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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by akiselev on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:07AM (#30111941)
> So when you're looking at close screens or books for most of your day, the eye makes that be the "at rest" state, but now distant objects are blurry. Now if you insist on having distant objects not blurry (by wearing glasses _all the time_), it's the same situation again and the eye will "adapt" even more, and you'ell get more power glasses, and so on...

My optometrist specifically prescribes me lenses/contacts that are slightly worse than optimal (i.e. -2.25 instead of -2.5) based on the fact that I stare at a computer screen the entire day. IIRC her explanation was along these lines, and I've had no degradation in eyesight in nearly a decade since. (I am not an optometrist, for god's sake find your own)

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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by krackers on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:34AM (#30112144)
You can get a separate intermediate distance pair specifically for computer use. If you're -2.25 then something like -1.25 would put optical infinity at 31 inches away allowing your eyes to be completely relaxed. I've got close to the same prescription and just prefer to keep my screen at 24" and increase the font size a bit, and I can see that just fine most days. I'm not sure if my brain has learned to deconvolve better, but around -2 is a sweet spot where you can definitely get away with not needing glasses at all for computer work if you try, considering that you're uncorrected plane is at 20 inches.
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by coryrc on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:13AM (#30111986)
Mine didn't and I also have not had any degradation in the last ten years.
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by walterbell on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:32AM (#30112127)
Everyone is different. It's unclear why some people benefit more from vision therapy than others.
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by carlmr on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:20AM (#30112034)
Same here.
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