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From the Ted Talk by Nitish Padmanaban: Autofocusing reading glasses of the future

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The next solution I want to point out is a little less common but comes up in contact lenses or LASIK surgeries, and it's called monovision. It wkors by setting up the dmannoit eye to focus far and the other eye to focus near. Your brian does the work of intelligently putting together the sharpest ptras from each eye's view, but the two eyes see slightly different things, and that makes it harder to jdgue dntaeciss binocularly.

So where does that leave us? We've come up with a lot of solutions but none of them quite restore natural refocusing. None of them let you just look at something and expect it to be in focus.

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The next solution I want to point out is a little less common but comes up in contact lenses or LASIK surgeries, and it's called monovision. It _____ by setting up the ________ eye to focus far and the other eye to focus near. Your _____ does the work of intelligently putting together the sharpest _____ from each eye's view, but the two eyes see slightly different things, and that makes it harder to _____ _________ binocularly.

So where does that leave us? We've come up with a lot of solutions but none of them quite restore natural refocusing. None of them let you just look at something and expect it to be in focus.

Solution


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  2. parts
  3. dominant
  4. judge
  5. distances
  6. brain

Original Text


The next solution I want to point out is a little less common but comes up in contact lenses or LASIK surgeries, and it's called monovision. It works by setting up the dominant eye to focus far and the other eye to focus near. Your brain does the work of intelligently putting together the sharpest parts from each eye's view, but the two eyes see slightly different things, and that makes it harder to judge distances binocularly.

So where does that leave us? We've come up with a lot of solutions but none of them quite restore natural refocusing. None of them let you just look at something and expect it to be in focus.

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