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What does the rift look like to people with one eye?

crazychainsaw
Honored Guest
just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?

anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated
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ryanyth
Honored Guest
I think i can answer this.
I demoed the DK2 to a friend who has only vision in 1 eye.
I believe he lost the other eye due to some disease.

He told me that what he saw in the rift is exactly what he sees normally.
There are no double images, no chromatic aberration, no fuzziness.
Best of all, for certain demos Eg: Miku Dance Sphere, he can feel the sense of being really there.

sakura13
Honored Guest
yep thats correct its for me too only at rollercoaster i think I dont feeling the same like people with 2 eyes

KelvinNZ
Honored Guest
"crazychainsaw" wrote:
just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?

anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated


A kind soul let me try his DK2 last weekend and I tried this very thing, I shut one eye and basically my depth perception was gone pretty much. It wasn't all that bad but as the human eyes go, we need both of them to get depth perception so it took away about 75% of the immersion. However, this is just me and we are amazing creatures and are not all the same so who knows, there is a possibility that people with one eye could experience the Rift very much in the same way people with two eyes do, especially if that is what you've become accustomed to.

jayhawk
Superstar
The best answer I saw was close one of your own eyes while using the rift.

HAWKEYE481
Honored Guest
"gypsy816" wrote:
"crazychainsaw" wrote:
just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?

anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated


Just checked with Cyber, and it'd be like you and soylentcola said. It'll be a little deteriorated and disoriented for that person but still a fun experience.


Why did you need to check with cyber & not just test it for yourself?
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wanderica
Honored Guest
"HAWKEYE481" wrote:
"gypsy816" wrote:
"crazychainsaw" wrote:
just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?

anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated


Just checked with Cyber, and it'd be like you and soylentcola said. It'll be a little deteriorated and disoriented for that person but still a fun experience.


Why did you need to check with cyber & not just test it for yourself?


For much the same reason that you can't close your eyes and experience increased sensations of touch and smell. A person that has only one eye has had a very long time for their brain to adapt to the lack of depth perception, and the experience on the Rift between someone living with one eye and someone that has simply closed one eye would be very different.

JohnnyChaos
Honored Guest
a mate came round to try mine. one of his eyes only really sees blurry shapes so he cant see normal 3D and he was VERY impressed by the DK2

I guess if you don't see the normal world in 3D, just the head tracking make it like real life.

tzuvela
Protege
3d effects are done in your brain, signals from eyes are really messy and inverted so brain does best it can with available data, so I guess looking with one eye through rift would be similar to one eye looking at the real world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation

Here is an interesting talk from Jeff Hawkins (he's building artificial neocortex 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZM9JREjnp4
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman

TheAsimovInitia
Honored Guest
A wierd thought. Could you not increase the FOV to simulate full range view for a person with one eye?

AnotherCrazyCan
Adventurer
There was actually an article on this I read a while ago, back when we only had DK1. Someone who was blind in one eye had asked him, and in a somewhat coincidental turn of events the person who got asked had laser eye surgery done and it had actually damaged it so he couldn't use it for a while. He said (for DK1) it wasn't really that different, it just wasn't as "wowing" as there was no depth (as there was no 3D effect for just one eye). Aside from that it wasn't all that different.
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