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   Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 19:25:42 JST Dawn Ahukanna

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   • Dr. Casey Fiesler
   • Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)

   @sharoz @cfiesler

   … and VR will stay “5 years away” as long as VR headsets don’t have the same availability and utility as glasses.
   BTW over 50% of the global population wear glasses for some sort of “-opia”. Yet fundamental assumption by VR headset, all people have “no-opia”. So already reduced potential market by 50%.

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     Dr. Casey Fiesler (cfiesler@hci.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 19:25:50 JST Dr. Casey Fiesler

     an interesting anecdote for wondering "how big is VR right now" is that if you go to the Google News category for VR on any given day, about half of the articles are about Pokemon Go

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     Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤) (sharoz@scicomm.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 19:25:50 JST Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)

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     • Dr. Casey Fiesler

     @cfiesler

     VR has been "5 years away" from having common uses outside of gaming for the past 40 years.

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     Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤) (sharoz@scicomm.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 19:31:42 JST Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)

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     • Dr. Casey Fiesler

     @dahukanna @cfiesler

     What's tricky about VR is that because it's not actually far and the headset's lens is doing the bulk of refraction for you, most glasses wearers can and should take off their glasses to use the headset. Here's my understanding of how headset wearing is impacted by different conditions:

     Myopia (nearsighted): fine without glasses.
     Astigmatism (non-spherical): need contacts with the headset.
     Presbyopia (poor focusing ability): fine without glasses except for extreme cases.

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     Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤) (sharoz@scicomm.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 19:56:31 JST Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)

     • Dr. Casey Fiesler
     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah @cfiesler @dahukanna

     Other possible VR issues:

     1) It takes some getting used to. Maybe give it more time or try double checking the fit and calibration. But if you struggle after careful calibration and a few 10+ minutes sessions, then...

     2) You may have mild astigmatism. Worth discussion at next optometry appointment.

     3) Some folks (~10%) have reduced depth perception ability from stereo images. Even non-glasses-wearers just never get the headset images to fuse and stay focused.

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     Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤) (sharoz@scicomm.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 20:10:24 JST Steve Haroz (@sharoz on 🐤)

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah

     Have you tried adjusting the lens distance? -2 diopters should be well within the range it can accommodate.

     https://www.vive.com/us/support/vive/category_howto/adjusting-the-lens-distance.html

     https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-hidden-mechanism-maximum-field-of-view-lens-to-eye-distance/