u/dudleydidwrong

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If a representative votes for an initiative that fails by 60% in their district, then that representative is not representing their district. The voters should get to pick someone else. If a governor signs off on a ballot measure that fails by 60%, then the governor is subject to a mandatory recall vote.

Edit: To clarify, by "pulling the trigger," I am referring to making the decision to buy.

I keep coming back to Brilliant Labs Halo as being the best choice for me in my situation. Here is my situation

• I am 73 years old.
  • I never had a good memory. I don't have dramatic memory loss, but I do feel like I am missing a step every now and then. This appears to be a major use-case for the design of Halo.
  • I have mild hearing loss, but not bad enough for hearing aids. I know from experience that bone conduction works extremely well for me. Ear buds and I do not get along well. Halo uses bone conduction. From the photos, it looks like actual bone conduction.
• I have worn glasses my whole life because I used to be very nearsighted. However, after having cataract surgery, my distance vision is very good. Right now I wear progressive glasses for reading, but with very little distance correction.
• I will be traveling in late summer, and language translation would be extremely helpful. I would like verbal as well as help with reading signs. I know that I can use my phone, but it would be nice to have it in my glasses.

I would like a camera, but mainly to feed the AI. I can use my phone for the occasional photo or video. Social acceptance of cameras is problematic, and our culture is still working through those issues. Halo has an "optical sensor" instead of a camera. That may be a distinction without a difference in the minds of many people. The optical sensor on Halo looks small compared to the large circles on Meta and other camera glasses, so it might be more acceptable. If all else fails, I can carry some of those tiny stickers in my wallet and put them over the optical sensor.

The obvious problem is that they are still vaporware. Shipping may happen in the next week, but perhaps that is just the current lie. I know from experience that new tech is rarely close to the marketing hype. I would really like to have first adopters shake out the system before I jump in. I would prefer to be on the leading edge, but not on the bleeding edge. On the other hand, I am not totally risk-averse. I have fully bought into a couple of Kickstarter projects. With travel coming up, I would like to have a shake-in period with my glasses. I also have some ideas for apps I would like to code up, and it would be nice to have them working before I travel.

Other things that I find appealing is having a significant amount of AI processing on the frames themselves. I am hoping that makes the memory assist more useful. I am also hoping it would reduce latency for language translation and image recognition.

I like the open source commitment, but I realize that a lot of claims about open source turn out to not be nearly as open as I would like.

Questions

I would be interested in feedback from this community. Is there some other brand I should be considering? I have looked at G2 and Rokid. I have been following MemoMind. I find myself rejecting all of them for at least one reason. I keep ending up back at Halo. But this community knows the field better than I do. Ideas and suggestions would be welcome.

Would it be OK to order the glasses and then order custom lenses later? That would reduce the risk of having to pay for the prescription lenses up front. I have good distance vision. I just had an eye exam a week ago, and I only have a +0.25 sphere on each eye with no astigmatism. What I do need are progressive lenses for computer screens and reading. My idea is to test out the glasses first before spending money on the lenses. (For those not familiar with prescriptions, +0.25 is tiny. Most optometrists don't even recommend glasses. I mainly need the progressives. However, when pricing the lenses, I find that the progressives cost the same with or without the 0.25.