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With TV you always hear, don't sit too close to it or you will harm your eyes or with computers don't sit behind it all day and give your eyes rest.

 

Now virtual reality will bring the screen basically a few centimeters away from your eyes, isn't that going to end up harming your sight eventually? Or has technology advanced to a point where screens no longer harm your eyes?

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Well there is no proven science behind it but if a company really doesnt wanna talk about the symptoms of using vr then there has to be some kind of down side. The only proven thing is dizziness and bluryness but those dont last long and is usually only for new vr users. 

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The "don't sit too close to the TV" is bullshit. The reason TV or a monitor hurts your eyes is that the eyes are focused on one object, so the muscles shorten and after some time have problem to focus properly, so the best thing you can do is take of your headset or look away from the monitor and take a look outside on something that is far away.

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3 minutes ago, FuriousGamer said:

Well there is no proven science behind it but if a company really doesnt wanna talk about the symptoms of using vr then there has to be some kind of down side. The only proven thing is dizziness and bluryness but those dont last long and is usually only for new vr users. 

We have to wait for some studies and those take a few years.

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I've actually had some strain the last time I've used my vr headset. (I'm not talking about motion sickness) There would be times it just caused my eyes to ache bad which eventually led to me having a headache. I think it depends how long you use the headset + brightness levels, etc.

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1 minute ago, matrix07012 said:

The "don't sit too close to the TV" is bullshit. The reason TV or a monitor hurts your eyes is that the eyes are focused on one object, so the muscles shorten and after some time have problem to focus properly, so the best thing you can do is take of your headset or look away from the monitor and take a look outside on something that is far away.

 

If something fallout 4 came on VR then i have a feeling once you put them on you forget what time is even more then you do on the computer, and if ur lucky someone will poke you to wake you up before you starve to death or are in a coma.....

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5 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Only if he headset traps you inside of Sword Art Online and it kills you if you die inside of the game.

And then his life will have terrible writing and shit characters.

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1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

And then his life will have terrible writing and shit characters.

I was only watching to get up to Trap Kirito in GGO.  All the fan art I saw before watching the series REALLY mislead me. I thought there'd be soooooo many more boys kissing. :(

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8 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I was only watching to get up to Trap Kirito in GGO.  All the fan art I saw before watching the series REALLY mislead me. I thought there'd be soooooo many more boys kissing. :(

We appear to get our kicks from very different kinds of entertainment.

 

Well, at least we both disagree with Sword Art Online.

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If you sit too close to the TV, you can get eye strain because the muscles have to pull so much on the lens to focus on the very nearby screen.

 

With VR headsets, there are lenses that bend the light so the angle of the rays corresponds to objects being at MUCH greater distances than the actual screen(s) in the headsets. So eye strain is much less of an issue compared to sitting close to a TV.

 

Long-term damage from eye strain is hypothetical, AFAIK.

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40 minutes ago, SwiftXShadow said:

With TV you always hear, don't sit too close to it or you will harm your eyes or with computers don't sit behind it all day and give your eyes rest.

That's an old advice back from CRT days because CRT monitors actually damaged your eyes.

 

 

 

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31 minutes ago, matrix07012 said:

The "don't sit too close to the TV" is bullshit. The reason TV or a monitor hurts your eyes is that the eyes are focused on one object, so the muscles shorten and after some time have problem to focus properly, so the best thing you can do is take of your headset or look away from the monitor and take a look outside on something that is far away.

It's bullshit for LCD and AMOLED displays

 

but CRT monitors and TV's actually did damage your eyes.

 

 

The myth still sticks around today since moms don't like kids watching tv all day.

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57 minutes ago, FuriousGamer said:

Well there is no proven science behind it but if a company really doesnt wanna talk about the symptoms of using vr then there has to be some kind of down side. The only proven thing is dizziness and bluryness but those dont last long and is usually only for new vr users. 

This is like saying "smoking only makes you cough the first few times".

It doesn't mean it's not doing damage, it just means it doesn't make you cough because you're used to it.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your argument is somewhat flawed, lol.

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53 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

And then his life will have terrible writing and shit characters.

I'm not sure to agree or funny your comment. Oh, decisions.

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29 minutes ago, rhyseyness said:

This is like saying "smoking only makes you cough the first few times".

It doesn't mean it's not doing damage, it just means it doesn't make you cough because you're used to it.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your argument is somewhat flawed, lol.

I never said it wasn't doing damage and yes you do get used to it thats why I said for new vr users that they may experience that. 

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