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Not sure how it protects your vision. So, they say take an eye break to relieve the strain, presumably with focussing on a fixed point. These guys are saying th

by clort 11mo ago

Not sure how it protects your vision. So, they say take an eye break to relieve the strain, presumably with focussing on a fixed point. These guys are saying that hey you can instantly focus on something far away and carry on working without even looking away from the screen! That doesn't sound like an eye break to me, and it doesn't sound like it protects your vision at all. I mean, it looks pretty cool but I think their marketing department is not aiming it at my cynical self

plun9 11mo ago
I agree. There are other displays you can use with a greater focal distance: AR glasses, VR headsets, TVs, and projectors. But we haven’t seen the actual product yet.
knollimar 11mo ago
Does eye strain even damage your vision long term?
- plun9 11mo ago
  Your eyeballs elongate when you keep straining them to look at nearby objects for long periods of time.
  - knollimar 11mo ago
    Temporarily, no? I haven't read of any studies that corroborate any vision issues from eye strain. I thought this was an urban myth
    - plun9 11mo ago
      You get pseudomyopia initially, and over time it may develop into actual myopia.
toast0 11mo ago
I feel like it's likely misleading, too. Eye breaks are about changing your focal plane, and if you're looking beyond the monitor to rest your eyes, you won't be seeing the screen. You can experience this with a window with dry erase markers. Focus at a far off point and the dry erase is illegible and may not even disturb your far vision. Focus at the glass and you can read whatever you wrote (subject to penmanship). Heads up displays often have optics to project onto a medium distance focal plane, otherwise your eyes have to work harder and you're not really able to see the scene and the display at the same time.