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foxus.com – everyone gets glasses

I got laser eye surgery when I was 41. I sat with the doctor and she said 'you wont be able to use a computer for 2 days'. I said, well what the fuck am I meant to do. She said to look out the window and listen to music. So I was sitting there with my newly corrected eyes and looking out at the view and turning over a record every 22 minutes, and I was thinking expansively and I thought fuck me. I've been wearing glasses every day for 25 years, and now I don't have to. Glasses were so normal to me. And I realised that you could build glasses that people would wear all the time, completely normally, without thinking about it. In the same way that everyone walks around with headphones to block out the noise of cars and trucks and buses and construction and voices on the radio, and advertisements, and crazy people on the street. You could wear glasses that blocked all that out too. You just do passthrough and delete all the shit that annoys you. I built the first version using a stereoscopic usb camera with an OTG protocol for the quest headset. It sold pretty well. I still get requests to sell the last 50 units that are in a box in the office somewhere. The new version is way better. You'll love the new version. Just as soon as I can get ChatGPT to drive KiCad correctly and complete my JLCPCB order. Any day now.