I’m assuming that all UNSC personnel get some sort of eye surgery to correct near/farsightedness, based on the lack of glasses I have seen ingame.
Does most of the human population in Halo get that luxury?
Marines do get them.
Not so sure about civilians, after all, wasn’t Halsey wearing glasses in some books and in Homecoming?
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> Not so sure about civilians, after all, wasn’t Halsey wearing glasses in some books and in Homecoming?
Actually never read the books. I didn’t know that Hasley wore glasses (though that could be explained that she read really small print or the fact she was a scientist, so that she would need the help of specialized glasses.)
Does anyone know about civilians? It’s been bugging me for a while.
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Just checked, Halsey does wear glasses (check the book “Ghosts of Onyx” on page 303)
Also, there is that marine from the Halo 2 Anniversary Terminal number 15, the one called “Unyielding”, he has glasses as well!
And then there is this civilian from Halo Reach wearing glasses, dunno if those are sunglasses, AR glasses, or normal glasses though.
I’m afraid that means only few people from the military get the surgery as an obligatory part of enlistment…
> Just checked, Halsey does wear glasses (check the book “Ghosts of Onyx” on page 303)
> Also, there is that marine from the Halo 2 Anniversary Terminal number 15, the one called “Unyielding”, he has glasses as well!
> And then there is this civilian from Halo Reach wearing glasses, dunno if those are sunglasses, AR glasses, or normal glasses though.
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> I’m afraid that means only few people from the military get the surgery as an obligatory part of enlistment…
Well then. Thanks for the info Francis.
If marines don’t always get eye correction surgery, then I wander what the requirements are.
Perhaps some are rushed through training and don’t always have the equipment to correct surgery? I guess this would be more prevalent on the Outer Colony militias, but perhaps a full-blown emergency would give even Earth and Inner colonies sub-par treatment.
And I guess eye correction is for those who can afford it and get to a facility that does this, at least for civilians and some military people not in combat roles.
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> Perhaps some are rushed through training and don’t always have the equipment to correct surgery? I guess this would be more prevalent on the Outer Colony militias, but perhaps a full-blown emergency would give even Earth and Inner colonies sub-par treatment.
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> And I guess eye correction is for those who can afford it and get to a facility that does this, at least for civilians and some military people not in combat roles.
The marine I mentioned was the one in charge of overlooking a satellite by Saturn in case any fleet dared go for Earth… Not only he was making a living watching over the skies 24/7, but he also was one of those looking over the Sol system and Earth!
I’d think somebody in that position should have an edge to help keep the system safe…
> The marine I mentioned was the one in charge of overlooking a satellite by Saturn in case any fleet dared go for Earth… Not only he was making a living watching over the skies 24/7, but he also was one of those looking over the Sol system and Earth!
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Specialized glasses, perhaps, like I said earlier? I’m pretty sure staring out into the blankness of space would require a slightly different kind of eyesight, probably more farsighted than useful for everyday activities. That way, you have the edge of looking for small blips in space while retaining 20-20 for off-duty.
Pretty sure humans who were glasses mostly do so because they like them, didn’t halsey’s glasses basically act as screens sort of?
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> Pretty sure humans who were glasses mostly do so because they like them, didn’t halsey’s glasses basically act as screens sort of?
To be honest, I never thought of them as a fasion trend and screen utility until now.
So, this raises another question: are glasses during the time of Halo serve the same purpose as today, or are they more of a personal civilian uplink to the future internet? I would doubt that it’s just the uplink, because it seems that a snall minority wear glasses. Which would also in turn make me believe that it’s not a fashion trend. So only those with questionable eyesight would have this.
In the military the helmets have a neural interface(?) to give information behind the retina. Maybe, again, those without a combat role were given glasses that accomplished pretty much the same thing, but either to streamline information, use a specialized eysight that’s not 20-20, or both. Which means glasses are limited to the military and business practices, I’m pretty sure that people would rather use terminals for a lot of this (as seen by the sheer amount of computers shown in Halo). Besides, the computers probably are better in almost every way, the glasses and interfaces would only do information and simple renders.
well optometry is common in our time. Laser eye surgery is almost easy to come by. I would assume in about 500 years it would be more commonplace and affordable. And a better technology.
This is something that I’ve actually thought a fair amount about. I’m pretty sure that by the 2550’s, humanity will have a pretty easy time correcting eye issues. Those that wear glasses probably do so as a fashion trend, similar to wearing earing today (in the sense that they serve no purpose other than aesthetics). For example, Henry Glassman’s are probably there just as a way for him to demonstrate his, as Palmer puts it, “egghead” personality, though they could be some future variant of Google glass.
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every military worker gets a neural interface, I bet eyesight is corrected for the military personel, glasses are probably a civilian thing, and maybe simply work as google glasses, its just something that should be normal still, no matter the age there are people who wont have the possibility of getting surgery, or they simply dont care about getting one, as for spartans the augmentations make their eyesight perfect + they can see in the dark after augmentations, other marines must simply get the surgery, and maybe if they have a condition were they cant get the surgery, say a problem with the mass of the eye, or the high probability of getting blind maybe they wont get it, but if so, I wonder if eyes can be fast cloned and replaced too, guess thats just a question for cannon fodder probably.
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> every military worker gets a neural interface, I bet eyesight is corrected for the military personel, glasses are probably a civilian thing, and maybe simply work as google glasses, its just something that should be normal still, no matter the age there are people who wont have the possibility of getting surgery, or they simply dont care about getting one, as for spartans the augmentations make their eyesight perfect + they can see in the dark after augmentations, other marines must simply get the surgery, and maybe if they have a condition were they cant get the surgery, say a problem with the mass of the eye, or the high probability of getting blind maybe they wont get it, but if so, I wonder if eyes can be fast cloned and replaced too, guess thats just a question for cannon fodder probably.
Actually, the UNSC’s medical technology is at the point at which an average field medic can grow new organs in a few minutes, or hours.
Of course, they rarely get the opportunity to use that tech, because marines and soldiers almost always get KIA by a single hit from Covenant weaponry,
and the few WIA are much better patched up with biofoam, until they receive treatment better than anything a field medic could hope to do.
That, in addition to the neural interfaces that the UNSC loves to put inside stuff leads me to believe that a missing/“broken” eye can be easily replaced with either a vat-grown, biological replacement, or a cybernetical replacement.
The reason for why people in Halo are wearing glasses is the exact same reason for which the UNSC is using people as ground troops:
the rule of cool
Probably everyone gets the correction surgery while still school-age (or upon enlisting in the military or with a government job), then later special-purpose glasses for special people/positions. That would make sense in a world where artificial limbs are grown when needed.