Glasses and eyewear

No I wouldn't consider these as viable everyday wear, but given how badly nearsighted I am, they still give me much better focus than my natural vision.

I got 2 pairs of these delivered today for only $7.16 total 👍

These are currently all my glasses, contacts, and homemade monocles. Right side is prescription or pretty close to it, left side not prescription but have their uses...

These glasses were given to me by an old fella a couple years ago, and happen to be an almost perfect match for my vision!

I recently replaced the rotted earpiece tips, but I don't know where to find new nose pieces for them. See, they don't screw on like modern glasses, they have fold-in metal tabs to hold them on..

I am extremely thankful for these glasses, as they were basically a gift from a time capsule from 1988 that just works perfectly for me (plus seems much more scratch resistant than modern stuff).

Anyways, is it possible to find new nose pieces with the fold-in metal tabs?

Bonus homemade custom keyring emergency prescription lens in the photo..

The man in the video is clearly shilling for his luxury spectacle business, but he does cover a lot of prescription concepts, and I found his explanations simple and interesting.

I ordered for the first time from Zenni, after the positive comments I've read. I clicked on Progressive, I know I ordered progressive, but now, after I got delivery, my order says "bi-focal", and that's what I got, they're useless to me, the line cuts right across my keyboard in my view. Also, their "chat" function on their website doesn't work, it's a dead link. The prescription is right, however, so at least they got that right?

Fuck, $100 down the drain.

Edit: Of course, if you use their contact form to request a return, the required "what is the reason" field is completely missing:

Predictably, Zuckerberg's dystopia is starting to blight society ☹️

Great tech, terrible company.

I will never get them, and I would probably punch the first guy I talk to who refuses to take them off and stop filming me with them. But the technology is fascinating.

I've temporarily mitigated this using electronic heat shrink/thermal fit tubing. Though that works pretty well, heat shrink isn't designed for long term skin exposure with sweat and body oils, so I should replace that soon, or hopefully find a better long term solution.

The glasses themselves were made in 1988, so replacement parts are basically out of the question.

Any ideas?

A bit dated, but thorough and interesting testing methodology - as always with Project Farm.

This video is about luxury frame materials, not budget frames.

https://www.thinoptics.com/en-fi/collections/keychain

I don't own smart glasses but I am more and more interested in getting Even Realities G1 glasses because Even Realities seem to be open-source-friendly:

• They have a Github with a demo app and very complete technical details on how to communicate with the glasses via BLE.

• AugmentOS, an open-source smartglass operating system, supports those glasses.

Smart Caption is one of the free applications that come with AugmentOS. It seems to work really well!

Nice short video from Edmund Optics to visualize how lenses for astigmatism differ from uniform near- or far-sighted corrective lenses.