IRL Glasses - Live IRL (In Real Life) and see everything except screens
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Americans spend 11 hours a day looking at screens, NY Times 2018. We need and deserve more tools to help us balance our interaction with tech and consumption of media. IRL Glasses use horizontal polarizers to block the light from LCD/LED displays found in TVs — they also work to as sunglasses to block UV light.
Great idea! Even better marketing.
Hoping to see more designs (aviators, etc). Also I think the price are a bit steep.
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Want... Totally. Just because it exists. We'll find out later if we really need it but would like to be on the beta list or preorder for this product. Not sure how I'm going to operate my phone with one though.
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Cool project, yet again Cash. Great reference (I’m 44yo so I dig it). Can’t wear the glasses though..
I don’t think I’d like to make a statement more than a day or two on frames I wouldn’t really wear daily.
Sunglasses are quite personal. I’d love to be able to buy the lenses only.
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The first second I saw this product, I thought of the movie They Live. That is so awesome that it inspired you to do this. Breed and consume! :-)
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Pros: all. Cons: none. Avaricious investors: gtfonotforyou sorry xoxo bae this is risky baebae. Philanthropists: comeeee this is the one. 🔸
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Very well put-together, and my friend Tep made an appearance as one of the people who tried on the glasses, so that was cool! That said, I have no need for this product. (Unless you can put phrases like “Obey” in as ad replacements using AR; then I’d buy it in a heartbeat.)
When I am out at a bar, I can just ignore the televisions if I’m not interested… a couple beers in and my focus becomes even more selective.
Walking through Times Square, I actually admire the audacious neon signs (although I think they are a tremendous waste of electricity in a warming world and should be turned off at the source).
And maybe it’s because I work in tech and make movies as a hobby, but I can’t imagine how boring my life would be without computer/television use. When the power goes out, I do not breathe a sigh of relief and reach for a book to read by candlelight, I just get mad.
Even if devices are largely making humans unhappy, it’s not because screens are on too much and need to blocked out; it’s because big tech companies and advertisers are hacking human psychology for profit, getting us addicted. And us being addicts, you can not reasonably expect us to resist the urge to just… take the glasses off. The siren call of checking notifications is greater than the urge to wear sunglasses, except outside on a sunny day. My guess is the only people who will successfully be able to build productive habits using these glasses are people who don’t require technology in order to be productive, or who just aren’t that addicted to technology in the first place.
I realize the product is currently quadruply overfunded, and I congratulate you on that. You certainly have found a market in Neo-Luddites, which is a popular thing to be these days with shows like “Black Mirror” waxing poetic about the ills of having the world’s collective knowledge in our pockets at all times. But I think this will end up being a novelty item; a conversation piece to be sure, but not an essential part of anyone’s wardrobe. It seems you’ve put a lot of work into this, so I am sorry if that comes off as harsh; just my honest feedback.
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Hopefully they would call me out at a reasonable price. Inexpensive
I am a massive fan of adblocking and would have paid hundreds to block the marketing shit on the streets. But these are just polarised glasses and that's it? No AI? 😞
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THEY LIVE was 1988 movie NOT 1998!
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@shillos my bad! thanks for the catch. we correctly attribute on our Kickstarter :)
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