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The funny thing is, I finally got the prescription frames for Glass... about a month before I stopped wearing them. Even with their frames, the cost to buy lenses specifically for a device I may not use all the time... It's a big cost.

They'd likely be far better off figuring out how to clip Glass to existing frames, or at least ensure if they do offer specific prescription frames for Glass, that the Glass device itself can be removed from them.

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... as if prescription frames and lenses aren't already pricey enough! I got my new frames from this cute shop in the Castro and between the lenses and frames WITH insurance it was still $800. Oof.

Not sure if that was bait or not, but you can get normal (i.e. not google glass) lens + frames for less than £10 delivered in the UK from many different online retailers.

The quality is not amazing - they probably won't last more than a year or so, but then neither does a prescription.

Glasses don't need to be expensive.

Maybe things are handled a bit different in the UK than they are here. Generally getting any glasses starts with a visit to your optometrist. Very few people actually get the prescription settings of their lenses handed to them (maybe that's different in the UK?), but place their order through the same vision place as their eye doctor.

Lenses are usually a couple hundred dollars, and your frames will probably be a hundred or more as well. Usually if you have insurance with vision coverage, it helps pay for some or all of that, for a single pair, on a semi-regular basis.

That will be for nothing more than the most basic single-vision low-index lenses.

Once you start adding features like anti-reflective coatings, high index lenses, comfortable frames, and other things that are bordering on essential for constant use, the cost skyrockets.

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