have major drawbacks, that I conclude they don't really work. :(
    - warfangle 17y ago
      They've shown actual products working, most notably at e.g. CES. Wonder why they haven't brought them to market yet? I'm thinking they're still rather expensive to produce.
      - randallsquared 17y ago
        If they don't fail in some obvious way (low battery life; heavy or wearing on the ears and nose; risk of damage to the eye; can't produce true color; or something), I'd happily pay thousands of dollars for one, and I can imagine many, many other people would as well, which would help them drive costs down. At first I thought they were holding out for a large contract from the DoD or something, but after this long I just assume there's something critically wrong with them (one of the above), or that the managers are idiots who can fail to profit from having warehouses of gold. :)
- clistctrl 17y ago
  yeah it seems like it would be reducing the scope of problems by orders of magnitude. The thing about heat makes me stomach hurt, maybe unlikely... but i don't want to take a chance of burning my cornea!!
elcron 17y ago
I switched to contacts from glasses a few months ago, the first few weeks were by far the worst. You get used to it (or at least I did).
- DTrejo 17y ago
  Yeah, eventually you get to the point where you can put in both contacts in about 30 seconds without a mirror. It's cool how different that is from when I first got them, when it took me as much as 10 minutes and a mirror.
  - gjm11 17y ago
    On the other hand, I could put my glasses on in less than 30 seconds without a mirror as soon as I first got them. Of course, they therefore don't give the same sense of accomplishment. (Which is also one of the forces leading people to program in, say, C++, as other people have remarked before.)
    - scott_s 17y ago
      Of course. But with contacts, you don't have anything hanging on your face, and you have better peripheral vision. For me, glasses are better for reading paper and the screen. Contacts are better for everything else. Being able to play various sports without having to choose between worrying about breaking my glasses or being seriously visually impaired is freeing. Even things like running and lifting are so much easier because I don't need to constantly adjust my glasses. And I didn't realize how nice it feels to not have something constantly on my face until I started wearing contacts. There are ups and downs to both glasses and contacts, which is why I wear both during the week and day. But implying that people wear contacts because they feel a sense of accomplishment by putting them in is foolish.
      - joezydeco 17y ago
        Swimming without goggles is difficult when wearing contacts. The lenses tend to wash out of the eye (at least for me).

The thought of putting a tinted contact in my eye to change my eye color still makes me nervous... jeeze.

DannoHung 17y ago

Seriously, can we just get this in glasses instead? I don't like contacts in the first place.

warfangle 17y ago
Concur. With the latest advances in laser projection (see: Microvision's pico projector), it's only a matter of time before we see low-cost see-through HUD glasses. Add a small cam on the bridge for image recognition, and you've got pretty much Terminator vision. Let me expand on that a little bit, though, so I'm not misunderstood: use the cam for image recognition, sure. But instead of piping the cam image to the projector, simply use it to map the augmented reality elements (visual tags like addresses, direction-path, and so forth) directly to the projector so they line up correctly with what you actually see through the lens. Add a digital zoom pip for when you want some far-off detail up close, I suppose...
- mattheww 17y ago
  Multi-pupil gestures? Cross your eyes to zoom out!
  - albemuth 17y ago
    Patent before Apple does!
- randallsquared 17y ago
  Microvision has been touting those projectors for at least most of a decade now. They're so incredibly awesome, if they work and don't have major drawbacks, that I conclude they don't really work. :(
  - warfangle 17y ago
    They've shown actual products working, most notably at e.g. CES. Wonder why they haven't brought them to market yet? I'm thinking they're still rather expensive to produce.
    - randallsquared 17y ago
      If they don't fail in some obvious way (low battery life; heavy or wearing on the ears and nose; risk of damage to the eye; can't produce true color; or something), I'd happily pay thousands of dollars for one, and I can imagine many, many other people would as well, which would help them drive costs down. At first I thought they were holding out for a large contract from the DoD or something, but after this long I just assume there's something critically wrong with them (one of the above), or that the managers are idiots who can fail to profit from having warehouses of gold. :)
clistctrl 17y ago
yeah it seems like it would be reducing the scope of problems by orders of magnitude. The thing about heat makes me stomach hurt, maybe unlikely... but i don't want to take a chance of burning my cornea!!

elcron 17y ago

I switched to contacts from glasses a few months ago, the first few weeks were by far the worst. You get used to it (or at least I did).

DTrejo 17y ago
Yeah, eventually you get to the point where you can put in both contacts in about 30 seconds without a mirror. It's cool how different that is from when I first got them, when it took me as much as 10 minutes and a mirror.
- gjm11 17y ago
  On the other hand, I could put my glasses on in less than 30 seconds without a mirror as soon as I first got them. Of course, they therefore don't give the same sense of accomplishment. (Which is also one of the forces leading people to program in, say, C++, as other people have remarked before.)
  - scott_s 17y ago
    Of course. But with contacts, you don't have anything hanging on your face, and you have better peripheral vision. For me, glasses are better for reading paper and the screen. Contacts are better for everything else. Being able to play various sports without having to choose between worrying about breaking my glasses or being seriously visually impaired is freeing. Even things like running and lifting are so much easier because I don't need to constantly adjust my glasses. And I didn't realize how nice it feels to not have something constantly on my face until I started wearing contacts. There are ups and downs to both glasses and contacts, which is why I wear both during the week and day. But implying that people wear contacts because they feel a sense of accomplishment by putting them in is foolish.
    - joezydeco 17y ago
      Swimming without goggles is difficult when wearing contacts. The lenses tend to wash out of the eye (at least for me).