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 👍

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    You’re not out of the loop, there’s nothing that suggests these do anything.

    My best guess is because they are opaque lenses with tiny holes, so no photo filter or IR light will be able to “map” your eye region or anything behind the glasses. If that is indeed the answer, then these are not sufficient enough to actually do anything of value if not coupled with other face coverings. They will only serve to fuck up your vision and depth-perception (unless you have myopia, apparently)

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      You wanna poke any guesses at exactly how I learned my natural vision is about 20/500 stupid nearsighted? Eye doctors use these as a basic test for children, to quickly gauge whether further testing needs to be done and a prescription issued.

      I was 7 when I first got to see anything even close to clearly, through pinhole glasses not much different than these. And they were cheap, so why not get a couple pairs right?

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        I’m not questioning the use of them medically, I’m questioning the idea that these do anything for AI.

        They still cause depth-perception problems, regardless. Even you commented yourself you wouldn’t wear them while driving.

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          They don’t cause any depth perception problems you silly goose, I’m wearing them right now as I type these messages on my tablet.

          But they do cause just enough distortion to make the characters on the screen look slightly duplicated in random places until I shift my head a little bit, I apparently have to spend a little longer making sure I type and spell everything correctly.

          Honestly, if I absolutely had to, given the only options of no glasses or pinhole glasses, I’d choose pinhole glasses for driving if it were an absolute emergency, but again I seriously don’t recommend that.

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            you have posted this in a community called Fuck AI. this is why everyone is trying to work out what your post has to do with anti-AI sentiment.

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              My bad, I also posted under Glasses and Eyewear, I’m getting comments from both communities right now.

              The glasses block significant facial features used for facial recognition.