Hello,
I just got an Oculus from one of my friend as a gift to support my indie game development so that i can develop games for VR. I set up everything and when I tested the oculus with a demo game I find its too blurred for me just like looking via a poor glass. I only have vision in left eye and vision in my right eye is completely gone immediately after my birth. I gave the oculus to some of my friends and they could actually enjoy the oculus but I couldn't. I think its because oculus is build for people with normal eyes. Note that I have normal vision in my left eye but just my right eye dont have vision. Does any other oculus users have told about this issue? will there be something done for it? I am really excited about where VR is going but it makes me sad when i can't enjoy a game I developed with VR
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Don't worry about any lack of responce most people don't know how to respond to a question like this in a forum where it is perhaps thought that the primary point is in using both eyes. Its easy to forget that steroscopic views is just one aspect of VR. My other hobby is astronomy and everyone has an opinion on using one eye in those forums including peolple with one eye, one good eye and two bad eyes.
We can assume that optically the oculus rift has no dependance on a requirement for both eyes other than the stereoscopic vision. Obvious but lets get that out of the way. So lets consider any optical correction of your one good eye.
I have a very strong astigmatism in both my eyes and cant enjoy anything related to watching a screen, reading emails, road signs etc. unless I wear my glasses. So I would think that with your good eye that you would have had any optical issues corrected with glasses.
Do you wear them when using the rift?
We should assume you have gone through the process of setting up the rift optical alignment?
Regards.
Maybe someday a patch will come out that simulates what 2 eyes see in for one eye while in vr.
We can assume that optically the oculus rift has no dependance on a requirement for both eyes other than the stereoscopic vision. Obvious but lets get that out of the way.
I have a very strong astigmatism in both my eyes and cant enjoy anything related to watching a screen, reading emails, road signs etc. unless I wear my glasses. So I would think that with your good eye that you would have had any optical issues corrected with glasses. There are lots of question I guess with this.
It might be that no one else has tried this and you might be amongst the first. Posting your experiences might be more helpful in working out were the problem might be and in helping those that follow.
If you not used to it people have a hard time calculate distance with 1 eye only, and thats another reason why doctors deny car-driving if someone gets a temporarly eye damage.
But I can imagine it must be hard to use VR even with a trained eye, if the scale isnt 100% accurate. And nearly impossible if playing something with a lot of unknown object sizes
Sorry for the late reply. I almost forgot about this thread after I posted it. Thanks for your input. So as @SapowiTz
pointed out, although stereoscopic vision is natural, I have never ever experienced it in my life. Yes, I'm 25 now and I got better with one eyed vision over time. But there are thousand instances in my day to day life where i struggle. like pouring wine in a glass, or playing cricket(British version of baseball, a religion in India now. And I shouldnt be playing it anyways by doctors advice as its very risky
Also as you guys said, driving was real hard for me initially. I dont own a car but I do have a motorcycle. Initially switching lanes to the right were a big issue on expressways as there is always a blind spot in rear view mirrors. but I bought a wider mirror and practiced a lot and now I can drive really well. I even take road trips in my cruiser.
So I think I should wait till a tech comes for this. or maybe try to research on this to invent a tech for it.
on a completely unrelated point, I have a doubt which i think you guys can shed some light on:
whenever i take a pillion passenger on my motorcycle, I find it hard to stabilize. Its not like I cant manage weight. I clearly can. but I feel the center of gravity is off or something. like say i feel lot of drag like a locomotive coach dragging the engine because its improperly designed. my motorcycle is also not a bad one. its a 220cc engine and can reach 0-100 with a decent 9-10 sec. Is it possible that people with two eye has different center of gravity than ppl with one eye? i know body weight also factors for COG but im just wondering what is actually causing it.
Oh, I'm adding : lack of stereoscopic feeling is far to be a show stopper in the Rift. You can still enjoy all applications and games. Also, some monoscopic applications games exist too like 360 panoramas...
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Right now, two eyes work the best with your brain doing some of the work to tell far an object is. This is a limitation of Gen1 for any headset and could be an issue even with gen 2 headsets until we can get eye tracking and depth of field working.
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