glasses
Let an agent explain glasses and their types, relay lens and frame options and how prescriptions work from optometry sources, describe smartglasses and assistive devices, and route eye health questions to opticians and eye care professionals.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What glasses are.
Definition
Definition and types.
Definition
Definition.
- What are glasses, and how do prescription, sun, safety and smart glasses differ? definition
- Is the question about glasses in general, a lens type, a smartglasses product or an eye problem? boundary
Lenses
Lenses and prescriptions.
Lenses
Lenses.
- How do lenses correct myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia, and what does a prescription mean? definition
- Is the user asking about their own eyes, which needs an eye care professional? boundary
Choose Choosing glasses.
Options
Lens and frame options.
Options
Options.
- What lens materials, coatings and frame styles exist, and how are they chosen? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Fit
Fit and care.
Fit
Fit.
- How are glasses fitted, adjusted and cared for? action
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Smart Smartglasses.
Products
Products.
Products
Products.
- What do smartglasses such as Ray-Ban Meta and Spectacles do, and how do they differ from AR headsets? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific product? action
Assistive
Assistive smartglasses.
Assistive
Assistive.
- How do assistive smartglasses support people with visual impairment, with evidence attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits assistive technology? action
Context Regulation and history.
Regulation
Standards and privacy.
Regulation
Regulation.
- What standards govern lenses and safety eyewear, and what privacy issues do camera glasses raise, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits privacy and wearable cameras? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did glasses develop from medieval Italy to modern lenses? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of eyeglasses? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- smartglasses, Ray-Ban Stories, Lumus DK-45, Spectacles (5th gen), smartglasses for the visually impaired, Ray-Ban Meta, Meta Ray-Ban Display, Rokid Glasses, EyeTap, lorgnon, Carolina Lemke, Diff Eyewear
What it is Filled
A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the face to correct vision, protect the eyes or as fashion, with lenses ground to prescriptions for myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia, and variants including sunglasses, safety glasses, reading glasses and smartglasses that add displays, cameras and audio, such as Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Snap Spectacles and assistive smartglasses for people with visual impairment.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain glasses and their types, relay lens and frame options and how prescriptions work from optometry sources, describe smartglasses and assistive devices, and route eye health questions to opticians and eye care professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Corrective lenses
- Frame on face
- Many variants
- Emerging smart functions
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Recommend lenses or a prescription for a person in place of an eye care professional.
- Present fashion or blue-light glasses as medical treatment without evidence.
- Use camera-equipped glasses to record people without their knowledge.
Only with a human decision
- Changing a person's prescription or advising them to stop wearing prescribed glasses.
May
- Describe types of glasses and lenses and explain prescriptions in general terms.
- Remind a user to wear safety or prescription glasses for tasks that need them.
Moral aspects Filled
- Access to glasses affects education, work and safety, and is unequal worldwide.
- Smart glasses with cameras raise privacy concerns for people nearby.
Who is affected
- Wearers
- Children needing vision correction
- People near camera glasses
Owners Filled
Steward
The person who wears them; eye care professionals issue prescriptions.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1065579 - registry parent class
related
- fashion accessory - in registry terms
- refractive error - through lenses
- optometrist - after an eye test
- smartglasses - with electronics
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.glasses
- Wikidata: Q37501 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37501)
Direct properties required Filled
- people needing vision correction: over 2 billion - estimates
- common lens materials: CR-39, polycarbonate, high-index plastic list
- first eyeglasses: late 13th century period - Italy
Recognition required Filled
- Lenses in a frame worn on the face
- Prescription glasses, sunglasses, safety glasses, smartglasses such as Ray-Ban Meta and Spectacles
- Contact lenses sit on the eye; goggles seal around the eyes; VR headsets are not glasses
- Two lenses in a frame with a bridge and temples resting on the nose and ears.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain types
- relay lens and frame options
- describe smartglasses
- route eye health questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Wrong prescriptions and poorly fitted frames
- Agents giving personal eye health advice
- Privacy concerns with camera glasses
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Lens and frame standards such as ISO 8980 and ANSI Z80
- Safety eyewear standards such as EN 166 and ANSI Z87
- Sunglass UV standards
- Privacy rules affecting camera-equipped smartglasses
Context of use required Filled
- Correcting vision, eye protection, fashion and augmented functions.
- prescription glasses for myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia
- bifocals, progressives and reading glasses
- sunglasses and photochromic glasses
- safety and sports glasses
- smartglasses with cameras, audio and displays
- assistive smartglasses for the visually impaired
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q37501: glasses - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Glasses - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should smartglasses and sunglasses be separate primary entries?
- How should optometry references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific smartglasses products; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q37501/spec.json