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What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by Doxin »

suyash wrote: post #168

It's like being in front of a large television screen for many hours. Can't be good for your eyes, curious to hear how your eye test results will come out after 6 months to year of 40-50 hours/week of VR usage.

The main difference there is that the lenses in a VR headset make the focus plane be infinitely far away. The main thing that's bad for your eyes with monitors and TVs is focusing your eyes up close for hours and hours. If anything a VR headset would be better for your eyes than a regular monitor.

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by HanaShiratori »

wonnage wrote: post #157
jaxn wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does add separation from work and not-work. Take the headset off and you go from work to home without any commute.

Isn't this why everyone is burnt out from WFH? The desk is right there, you can sit down/strap in any time, and "leaving" work is mostly just a mental shift

What? Since when does WFH burn everyone out? At least my perception is that people want to stick to it... I'm confused

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by dbtc »

foxes wrote: post #37

There is a part of me that is disturbed. I like working at my big wooden table overlooking the city, nice natural light filtering in, the ability to detach from the screen and pace around to take a break. VR for work seems like a trap, you'll be consumed, ensnared by something that demands all your attention. You won't know freedom. Maybe this is the current state of headsets, clunky, like a chain with cables, bad tr…

> Imagine if the entire virtual space had powerful programming environments, some more powerful version of Mathematica, I could gesture and run a some powerful.

Not sure.

But I think that there will be far fewer people who work relative to those who play in these virtual+immersive environments than there are with any of our more augmented ones.

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by Kiro »

stubish wrote: post #106
caslon wrote: post #7

The most critical thing in this piece: Get a better head-strap! He mentions it in passing in the article, but 90% of the strain from wearing the Quest 2 for extended periods of time can be traced to the garbage default head-strap. You want something that properly balances the headset. If you want, you can even get one that gives you a bit of extra charge, too. There are plenty of options. Something critical that does…

> Get a better head-strap! He mentions it in passing in the article, but 90% of the strain from wearing the Quest 2 for extended periods of time can be traced to the garbage default head-strap. You want something that properly balances the headset. I'm very curious why I seem to have heard this exact same advice for every single headset on the market. Why does it seem endemic that headsets ship uncomfortable, fixed w…

For most people the stock strap is good enough. I spend a lot of time in VR and never even considered replacing the strap.

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by inDigiNeous »

suyash wrote: post #168

It's like being in front of a large television screen for many hours. Can't be good for your eyes, curious to hear how your eye test results will come out after 6 months to year of 40-50 hours/week of VR usage.

Curious about how blasting WiFi next to your head 8 hours a day affects your brain also, especially when dealing with high bandwidth streams like video all the time.

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by [deleted] »

magpi3 wrote: post #103
keville wrote: post #51

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> my big wooden table overlooking the city, nice natural light filtering in, the ability to detach from the screen and pace around to take a break Nice flex, but not everyone has this kind of setup.

A decent size table, natural lighting and room to pace is a flex?

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Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #150
asdff wrote: post #123

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why not just make a burner fb account for these things

It’s actually now pretty hard to create fake FB accounts. You will at least need a phone number, but often times they will also ask for ID scan if the detection mechanism will mark your account as fake.

None of this is true. I have bunch of fake FB accounts created for one reason or another. I haven't checked on all of them, but the one I use for Oculus works fine. It is literally two random names picked from generator and a picture of Kermit the frog.

Re: What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

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Post by Kiro »

titzer wrote: post #144
westoncb wrote: post #139

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Is there some basis for thinking that? AFAICT your eyes/brain seem to overlook the physical location of the screen and are tricked into variably focusing based on simulated depth.

It's not just focal distance, but also accommodation and general eye coordination. (Today's) VR screws up your visual neurological systems and studies show this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...

Worth it.
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