Does a person’s eyes pointing in different directions affect their eyesight (depth perception and field of vision for example)?
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I was born with strabism, which was later corrected via surgery when I was 4. I still have a bit of a drifting eye but you generally can’t tell unless I point it out.
My depth perception works differently to regular people. I do perceive depth, but not via eye parallax. I perceive it even with only 1 eye open. Which is also how my eye-sight works. It’s a bit hard to explain, but let me try:
I basically have a “dominant eye active” – this one gives me about 80% of my vision. The other just kinda fills in a little periphery. I can mentally “switch” which eye is the dominant one. I just think about it and it switches.
As to the depth perception itself – I do not really know how it works but I guess my brain just adjusted to deducing depth from the viewed image itself. I can play VR games no problem – I fully perceive them as “real, 3D” in front of me, they are as immersive as for anybody else.
I cannot watch 3D movies though. I do not perceive stereoscopic 3D vision (3D movies or those images you need red-blue filters for), it’s basically like if you were to try, but just with one eye open – doesn’t really do anything.
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