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Augmented Reality As Practical 'Glasses'
- Augmented reality acts as modern 'glasses' by overlaying instructions onto work, saving seconds and improving precision.
- Tim Harford shows AR like HoloLens reduces a two-day task to two hours by guiding the technician step-by-step.
Origins Of Optical Understanding And Glasses
- Hassan ibn Al-Hatham proved vision works by light entering the eye, changing centuries of theory through experiment.
- In late 1200s northern Italy craftsmen created the first reading glasses, sparking wider public use.
Lenses Fueled Scientific Revolutions
- Spectacle innovations (concave and convex lenses) enabled microscopes and telescopes and expanded scientific discovery.
- Harford links 13th–17th century lenscraft to breakthroughs that opened new scientific worlds.