[soulofmischief]

Fascinating. Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution, but the second incarnation of this product ought to be a real game-changer.

Also, I noted this passage:

even with a very odd prescription (one eye is near-sighted, and one far-sighted) the default corrective lenses Sightful had available worked well.

I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can be a real nuisance in certain cases. Nice to see this specifically addressed :)

[rbanffy]

> Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution,

I wonder if a normal camera can be used to track head movements with a better AR set.

It'd be fun to add multiple extra screens around the main one on my laptop just by plugging in my glasses into the USB-C port.

> I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder...

Before both my eyes went shortsighted I had it - it always felt like having one eye optimized for short distances and one for long ones, with the brain making the switch automatically like a smartphone stitches together an image using various lenses of various focal lengths.

Still having different degrees of shortsightedness (a bit on the left and almost none on the right) is mildly annoying.

[Murrawhip]

I have this. As a kid, it made catching a ball pretty difficult as my dominant eye would switch right as the ball gets to me.

I like to think that's the reason, anyway.

[aviditas]

There are dozens of us! My glasses and contact RXs always got a comment. Mine are on the extreme side in difference too, plus astigmatism in one eye and not the other. When contacts were finally available for me, I had to relearn how to live in a 3d space.

I'm definitely going to follow the development of this as attention to edge cases and details like this are a good indicator of quality. It definitely has beta version battery life which I'd hope they'd address in a v2 as well.

[Twirrim]

> I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can be a real nuisance in certain cases. Nice to see this specifically addressed :)

I had this as a child, meant that it wasn't clear I had vision issues for a bit. I could see things clearly.

While my far-sighted became near-sighted eventually, it remains a dominant eye for me.

[xupybd]

My wife is near-sighted in one eye, and far-sighted in the other.

[RRWagner]

When I had cataract surgery I specifically requested and gat this - one eye for distances and the other at about 18" for computer use. I very much like it. Adaptation felt immediate.. while I was waiting for glasses to arrive I felt like I didn't need them. Now I use glasses for distance and computer work but I sort of feel like I'm just being a little lazy. ;)