Does anyone know of some good program for eye training. I would like to try to become a little less near-sighted by straining to make out things which are at the edge of my range of good vision. I know near-sighted means my eyeball is squashed, but I am hoping my brain can fix a bit of the distortion in software. Currently I am doing random printed out eye charts, and I have gotten a bit better over time, but printing out the charts is tedious.
About 20⁄50, I don’t know if that can be unambiguously converted to diopters. I measure by performance by sitting at a constant 20 feet away and when I am over 80% correct I shrink the font on the chart a little bit. I can currently read a slightly smaller font than what corresponds to 20⁄50 on an eye chart.
Eye training programs train eye muscles, it’s not an issue of fine-tuning “brain software”. You can train your eye muscles to compensate, somewhat, but the downside is that if you’re e.g. just tired or stressed your vision degrades back to baseline.
Does anyone know of some good program for eye training. I would like to try to become a little less near-sighted by straining to make out things which are at the edge of my range of good vision. I know near-sighted means my eyeball is squashed, but I am hoping my brain can fix a bit of the distortion in software. Currently I am doing random printed out eye charts, and I have gotten a bit better over time, but printing out the charts is tedious.
An acquaintance runs http://eye-track.me/ for measuring vision
How nearsighted are you (in diopters)?
About 20⁄50, I don’t know if that can be unambiguously converted to diopters. I measure by performance by sitting at a constant 20 feet away and when I am over 80% correct I shrink the font on the chart a little bit. I can currently read a slightly smaller font than what corresponds to 20⁄50 on an eye chart.
So that’s fairly minor myopia.
Eye training programs train eye muscles, it’s not an issue of fine-tuning “brain software”. You can train your eye muscles to compensate, somewhat, but the downside is that if you’re e.g. just tired or stressed your vision degrades back to baseline.
Not only muscles directly at the eye but also at the back of the head.