I fully agree that most of the try-on virtual mirror systems on most the online optical stores are flawed, these systems do a bad job in representing the real try-on features as we do in the optical stores in front of the mirror.
I think a real functional try-on syetem should at least enable the buyer to have a 1:1 proportionate ratio between the eyes' PD disctance and the total width of the frame. Otherwise, even if you feel good in the virtual mirror by "wearing" certain frame, it is still quite possible that the frame's size will disappoint you upon receipt from the retailer. I have personally thought of a better system, it is very simple: upload your photo to a digitized grid, then use mouse to click the left pupil and right pupil respectively. The the system will automatically adjust your head photo to be in the 1:1 ratio with the frames ( the frames total width should also be pre-processed before uploading to the database of the website in the same digitized grid). In the current syetems offered by the online retailers, they allow you to enlarge, reduce and rotate your own photo just to make the head photo look good after "wearing" that frame. But it is without any proportionate ratio. Pity! Zenni Optical has nothing like any of these try-on software. Zennni is doing well still. The best way is just to check your old pair of eyeglasses for the correct measurements. So I say these try-on software are just ornaments, no big physical functions. On Aug 15, 11:10 am, Michael S <[email protected]> wrote: > As to why they're not better formatted or more functional, I have to > ask that question with a lot of the glasses websites I've seen. I > mean, I guess even though online sales are their main business, not > everyone's got really good web coders to build in the gadgets. > > I had a great amount of success with the EyeTry option on > goggles4u.com, even though it is a very basic one. I had a picture > with my old glasses on, but they were barely visible, so I used them > for size comparison. Sometimes I had to do odd stuff like turning my > pictures upside-down and resizing them in MSpaint before I uploaded > them, so I could get the rotation right. > > Oh, and for me at least, the color of my frames was much closer to the > photos on the site than in the EyeTry pictures. I think they literally > scan them, because the frames seemed a lot brighter than they turned > out to be. > > Still, being able to see the frames on my face helped a *lot*. The > glasses look about like they did in the picture, and I'm very happy > with them. > > EyeBuyDirect has a very nice trial feature with a lot of functionality > and pupil placement for accurate distance measurement, but I actually > had to play around with it a lot before I was satisfied. However, I > haven't ordered anything from there, so I don't know how the scans > compare with reality. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
