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I have normal vision (with glasses) in both eyes, but I also have strabismus, that is, one eye turns inward a bit; so rather than seeing double, I use one eye a
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
I have normal vision (with glasses) in both eyes, but I also have strabismus, that is, one eye turns inward a bit; so rather than seeing double, I use one eye at a time, and can switch from one to the other voluntarily. I just get peripheral vision from the "off" eye.
I don't miss the depth perception much, but it does mean I get nothing from 3D glasses. With the modern polarized kind I can at least wear them and watch the movie normally; with the old red/blue kind, the whole movie would be red or blue depending on which eye I was using.
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- Brockenstein 9y agoI've experienced something similar. I kind of think that the other eye is still working and providing some depth perception, it's either that or after lifetime of single eye dominance/usage you just adapt and become very good at estimating and judging depth and distance. In my case never having normal vision, I don't really know what I am missing, if anything.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYeah! I did some reading and apparently binocular depth perception is the least important kind, and only works out to about six feet anyway; past that there's not enough parallax between your eyes to get any useful info. Judging distance by an object's surroundings is the most common way of doing it even for people with normal vision.