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<old>I would really like this, if only to be able to read things close up like I used to be able to do. </old>

VR and AR stuff usually has a focal distance of 4-6 feet forward of the actual lenses, for what it's worth.

I worked for a time in an AR research lab and there are teams making good progress on adjustable focal lengths. The demo I saw three years ago was impressive.

Oh please let this be true

I'm not longsighted but my myopia has really progressed in my 40s. The Viture XR Pro has myopia dials which means that I can dial both to suit, but unfortunately the whole setup is awful for productivity, especially on Linux. Their android app is also just a "toy". And I definitely can't imagine using them for AR. Maybe their competitors, XREAL (which claim 6dof) are better here, but they don't have the myopia dials.

I'd be happy with a light, monochromatic, text-only AR glassess

Wouldn't that be sort of like what the Terminator sees?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/--jogapJmjI/hqdefault.jpg

100% Being able to write, code, and read from a large virtual terminal without a clunky visor on would be amazing.

I agree wholeheartedly. Maybe we would get a comeback for text-oriented websites too.

You should try the Vuzix Blade then.

https://www.vuzix.com/products/vuzix-blade-2-smart-glasses

> 480x853 resolution

I doubt that's enough resolution for comfortable text editing like I believe the person you are replying to is envisioning.

Back when I was working on hololens 1 stuff, I was very surprised how the bad resolution wasn’t actually much of an issue. I think since we’re always slightly moving, our brain makes some kind of natural temporal antialiasing ? And it’s not awful like VR since it’s super imposed on the real world and not a feed of it

Pixels per degree would be diluted or concentraded based on the filed of view. So you could have that resolution be a super crisp, but small region.

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Is this link correct?

I could open it.

I mean, this is awesome, obviously, but the framing is odd — this is very, very far from the SOTA, no? 30° FoV and ~30% image degradation with monochromatic images seems way less capable than the Orion Glasses. But I’m sure that’s just journal editors / academia goofballs trying to make money, and the scientists themselves know what they’re contributing. Love to see it! Cannot wait for glasses to become real so I can buy them and complain about how I never use them, like my smart watch that can talk to me.

The entire point of the article was to illustrate the capabilities of a less-bulky system than Orion. That IS the state of the art for a glasses form factor, not cartoon glasses like Orion.

Interesting point, fair enough! Orion is indeed thicker than normal glasses now that I look (https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/05_whatcomes...), tho I can't access this article for a direct weight comparison (if Meta even published that for Orion). I'm a nerd that would be thrilled with either, but I can see the qualitative difference it would make to many more casual users to have normal looking glasses.