Years of gaming/computing taking a toll on your vision?

[AppleQueso]

I really have trouble believing that your eyes have to work harder to focus on a clearer, higher resolution image than they do on a blurrier lower resolution on. Eh.

Don't think I've ever gotten eyestrain from anything like that though. If I did, I usually took it as a sign that I probably needed to go to bed or something.

I imagine working overnight is probably far worse for my health overall than any amount of gaming or computer stuff I could do.

[J T]

Yes, I also don't think the muscles in your eyes are likely to get overused, it's more likely that the other muscles in your eyes get underused and then atrophy because you are always staring at the same thing at the same distance from your face. This is why it's recommended that you take frequent breaks away from your computer and look around at other distances. Look out a window and focus on things that are farther away.

[SteveyMajors]

I play video games and masturbate incessantly, and my vision is fine. I only use my glasses for driving.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I play video games and masturbate incessantly, and my vision is fine. I only use my glasses for driving.

But you have to shave your palms every week to avoid freaking people out amirite?

[SteveyMajors]

But you have to shave your palms every week to avoid freaking people out amirite?

Well, I let it grow out in the winter. Who needs gloves?

[elmagicochrisg]

videogames + eyesight

[chilimac]

I really have trouble believing that your eyes have to work harder to focus on a clearer, higher resolution image than they do on a blurrier lower resolution on. Eh.

Higher resolutions present smaller pixels that your eyes will have to work harder to focus on. Every time you move your eyes to a different location on your screen, they're having to refocus, which requires muscles to contract, and this slowly depletes them of acetylcholine. With higher resolutions (smaller pixels), your muscles are working harder to focus, which depletes your eyes of acetylcholine at a faster rate. Your body will recharge the levels of acetylcholine with sleep, but if you spend a lot of time looking at a high-res screen each day, you could end up depleting acetylcholine faster than your body can replenish it. This is becoming an even bigger problem today, now that people are spending their days at work staring at a computer and then coming home to play video games or watch TV on a high res screen. Now there is hardly any rest for our eyes during the day.

[AppleQueso]

Why would I be trying to focus on individual pixels on a hi-res screen?

Why is it different from the small dots that make up something like images in a printed magazine?

[elmagicochrisg]

Why is it different from the small dots that make up something like images in a printed magazine?

Or real life...

[Nemoide]

I got glasses and my first game system (Game Gear) at around the same time. I assume there isn't much of a connection for me?