May
27
2009
Enhance your vision with these Amazing Vuzix glasses
Posted by technogeek in Father's Day, Personal Care, Security/Safety
When I was young, we used to have advertisements on the back of the comic books or in the bubble gum wrappers. One of the ads were for X-ray glasses which was supposed to give you amazing vision.
Vuzix has designed a pair of high tech glasses that can help people with “with inoperable visual impairments improve their visual acuity and quality of life”. A compact, lightweight video magnifier, the SightMate™ LV920™ is a combination of edge detection (contrast enhancement), color blindness compensation and a zoom capability of 20x, that will enahance the reading and distance acuity of individuals and will also assist people who have “suffered a gradual loss over the entire vision field.”
Specifications
- Snap and pan function, which allows you to take a snapshot and have it displayed at 5x magnification
- Freeze mode, which captures an image and freezes it in the display
- Standard color blindness compensation and edge detection values pre-programmed
- Automatically switches to external video source when cable is connected to video input
- 2 mega-pixel camera sensor and 20x zoom capability
- Twin high-resolution 640×480 (920,000 pixels) LCD displays
- AccuTilt™ view pivots up to 15 degrees for comfortable viewing angles
- Edge/contrast detection for viewing distant objects and signs
- Color blindness compensation
- Controller designed to connect to almost all NTSC audio/video devices with video out capabilities
- 15 user control buttons for feature/function selections
- Visor weighs four ounces; controller weighs less than 12 ounces with batteries
- System power requirements: 5 volts@ 550 ma.
- Battery life: approximately four hours
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This seems to be a breakthrough device that could prove helpful to people with a variety of vision problems. Personally I have continued to endure the vision snafu I have been left with after experiencing a partial retina separation in my right eye. After several surgeries progressing from several attempts to secure the retina with lasers, a scaral buckle implant, clouded vision, an interoccular lens replacement, with a surgerical slip knicking the corner of my iris that has left it frozen, being extremely sensitive to light and also has created a tunnel vision in it losing approximately 40% of my field of vision, especially peripherally. I now am forced to live with vision that creates a double image when using both eyes and can not focus clearly on anything with my right eye. Because the vision that I have with both eyes basically provides the same field of vision as what I have only with my left eye, I was told by a sight surgeon specialist that because to the scalar buckle surgery, it’s discomfort and frequent eye socket pain, that I have 3 options. 1. Live with it as it is. 2. have the right retinal nerve snipped along with the scalar buckle removed. 3. Remove the eye and replace it with a artificial one. The last two options result in absolutely no vision in my right eye. I am now experiencing floaters in my left eye, which I believe is a direct result of the strain of having to rely so much on my left eye for my vision. So as far as I am concerned, devices my ultimately be the best solution for people with similiar vision problems as mine.
Mark, I do not know if you have sought out or received any information regarding Vuzix low vision products, but I am ready to assist you and be your connection.
Vuzix products enhance what you’re trying to see and present that enhanced image to your eye via LCD screens worn like glasses. Image enhancements include magnification, contrast, brightness, edge definition, and image reversal. Some models also include the addition of color as some people see color better than blak and white or white on black.
Vuzix understands there is no single device that will work for everyone, and that it will take a bit of time to determine if the unit is going to work for you so we have a policy of allowing 30 days for a trial period during which you can return the unit for a 100% refund.
Do take a look at our web site, and if you let me know where you live, I can tell if there’s a Vuzix dealer close by or not. I’d be glad to answer any questions and consult with you whether there is a local dealer or not.
Dick Smith
Independent Manufacturer’s Representative for Vuzix
585-350-9477
i’m very interested in the glasses. I suffer from optic nerve damage – 20/200 and 20/400. I am wondering if the glasses will help.