Re: dumb question

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:18 PM 8/22/96, P3D  Chuck Field-ECF004 wrote:
>I have an astigmatism.  I had to take off my glasses, the other night, so I
>could finally put on the headgear for a virtual reality game.  (It was my
>first time) I tired to focus the damned thing with the knobs on each side.
>To no avail.  Everything was a horrible blurr, and I could barely see well
>enough to realize the 3-D effect.
>Here's the dumb question:
> Is gear like that made so that it can correct for vision problems such as
>astigmatism?
> CAN gear like that BE made so that it can correct for vision problems such
>as astigmatism?

Not affordably, I'd imagine.  You'd have to be able to vary not
only the strength of each lens but its orientation as well.

>  I love collecting antique views, but have always had trouble seeing them
>well, in the antique viewers.  (My glasses don't fit)
> Am I cursed to never be able to fully appreciate my hobby?

You can get scopes nowadays without hoods...or switch to smaller
glasses (says the idiot who recently switched up to too-wide
spectable frames  :-(   ) or contacts.

-Jim C.




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