Reviewed by a registered UK optometrist
Smart glasses are still glasses.
We review AI, AR and audio glasses the way an optician would: fit, lenses, prescription options and comfort first. Then the tech.
01 · Fit
The tech lives in the arms.
Batteries, speakers and chips add weight where normal glasses have none. We check how that sits after hours of wear, not minutes.
02 · Clarity
We look through every lens.
Display sharpness, brightness and comfort over a long session, judged by an optometrist rather than a spec sheet.
03 · Prescription
Made to work with your eyes.
Which prescriptions work, how inserts are fitted and where the limits are, from someone who dispenses lenses for a living.
Every pair. Checked by an optometrist.
Smartglassessitonyourfaceforhoursatatime.Sobeforewerecommendapair,anoptometristcheckshowtheyfit,howclearlyyouseethroughthem,andwhethertheywillworkwithyourprescription.
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Who's behind the reviews
Twenty years of fitting glasses. Now he tests the smart ones.
The Smart Glasses Store was founded by Sean Higgins, a fully registered UK optometrist with a background in eye care, prescription lenses and frame fitting across the UK and Ireland.
He reviews every model from both a technology and an optical point of view, so you know which smart glasses are genuinely useful, which suit prescription wearers, and which are worth buying.
- 20+
- years in clinical practice
- MSc
- with Distinction
- UK & IE
- clinical experience
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