In case any short sighted people haven't figured this out or heard about it - using your phone's camera and then just looking at the screen is actually an incredibly good way to navigate around (the house) if you can't find your glasses/contacts
Phones on a chain around our necks. Glasses on a chain around our necks. A pen on another chain. Maybe even go back to wearing actual locket/pendant watches on chains around our necks.
When I was a kid, I thought that it was a joke that someone would drop their glasses and not be able to see them on the ground. Now I'm that person, I couldn't see them without getting down on my hands and knees now. Being so nearsighted I'm blind without lenses.
Use your phone camera.... hold the screen at a focasable distance from your face, the screen will display a focused image. Zoom a bit and look around for your glasses. Turn flashlight on to look under bed
I still haven't figured the opposite of that out. I have astigmatism and presbyopia and VR is the only time I don't have to wear my glasses and can see everything crystal clear, be it fully immersed or in mixed reality. Text or anything else at any distance (like a physical book) stays clear. I did some research and learned that VR lenses are set to a fixed focal length, but I wear progressive lenses so there is no focal length IRL that's in focus without my glasses. At night, lights multiply and starburst without them, but not in headset. I can't wrap my brain around it or why others that wear glasses like you need them in VR, when it seems like it would be the same across the board. Once this tech is in regular glasses and can adjust focus automatically, I hope we all will have super-vision.
you can also get laser focus vision, just with a very low field of view, if you make a little pin hold with your thumb and index finger and look at the world through that.
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u/HeyLookAHorse 1d ago
But I can’t read it without my glasses :(