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  2. Glasses - Wikipedia

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    Recumbent or prism glasses are glasses that use a prism with a 90° refraction to allow the wearer to read or view a screen while lying on their back. Developed by Liverpudlian ophthalmologist Andrew McKie Reid in the 1930s to assist people bedbound by chronic illness or spinal injury, recumbent glasses have more recently been marketed not ...

  3. Phoropter - Wikipedia

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    In 1909, Nathan Shigon of New York City invented [3] a monocular optometer with a range of +0.25 to +6.00 diopters, consisting of a mechanism where a disc of low-powered lenses advanced a second disc of higher power lenses automatically with each rotation, as in a modern phoropter.

  4. Google Glass - Wikipedia

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    The Google Glass prototype resembled standard eyeglasses with the lens replaced by a head-up display. [21] In mid-2011, Google engineered a prototype that weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg); [22] by 2013 they were lighter than the average pair of sunglasses. [1] A Glass prototype seen at Google I/O in June 2012. The product was publicly announced in ...

  5. Autorefractor - Wikipedia

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    In some offices, this process is used to provide the starting point for the ophthalmologist or optometrist in subjective refraction tests. Here, lenses are switched in and out of a phoropter and the patient is asked "which looks better" while looking at a chart.

  6. Dioptre - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the relationship between optical power in dioptres and focal length in metres. A dioptre (British spelling) or diopter (American spelling), symbol dpt (or D), is a unit of measurement with dimension of reciprocal length, equivalent to one reciprocal metre, 1 dpt = 1 m −1.

  7. Pupillary distance - Wikipedia

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    Distance PD is the separation between the visual axes of the eyes in their primary position, as the subject fixates on an infinitely distant object. [2] Near PD is the separation between the visual axes of the eyes, at the plane of the spectacle lenses, as the subject fixates on a near object at the intended working distance. [3]

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