People with eye issues?

Stereoblindness can be caused by a variety of factors. Some of them, like near or farsightedness can be addressed at least partially in the Rift by using the alternative lenses provided with the dev kit.

Some of them, such as strabismus, could be addressed given software support, although without support in the SDK, that kind of functionality isn't likely to be widespread.

Some of them are beyond the power of the Rift to impact. Loss of vision in one eye is likely to be something the Rift can't help with. There's nothing the Rift is able to do in rendering to a single eye that you wouldn't be able to do on an ordinary monitor, so it's not going to provide any special functionality other than a wide field of view.

I really don't get the point of the question...

The Rift is meant to make you see what you would see in reality. If you are one eye blind in reality then so will you be in the Rift. In that case the Rift will seem as real as for someone with normal vision, compared to your daily reality...

The Rift works very similar to how you would see in real-life. So if anyone has vision issues, these would persist in the headset.

Depending on the condition, a head-mount could actually help overcome the issue. I have heard of experimental treatments for vision problems using HMDs.

However, our software will not support things like this out of box. If you would like to try that you would be on your own to code that kind of software.

An example: People blind in one or have sever vision loss in one eye that cant be corrected with contacts/glasses.

It should work fine. The advantage of the Rift's wide field of view and head tracking is that it immerses you in the virtual world. That works just as well with stereo vision as it does with monoscopic vision.

Medical devices or apparel should also not be a problem. The lenses in the Rift are removable and the screen relief depth is adjustable. People who wear an eye patch may opt to remove the associated lens from the Rift so that it doesn't get in the way of the patch.

A bit off topic but...

"cdranosm" wrote:

Unfortunately I am one of those people that have major loss of vision in their left eye and I am unable to see in 3D with any device/glasses but I have not tried these.

Can you still go to a theatre and enjoy a movie that is in 3D? My father has effectively no vision in his right eye and hasn't tried to see a movie in 3D because he thinks it will be too dim.

just wandering, because that the device is so close to your eyes, is it possible to project the image straight to the optical nerve rather than through your eyes, this way it will solve the glasses and long/short sighted people.

"caitshelter" wrote:
just wandering, because that the device is so close to your eyes, is it possible to project the image straight to the optical nerve rather than through your eyes, this way it will solve the glasses and long/short sighted people.

not really - unless you have an computer-to-brain-interface which is... lets call it science fiction :). For now you have to get the image on the retina of your eye and so it has to pass the lens of the eye. You either have to correct for an eye lens which is not working "properly" (e.g. glasses) or if you have a non-working-retina you are lost. There is no way to circumvent the retina and I'm pretty sure there won't be a way in the near future - at least not a way which will be orderable via the internet for 300 bucks ;-).

There was another thread somewhere on here about a retinal projector I believe...

My brother is partially colorblind in one eye. I tried getting him to view stereoscopic 3d and he just couldn't do it. he said from his view it just looked like the images were flip-flopping in his vision and competing to be seen. the field of view and head tracking still wowed him though.

I wonder if adjusting brightness between displays will increase the 3d effect, by reducing intensity to the dominant eye and increasing brightness to the weaker eye. Most everyone has a dominant eye AFAIK but it is pronounced in some people. Try and force the brain to balance the load a little and hopefully get better depth perception as a result.