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  2. Ocular prosthesis - Wikipedia

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    An ocular prosthesis, artificial eye or glass eye is a type of craniofacial prosthesis that replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. The prosthesis fits over an orbital implant and under the eyelids. Though often referred to as a glass eye, the ocular prosthesis roughly takes the shape of a ...

  3. Steve Mann (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    "Digital Eye Glass," "Eye Glass," "Glass Eye," or "Glass", 1978: a device that, when worn, causes the human eye itself to effectively become both an electronic camera and a television display. [ 20 ] Comparametric equations , 1993: Mann was the first to propose and implement an algorithm to estimate a camera's response function from a plurality ...

  4. Progressive lens - Wikipedia

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    Progressive lenses are corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation. They are characterised by a gradient of increasing lens power, added to the wearer's correction for the other refractive errors. The gradient starts at the wearer's distance prescription at the top of the lens and reaches a ...

  5. Google Glass - Wikipedia

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    Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a discontinued brand of smart glasses developed by Google's X Development (formerly Google X), [9] with a mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. [1] Google Glass displays information to the wearer using a head-up display. [10] Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. [11] [12]

  6. History of glass - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [ 1 ] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was ...

  7. Preston Singletary - Wikipedia

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    Preston Singletary was born in 1963 in San Francisco, California. [2] He grew up in the Seattle -area listening to stories told by his great-grandparents, who were both full Tlingit. [3] Singletary met Dante Marioni, the son of glass artist Paul Marioni, at the age of 15 in 1979. Shortly after graduating high school, Singletary (who was ...

  8. Philip Glass - Wikipedia

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    Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, [ 10 ][ 11 ] on January 31, 1937, [ 12 ] the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. [ 13 ] His family were Latvian and Russian-Jewish emigrants. [ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ] His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. [ 17 ] In his memoir, Glass recalls that at the end of World War ...

  9. SensoMotoric Instruments - Wikipedia

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    SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI)[1] was a German provider of dedicated computer vision applications with a major focus on eye-tracking technology. SMI was founded in 1991 as a spin-off from academic and medical research at the Free University of Berlin. The company has its headquarters in Teltow near Berlin, Germany, offices in Boston ...