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Focusing to infinity and nearby objects
I have noticed this weird things with current Dev Kit. When looking at some textured object that is right in front of you, your eyes tend to both look at it and simultaneously focus at it. Because the...
"Ananas" wrote:
I think no one else has mentioned this because I too only noticed it when something was maybe just 5-10cm away from the camera.
In real life, you can't focus on an object that is 5cm away, so it's just a blurry mess. Convergence is mainly driven by sharp edges (matching them between the two eyes), so having blurry edges mean your brain quickly gives up trying to converge your eyes on the object.
But in VR, everything is sharp whatever distance it is. So now your brain does actually try to get your eyes to converge on the object, and that can actually hurt. It may be that adding an artificial blur on objects closer than about 15cm will help prevent this happening by accident in a game.