Dial Vision are the adjustable glasses
that you can use without a prescription,
but let's see how they work in this review of
Dial Vision.
Alright so I am going to try the Dial
Vision glasses first. I have a very
slight distance correction that I need
and we'll see how they do with that.
Alright so if I close one eye and turn the
dial, up close that looks pretty good.
And the same for that. Well actually looks pretty good.
I mean there's a plasticy feel to it and
the field of vision is pretty narrow. It's
like this, and outside of that, there's kind of
this blurry plasticky look, but I mean
stylistically, what do you think? "That is
kind of bad." Would you go out in public
wearing these? "No."
No? I think someone was hired to design
the worst-looking glasses they could
possibly design and that person exceeded
anyone's expectations. But functionally
they do work. Now let me look in the
distance. I have these focused for up
close, and the distance I have to close one eye and
turn the dial again.
OK. Close another eye, and dial. But that is in
focus. I can see crystal clear. Again,
it's not a very wide field of vision but
it does.. it does seem to work pretty well
functionally, just not stylistically.
So now that my test is over, I'm going to have
someone else try it and see how it works for them.
Alright your took your glasses... Those are your
prescription glasses. "Right."
Well it does work. I can see everything
perfectly clear. The only problem is
the peripheral vision, it's
still very blurry regardless of where I look.
But if you look at the distance, it
is in focus, right? "Right." So I mean as
far as functionally they were pretty
well, right? "Yeah I'd say so. I'm looking everywhere
around here. They work, they're just pretty ugly.
No? You're not feeling it? "No." Not feeling it?
Here they are next to to prescription pair of glasses.
You can see how much smaller the range of vision is on
these than the prescription pair, and the
material is significantly lighter and cheaper.
I mean they have a sort of safety
goggles look to them and they're kind of...
they're kind of narrow as far as... they might
make your eyes look kind of close
together, but definitely a safety goggle
look to them. I think I'm going to be
using these because I broke my reading
glasses recently and these will
definitely do the trick.
I let my sister try Dial Vision glasses
and she loved them. She didn't care how
they looked. She said can you imagine being on a
cruise ship and losing your glasses? If you
had a pair of Dial Vision, they'd come in very
handy. So she's actually sold on Dial Vision.
How does Dial Vision work for
night driving?
Let's let's try that out. Alright here I am in
my car. I'm gonna put these Dial
Vision glasses on, adjust them for
distance, and I'm gonna take a little drive.
Maybe I shouldn't do this but I'll do it anyways.
Alright distance looks good. I don't but
here we go.
Very stylish, very stylish. OK the first
thing I'm noticing is that I
have a little bit of double vision.
Triple vision, really. I see, like on the
street lights I dont just see one of them, I
see like two others, even though they're a lot
dimmer. And in the rearview mirror the same
thing. In fact the rearview mirror I
have to turn my head to look into
without it being a little bit warped
looking. Distance-wise it looks
pretty good. I could actually see. I
could read the street signs.
I can read that stop sign up there, but
everything looks pretty clear straight
ahead except for the lights are a little
bit blurry. I mean, not blurry. The lights are a little
bit doubled.  Kind of like the
glass is a little bit smeared. But I mean I
can see. I can see even though the lights are
little bit streaky. I think "streaky" is probably
the word for it.
I would say the lights are a little bit streaky.
I can read the street signs. There's a stop sign
ahead which I can read clearly. So you
know, I think that if i were to lose my
glasses and I wanted to drive somewhere, I
wouldn't feel unsafe driving anywhere
with these. The only thing is your
peripheral vision isn't as wide as with
regular classes but it's certainly
better than the alternative.
Certainly better than not having glasses at all.
I wouldn't replace my normal
prescription glasses with these, but if my lost them, these would be
a great way to
fill in the gap until I got a new pair. I let my mom
use these Dial Vision glasses because she uses
reading glasses a lot and she said she
didn't like them as much as regular
reading glasses because regular reading
glasses have wide lenses, sometimes glass,
but they're wider and she didn't like
the lack of peripheral vision.
I tend to agree but I broke my reading
glasses so I've actually been using
these and they work pretty well in that
capacity.
Overall I think that for reading glasses
or for distance prescription glasses
they work great as a backup pair.
I wouldn't use them in place of
prescription glasses long-term.
They're also not very stylish at all.
I think they're worth twenty dollars. I really do.
Despite the ridiculous appearance,
you lose your glasses, you don't really care so much.
You know what? They actually work.
