I would really like to try VR to see if it would even work on me. I have some type of congenital nystagmus, except mine has no slow phase rhythm, only a steady rapid back and forth movement. Binoculars are difficult to use because there is not enough picture or field overlap to allow my brain to compensate for the eye movement. My vision doesn’t shake normally. If I relax and don’t focus on anything in particular I will “see” the uncompensated movement. Weird things can happen in my peripheral vision, or if something occurs that is too fast to compensate with. A good example of this is a flashing light on a vehicle, like a school bus. If I’m on the interstate and it’s a half mile down the road I see the bus driving along with all the other traffic. However, the light doesn’t necessarily appear on top of the bus. One blink may be on the bus, the next 10’ off in space, then 3’, then on the bus again. Also I can see flickering up past 120hz…cheap LED Christmas lights give me vertigo and nausea.
That’s all to say, I’d love to try a VR headset. Back in the day the PC game Descent had warning for vertigo and dizziness due to its 360 degree nature. That never bothered me. I’d love to experience a game like that through a headset. But without trying one first I’m never going to shell out money, the odds are just to high my eyes would just go nope to that.
