I can’t help but wonder if the benefits of e-ink are as good in the format of goggles/glasses. I’m skeptical, for sure, but it is an interesting form factor. Also a interesting decision that they work with your phone, so the glasses don’t need to have much on board storage. Would anybody here use something like this? Definitely seems ultra-niche.
I saw this a while back and never understood why you’d want a glasses format for an e-reader. I think most people interested in reading on e-ink just prefer the tablet form factor that’s very similar to an actual book.
I could see it if you wanted a little oasis for yourself. Headphones and these glasses, sit back and escape. But even so, damn that resolution is shitty. And I can get a pretty decent ereader for that much. I can’t imagine it will be successful, but I’m wrong more often than right when it comes to guessing what the market wants.
smut.
At least it functions as a nice eye mask when you fall asleep while reading your book instead of the book/e-reader falling on top of your face.
Absolutely not the target audience for this, like I’m somebody who still buys tons of physical books on top of my eReader/tablet and a big part of the appeal of an e-reader is not being too far removed from the experience of reading a physical book. Also, I cannot imagine having my vision basically blotted out by glasses to read, feel like that would give me a huge sensory freakout.
I love e-ink displays but i can’t imagine having them 1cm in front of my eyeballs and not being able to see anything else.
I’m a big fan of e-ink. I’ve got a Remarkable 2 that I use everyday. That said, e-ink is a weird display tech to use in glasses. The only reason I can think of for e-ink in this application is super low power draw. The resolution looks horrible and if the image in the article is an accurate representation of the edge lighting, my god.
This sounds like a very unpleasant way to read a book, but I’m glad it exists.
