1. Don't mess with low framerate. If you're working in a VR scene and the FPS gets jumpy, don't try to "suffer through it". Save your work and take the headset off. Working in VR at 50fps trains bad ocular habits that you have 0 control over once your eyes take on those habits.
2. Take screen breaks every minute. Like not a water break, but simply lift the headset, look around, and dive back in. You want to mimic how you work on a desktop when you quickly look down at your hands, out the window, or at that pen on the edge of your desk.
3. Listen to your body. If you feel hazy when you take the headset off, that is not the wow factor of VR wafting over you, that's literally the feeling of your eyes being strained and disoriented by the vergence accommodation issue and constant screen time. Pause if you feel this
4. Do. Not. Start. Your. Day. In. Virtual. Reality.
Give you eyes time to exercise, look at near and far objects, rack focus to their ocular delight. Jumping straight in is the worst thing you could do to your eyes. This is also just better for your mental health.
5. Warn others. It's great when we see the people in our lives become passionate about VR as well, but eye issues creep up very slowly, and we don't realize there even is an issue till it's too late. Explain how they can keep their eyes safe, the eye strain I have isn't worth it.
6. Be on the lookout for the symptoms I listed above. If you start feeling your eyes jump as you're reading something, notice any strange depth perception issues, or feel a sense of vertigo, schedule an eye appointment immediately and pause VR use.
bad_hair_day wrote:Chaz, did you use the company SG linked? Been giving this serious thought - it could save me a pile of money in disposable contact lenses.
SpaceGazelle wrote:WIDMoVR also came out pretty well iirc.
At nearly 40 with perfect vision, I can safely debunk that as an old wives tale.FranticPea wrote:That's masturbation you're thinking of.
Dreams can come trueWookienopants wrote:Speaking of which... My wife has just booked to fly out to spend three weeks at her parents place. And she's taking the kids. Means I have 3 weeks on my own! And my Oculus arrives a few days into that!
bad_hair_day wrote:Wooks, 64gb in Croydon Currys. Collection only though.
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/gaming/virtual-reality/oculus-quest-vr-gaming-headset-64-gb-10193128-pdt.html
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!