I recently ordered through EBD and found their try-on gadget to be useful if not exactly accurate. I like Patrick's idea for improvements. If the head photo and frames image wear brought into scale with each other it should work great.
I spent some time measuring the various frames I have laying around so I have a chance of selecting a pair that will work. Well worth the time if I save 400-500 dollars! Have not received my glasses yet, so still waiting to find out. I am a tad nervous about going this route, but as I told the lab-coated eyeglass specialist at the local shop, I can't simply materialize 500 dollars out of thin air. I already spent $95 on the eye exam. This forum is great. Goes a long way towards keeping online merchants from straying too far from the ethical, like Amazon's seller rating system. On Aug 15, 6:26 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
