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Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by coldtea on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:00AM (#36597689)
What does the poor eyesight have to do with not being able to wear sunglasses?

There are prescription sunglasses for shortsightness, astigmatism, etc.

So the sunglasses-form VR would just have to cater for that. Apple's headset-form VR already does (offers the option to have prescription lenses in it).

Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by fragmede on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:21AM (#36598743)
Or just find a pair that fits over the prescription pair and wear them both.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by coldtea on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:13PM (#36607203)
Not easy to wear two pairs at the same time, and not convenient either.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by alexvoda on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:34PM (#36623414)
They probably meant clip-on sunglasses that clip to your usual glases.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by fragmede on Sunday July 09, 2023 @06:45AM (#36653361)
no, I do mean just wearing two pairs of glasses, one on top of each other.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by rtkwe on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:54AM (#36601269)
With extreme corrections it get harder to put that into anything other than flat lenses and a lot of sun glasses aren't that shape. I recently went through getting perscription safety glasses and had to get special inserts to flatten out the lens profile to make my relatively minor -3.75 to -4 prescription. I was able to get some relatively normal Oakleys in my script for sunglasses though.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by mindslight on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#36601577)
Also you generally want sunglasses to be much wider than prescription glasses, because otherwise you get too much light bleed around the sides. Making large lenses is when the thickness takes off, especially for nearsightedness where the thickness needs to be at the edge of the lens.