(Probably) Another "How long in VR is healthy for you", or bad

[TorTorden_VR]

My eyesight actually got better. I improved by 1/2 diopter in each eye (twice) in 18 months. Seems like it might be good eye exercise. I play almost daily. ymmv

Well eyesight is often changing.
Sometimes very gradually and sometimes with leaps.

Usually if a person with myopia ages, most start aging towards farsightedness or at least less nearsighted.
This normally happen at the end of the 20's or mid thirties.

In short I don't think vr has much to do with these shifts in vision, I do however noticed my depth perception has improved a bit with vr but that's not really a vision related development.
But a training of the brains perception and that's more of a skill to be developed as well as biology.

 

[VR Mr Teatime]

I generally play sessions of 2 hours or so, but have gone as long as 8 hours (with 1 break). A longish 1 hour or so stint in the SRV towards the end of the 8 hours had me getting a bit nauseous, but I pushed on through it for another 10 mins to get the data I needed and got back in my ship and after 15 mins, was pretty much OK.

I would say that my tolerance has improved a lot since last Oct/Nov when I first got my Rift, whereas I used to get, not nausea as such, but a "funky" sensation snapping out of barrel rolls and other violent maneuvers I no longer do. I guess the you get used to the brain/body disconnect after a while.

One thing that gave me a feeling that I can only describe as "like having a stroke" or something, was when a power brown out dropped the single sensor I had at the time momentarily, and the entire universe in VR snapped 90 degrees to the left for a second (yawed) and then snapped back again - that was "unpleasant".

Other than that the current hot weather in the UK has made wearing the Rift a somewhat uncomfortable sweaty affair (my home office/cockpit was reading 32C today).

 

[dogbite]

Well eyesight is often changing.
Sometimes very gradually and sometimes with leaps.

Usually if a person with myopia ages, most start aging towards farsightedness or at least less nearsighted.
This normally happen at the end of the 20's or mid thirties.

In short I don't think vr has much to do with these shifts in vision, I do however noticed my depth perception has improved a bit with vr but that's not really a vision related development.
But a training of the brains perception and that's more of a skill to be developed as well as biology.

There is something to be said for exercising the eyes, though, and VR certainly could do that. Regardless, my point was more toward the "does no apparent harm" kind of thing.

 

[Verlaine]

My eyesight actually got better. I improved by 1/2 diopter in each eye (twice) in 18 months. Seems like it might be good eye exercise. I play almost daily. ymmv

My left eye's astigmatism disappeared sometime in the last year. I wonder if VR could have been why.

 

[Actionman2222]

If you have problems ehen working on a screen it's because it's a small part of your fov and most likely too bright compared with your surrounds.
Current LCD monitors are now practically capable of eye searing levels of light output, so turn that backlighting down to maybe 20% of normal.

VR this is not a problem since it fills nearly all of your fov, and the natural responses of the eye can fully work.

Reason for example of why for so long people, have been told to not watch tv in the dark. Is that the screen is so small its not large enough to trigger the responses in the eye that when adjusted to the dark, to deal with the brightness of the small screen.
Again if the screen goes big enough your eyes will adjust naturally and this has the added effect of increasing immersion for movie watching tenfold.

Now for this to truly work you probably need a screen larger than 65" and closer to it than 3m.

Very informative, I've turned down my screen brightness. It was maxed out on full settings. I guess any effects from VR, good or bad, will tell with time.

 

[vic]

hmmm I feel I should add something about my experience in VR here related to health. I've been playing ED (and warthunder) in VR for more than a year now. The only health issue I've come across is the fact that ALL I would think about doing when I came home was to hookup and go in to VR world. I started becoming anxious more and more with time passing becuase my real life devotions like girlfreind, house chores, work, even my dog for god's sake were becoming frustrations for me beacuse they conitinuously chew up my time that I could go play in VR. Needless to say I now have developed physical symptoms related in anxiousness disorder according to my gp (like sleeplessness, loss of appetite etc). Not necessarily saying that my absolute love for VR was the sole reason for my disorder, but I did notice it added (without me even realizing it) to my daily frustrations.
So beware , please play VR when you actually have free time and not have to MAKE time for it!!!(like I was doing)
Just my 2 cents...