Do you know if there's research into whether VR is harmful for your eyes? Obviously not short-term, but if you played a couple hours a day, would it be bad for your eyes? That's my biggest concern.
Okay, so I haven't published anything on this, but I have asked several optometrists explicitly. They have all said that the worst that can happen is you get a headache from eyestrain the first few times you use it, that you might feel tired, but ultimately it goes away, there is no chance for permanent damage. Their view was that the muscles tire out, that you can't strain them to the point of injury, and it just becomes uncomfortable and unworkable, but not damaging.
Not much research, not many conclusions, so hard to say. There could be accommodation issues but more likely only if you're using VR >10 hours/day. And as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lightfield displays will eventually fix the accommodation issues.
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Do you know if there's research into whether VR is harmful for your eyes? Obviously not short-term, but if you played a couple hours a day, would it be bad for your eyes? That's my biggest concern.
Okay, so I haven't published anything on this, but I have asked several optometrists explicitly. They have all said that the worst that can happen is you get a headache from eyestrain the first few times you use it, that you might feel tired, but ultimately it goes away, there is no chance for permanent damage. Their view was that the muscles tire out, that you can't strain them to the point of injury, and it just becomes uncomfortable and unworkable, but not damaging.
Not much research, not many conclusions, so hard to say. There could be accommodation issues but more likely only if you're using VR >10 hours/day. And as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lightfield displays will eventually fix the accommodation issues.