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VR headsets for people with minimal depth perception and double vision? (self.Blind)
submitted by xXKungFuSwagMasterXx
Disclaimer: I am not legally blind but I am visually impaired.
I was hit in the head with a metal baseball bat when I was 8, right beside my left eye. The doctors told me if the bat would've hit me any harder or any closer to my eye, I most likely would have lost my eye. I had a tear under the skin in the corner of my eye and after that, my eye was in a different position and I got extreme double vision. I am now 19, and my prescription keeps increasing each time I go to the eye doctors. I have exotropia and hypotropia in my left eye. My eye muscles are also incredibly weak, I don't know the reason why but that's what eye doctors always say. I very easily get migraines and I can only really see about 4-8 feet in front of me. Anything further is blurry and gets blurrier the longer I'm awake. Anything closer I struggle to keep my eyes working together and will often get a migraine trying to focus or read. I have very poor depth perception and spatial awareness. I'm often bumping into walls, door frames, large objects, and people since I can't tell where they are in relation to me. My eye doctors have told me driving is a bad idea, and I agree since I can't tell how far things are from myself.
Recently, I have been looking into getting a VR headset, however in my minimal experience, VR doesn't really work with my eyes. I have trouble fitting various headsets over my glasses, and even once it's on, I have a hard time seeing it. My eyes will not form one image regardless of how hard I try and I often get a migraine and nausea right away. It doesn't really matter if I'm wearing glasses or not. If I don't wear glasses, it's far blurrier and if I do, it's less blurry but I still can't make two images into just one.
Have any people with similar vision struggles as me had any success with getting a VR headset?
I was hit in the head with a metal baseball bat when I was 8, right beside my left eye. The doctors told me if the bat would've hit me any harder or any closer to my eye, I most likely would have lost my eye. I had a tear under the skin in the corner of my eye and after that, my eye was in a different position and I got extreme double vision. I am now 19, and my prescription keeps increasing each time I go to the eye doctors. I have exotropia and hypotropia in my left eye. My eye muscles are also incredibly weak, I don't know the reason why but that's what eye doctors always say. I very easily get migraines and I can only really see about 4-8 feet in front of me. Anything further is blurry and gets blurrier the longer I'm awake. Anything closer I struggle to keep my eyes working together and will often get a migraine trying to focus or read. I have very poor depth perception and spatial awareness. I'm often bumping into walls, door frames, large objects, and people since I can't tell where they are in relation to me. My eye doctors have told me driving is a bad idea, and I agree since I can't tell how far things are from myself.
Recently, I have been looking into getting a VR headset, however in my minimal experience, VR doesn't really work with my eyes. I have trouble fitting various headsets over my glasses, and even once it's on, I have a hard time seeing it. My eyes will not form one image regardless of how hard I try and I often get a migraine and nausea right away. It doesn't really matter if I'm wearing glasses or not. If I don't wear glasses, it's far blurrier and if I do, it's less blurry but I still can't make two images into just one.
Have any people with similar vision struggles as me had any success with getting a VR headset?
jamesoloughlin 3 points 2y ago
Hmm, a few things I would say as someone else recommended you may be able to purchase prescription inserts. I’m not sure if every headset supports them though. The Valve Index I think has great spacing to accommodate glasses also due to it’s wider FOV and the design of the optics/displays has less 3D overlap (not sure if this is a relevant consideration).
The Quest 2 I know supports prescription inserts and a glasses spacer is included to accommodate glasses. Their optics have a larger sweet spot but their IPD adjustment settings is limited compared to other headsets. Ultimately I am curious which VR system you are looking at if any in particular. These two mentioned are at varying ends of the spectrum but the top recommendations.
As far as the problem of making two images into one I’m not 100% confident there is a solution to address this problem for you right now but I just don’t know enough. I think one possibility is that future VR headsets will likely use light field displays (as oppose to LCD and OLED) with different optics which will offer a more natural realistic method of viewing virtual 3D environments. Right now VR headsets utilize a crud 100 year old design method for displays and optics; utilizing sort of off-the-shelf LCD or OLED displays mainly because the economies of scale and infrastructure exists to produce them. Unfortunelty light field displays are years away from being productized though but even then I am still not sure if that technology will address the issue.
The Quest 2 I know supports prescription inserts and a glasses spacer is included to accommodate glasses. Their optics have a larger sweet spot but their IPD adjustment settings is limited compared to other headsets. Ultimately I am curious which VR system you are looking at if any in particular. These two mentioned are at varying ends of the spectrum but the top recommendations.
As far as the problem of making two images into one I’m not 100% confident there is a solution to address this problem for you right now but I just don’t know enough. I think one possibility is that future VR headsets will likely use light field displays (as oppose to LCD and OLED) with different optics which will offer a more natural realistic method of viewing virtual 3D environments. Right now VR headsets utilize a crud 100 year old design method for displays and optics; utilizing sort of off-the-shelf LCD or OLED displays mainly because the economies of scale and infrastructure exists to produce them. Unfortunelty light field displays are years away from being productized though but even then I am still not sure if that technology will address the issue.
limmersquid 2 points 2y ago
I don't know if you could get these to your prescription (might need to contact them directly) but they might help with the fit issue.
https://vroptician.com/
https://vroptician.com/
xXKungFuSwagMasterXx [OP] 1 points 2y ago
That's cool! I wonder if they charge extra for prisms, since my normal glasses were an extra almost $400 for prisms.
MostlyBlindGamer 1 points 2y ago
Have you ever tried IPD adjustment?
xXKungFuSwagMasterXx [OP] 2 points 2y ago
That's a good idea actually. Would I measure with or without my glasses on? I find my left eye looks outward more without glasses on, at least in pictures.
MostlyBlindGamer 2 points 2y ago
I'd say whichever way you'll be using the headset. There are prescription lenses for VR headsets as well as glasses spacers.
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