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Unfortunately this won't help me, 20/200 corrected in one eye, 20/20 in the other. :( In addition to that, the focal depth of my eyes is just a bit off as well

by com2kid 13y ago

Unfortunately this won't help me, 20/200 corrected in one eye, 20/20 in the other. :( In addition to that, the focal depth of my eyes is just a bit off as well (hah apparently the lens in my blind eye is actually better! Go figure). Still awaiting optical nerve regeneration tech. The flip side of this is how bitter (and a bit fearful I am) of 3D tech taking over. I worry that it'll become required for user interface interaction at some point in the future, and that I'll be SOL.

pshc 13y ago
You could use two different eyecups (containing different lenses) for each eye in the Rift. Could work if they happen to provide just the right kind of lens. Maybe differing focal depth could be dealt with in software? When you use the Rift, your eyes are focused at infinity.
- com2kid 13y ago
  The key problem is that one of my eyes is next to useless. If I close my dominant eye, my other eye (corrected!) can pretty much see that there is an orange bar at the top, some sort of tanish area, some black stuff that is texty, and a white box below it that has texty stuff in it. On the infamous eye exam chart, I can barely make out the top most letter. One one hand it is sort of nifty, it is almost like a holographic degradation of quality, it'd be more interesting though if it wasn't happening to me! Oddly enough I found out that the problem I have (underdeveloped optic nerve) often co-occurs with grip strength problems. After an Amazon order and a week of training my grip, my life long problem of dropping things has been resolved. (Cost me $2k for the neuropsych eval to figure this out, but not dropping stuff all the time is a huge confidence booster, so I am A-OK with the trade off!) Anyway, hopefully nerve regeneration takes off, I'd love to be able to see properly. (Not to mention all the other problems it'd solve for people!)

by com2kid 13y ago

pshc 13y ago

You could use two different eyecups (containing different lenses) for each eye in the Rift. Could work if they happen to provide just the right kind of lens. Maybe differing focal depth could be dealt with in software? When you use the Rift, your eyes are focused at infinity.

com2kid 13y ago
The key problem is that one of my eyes is next to useless. If I close my dominant eye, my other eye (corrected!) can pretty much see that there is an orange bar at the top, some sort of tanish area, some black stuff that is texty, and a white box below it that has texty stuff in it. On the infamous eye exam chart, I can barely make out the top most letter. One one hand it is sort of nifty, it is almost like a holographic degradation of quality, it'd be more interesting though if it wasn't happening to me! Oddly enough I found out that the problem I have (underdeveloped optic nerve) often co-occurs with grip strength problems. After an Amazon order and a week of training my grip, my life long problem of dropping things has been resolved. (Cost me $2k for the neuropsych eval to figure this out, but not dropping stuff all the time is a huge confidence booster, so I am A-OK with the trade off!) Anyway, hopefully nerve regeneration takes off, I'd love to be able to see properly. (Not to mention all the other problems it'd solve for people!)