u/danapefq

Ok so I know there must be a million of these types of posts but I could really use some community input on which options I should be looking at. These are the things I need:

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MUST HAVE:

Prescription lenses
A design that allows for all day every day wear, i.e. something that looks reasonably like normal eyeglasses and is light enough not to cause pain after a full day
Speakers and microphones good enough for both calls and music or other audio playback
Open platform. I know this one is imprecise, but specifically what I want is something where I have a reasonable degree of control over what software I use and where my data goes, and I can choose not to have my glasses connected to any external servers if I don't want them to be. The ideal would be glasses designed entirely around open source principles with the same freedom of choice as a home built pc, but of course that's just an ideal and I understand there will be a spectrum of different options and probably none of them will be perfect.
A display of any kind

HIGH PRIORITY BUT NOT REQUIRED:

All day battery life. I can handle charging every few hours but it would be a pretty big hassle and I'd way rather have something I can leave on all day.

PREFERRED:

Large fov. Even with a really basic display not having to look into one corner or something like that is really nice.
Full color binocular display. I'd be happy with even a small HUD but finding something I could actually watch movies on would be amazing
No camera. If they have one it's fine but I sometimes have to go places where cameras aren't allowed so it would be better to find ones without it to avoid having to switch glasses

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So, is there anything like this on the market right now? I've been looking and I've seen a lot of different options but it's been hard for me to figure out if any of them has exactly what I want. Also, if nothing exists right now, are there things coming out soon that I should be looking out for? I'm hoping to buy something by the end of 2026, but if nothing exists that has what I need right now I'd love to know which projects I can follow for the future.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I used to have Meta glasses but they broke after a couple of years and with everything that's come out about privacy stuff I really don't want to go in that direction again.

This is driving me a little crazy. This device shows up in at least 3 classic doctor who serials in the late 70s and early 80s (warriors gate, logopolis, and warriors of the deep) and I thought it was really lovely and wanted to try identifying what it was but no matter how hard I try I just can't seem to find it. I know it's a keypunch machine layout like the ibm 029, and I know ibm, Sperry, and a lot of other manufacturers used these black and blue keycap colors, although I can't find any device of any kind with this combination of blue alpha keys and black modifiers. It's sort of similar to a color inverted version of an old Cortron 55% keyboard, but I think it's way too massive to be just a keyboard anyway. I've put in a diagram of the layout (wrong colors of course) and pics of the ibm 029 and the Cortron for reference. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?

Need some help finding the glasses I want (or finding out whether they exist yet)

Help identifying 1970s computer/keyboard in classic doctor who?