Eventually, yes. But your optometrist does more than just check your refractive correction, but it’s likely nothing that a couple of pictures, a short video and some AI can’t muddle through with a pretty high precision.
Getting your refractive index would allow them to at least order your glasses. And they could always send off your imagery to a service that looks at the data. Hell, if you’re a contact wearer, they could probably just dispense them from the machine.
The one thing that would still be missing is a place to actually properly fit you, and then fix your frames after you’ve settled them a few times.
Could this be automated like those blood pressure machines they have at pharmacies?
Eventually, yes. But your optometrist does more than just check your refractive correction, but it’s likely nothing that a couple of pictures, a short video and some AI can’t muddle through with a pretty high precision.
Getting your refractive index would allow them to at least order your glasses. And they could always send off your imagery to a service that looks at the data. Hell, if you’re a contact wearer, they could probably just dispense them from the machine.
The one thing that would still be missing is a place to actually properly fit you, and then fix your frames after you’ve settled them a few times.
The “auto” in autofrefactor is because it’s the automatic test. It’s the “Look at the farmhouse/balloon” test.
There are several videos about how it works, but if you want to waste some time, this one is about where the image comes from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7I7fmZdOA