I’m not sure what you are experiencing, but I have been using two different sets of old eyes glasses since the beginning of the year, one for my reading-switch-ipad gaming, another one for my work-computer tasks, as to keep it relatively easy when adjusting between media.
I’ve honestly never experienced that. Might wanna talk to your eye doctor.
Thing is, after about an hour it’s fine. And it’s just reading the text/numbers on screen on things like twitter, or this message board or excel.
All of which are (for me) black text on white background. Hmm.
I had many issues reading black text on white background in a way that sounds quite similar to your issue, a few years ago: I would sit at my computer and just have sort of black spotted vision where I could hardly make out the text? It’s a sensation that is quite hard to describe.
But it was a period of my life when I was stressed out, and that issue got better when I changed my environment (and got drugs too, now that I think about it!).
Somewhere in the spectrum of FTL, Slay the Spire, and Halcyon 6 exists FTW
Is the issue the distance between your eyes and the screen?
A little bit, perhaps? But hard to say.
Right now I’m at my work desktop, and I can see the text here clear and un-blurry and it’s sharp and fully readable.
But after an hour of Switch (handheld mode, not docked on TV), at this same distance everything gets SUPER blurry and I have to move in to where my normal nearsightedness kicks in and it’s just regular blurry. :)
I suspect it may be a side-effect of astigmatism, and my growing need for progressive lens bifocals.
The crazy part of all of it is that it all gradually gets back to normal over the course of an hour or two.
Lantz
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I would say that there is a very strong case that you need progressives. I didn’t have the same exact issues, but I had issues around the distance I hold my switch where it is right around the inflection point that was the reason I had to finally go to progressives and it has made a huge difference.
I’ve been doing relatively cheap online glasses for my single vision [sun]glasses and still do, but I bite the bullet and pay the roughly trillion dollars for high end progressives. Overall I don’t really notice that I am wearing them (as long as I switch out for sports), but from my research the online ones have more noticeable artifacts if you like rotate your head diagonal (hard to explain if you don’t wear progressives).
Oh, I have a prescription for progressives. :) I’m just too much of a baby to go through the adjustment period to get used to wearing them. So for now I wear my single-vision glasses that help with viewing at distance, and just take off my glasses and squint when I play board games with cards, etc. :)
I should probably just go do the thing and get a pair and start wearing them.
Stupid brain being so good at overworking itself without we noticing it.
When I tried for my old eye glasses for a few minutes, before I got them proper the following week, being back to my “regular” view was unsufferable — I didn’t even understand how I could have managed to read anything, given the amount of efforts required.
I still forget to use them from time to time, which I notice usually when it’s too late, and I feel really tired.
I’m your evil twin: I still can’t get used to progressive (being easily motion sick for other reasons), but I dropped long-distance view most of the time, and switch to my close view glasses when I need them.
I’ve got progressive trifocals and don’t have this issue. They take some getting used to but they’re great.
Lantz
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I’m not sure what is typical, but it only took me a day to get used to them. Just woke up fresh in the morning with them and felt normal the second day. Not having to constantly take my glasses off was a huge help.
After weeks of trying they still make me dizzy. I’m built wrong ;(
Lantz
4147
I definitely see how it could happen. Just out of curiosity, how much were your lenses? Mine were like $6-700 for the lenses (which as someone who goes for like $60 single vision glasses was tough to talk myself into) and part of the theoretical reason that they are worth that is that they have a larger progressive area than cheaper ones that is supposed to help.
450 euros. They are big enough to cover my field of view, but i can’t seem to get used to transitioning: i will still get dizzy whenever i switch focals. I can’t stand up on a snowy ground, so that might be linked to that.
In any case I’m very jealous!
Haha. I’ve got such terrible vision I get my contacts for free (medically necessary). And as of about 5 years ago realized I needed readers on top of that. But when I work at home I use regular single scrip glasses and just slide them down the nose a bit for reading or gaming up close. But I do also notice there is some time adjusting focus if I change from glasses to contacts and readers or back. Fucking age man. Whatcha gonna do?
Tyjenks
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I wonder if my astigmatism is why 1st person games have made me nauseated for so many years. I wear glasses and that doesn’t have seemed to have changed things. I’ve got progressive lenses…who knows. I am also broken. :)
Same. And I think that it’s potentially quite likely.
I have astigmatism and have never gotten motion sick (in general, but certainly never playing any games) and I can play the Switch for hours at a time handheld (I’m near sighted, though, and do not have progressive lenses).
My issue with hand held gaming is after about 20-40 minutes (variable) my finger tips get tingly like they are falling asleep. I shake my hands about to get the circulation going and after a few minutes it’s fine again for awhile, but it’s alarming and I do not like.
