It depends on what you mean by "affect" (I'd be curious also where you're getting your empirical data from since there's not a lot of publicly published data fr

It depends on what you mean by "affect" (I'd be curious also where you're getting your empirical data from since there's not a lot of publicly published data from what I can find). While I agree it's not necessarily a showstopper, the negative results in the studies I've seen all point to VAC as being something that is a negative factor that is high on the list of things to solve for. Shibata, Takashi, Joohwan Kim, David M. Hoffman, and Martin S. Banks. “Visual Discomfort with Stereo Displays: Effects of Viewing Distance and Direction of Vergence-Accommodation Conflict.” Proceedings of SPIE 7863 (February 15, 2011): 78630P-1-78630P – 9. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872347 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872347. Daniel, François, and Zoï Kapoula. “Induced Vergence-Accommodation Conflict Reduces Cognitive Performance in the Stroop Test.” Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 1247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37778-y https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37778-y. Batmaz, Anil Ufuk, Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca, Junwei Sun, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger. “The Effect of the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict on Virtual Hand Pointing in Immersive Displays.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–15. CHI ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502067 https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502067.