![]() ![]() It's that we're not taking sufficient steps to relax the muscles you eventually strain. The issue isn't with the screens being so close. Stare at any one thing for long enough, and you’ll experience it still be it a computer screen at your desk, your laptop, phone, or tablet. Digital eye strain (opens in new tab) isn’t exclusive to VR. So what can you do about it? As much as your eyes will acclimate to the VR experience with enough practice and patience, that isn’t to say you’ll eventually shake off the effects completely. Like an optical illusion, which VR basically is, it takes time for our brains to “get it,” which means our eyes struggle to focus at first, causing our muscles to become overworking and stiff, resulting in, you guessed it, eye strain. They’d subside within moments of taking the headset off. Most aren’t used to having a screen so close to their eyes, never mind two behind a plane of glass designed to distort the split image around their peripheral vision. It’s the kind of game-changing experience we dreamt of as a child and one we think everyone needs to try.īut family members both older and younger, who we’ve admittedly tossed into the deep end of the VR ecosystem with my experiments, have either felt motion sick or struggled to focus on the image without some sort of discomfort. We're lucky enough to have never had much of an issue from standing in the rain with the beloved anime character Totoro on the original single-screen, low-resolution Oculus Rift DK2 to grabbing smashing zombie heads in Saints & Sinners and driving a truck around Bilbao, Spain on our Oculus Quest 2. ![]()
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