Poll: Glasses?

[Anton P. Nym]

I'd classify myself as a heavy gamer, and so far no glasses/contacts/whatever. I do switch up between PC and console, though, which does make for a bit of a change in focal lengths and that may help keep the ol' eyeballs limber.

-- Steve

 

[Necrohydra]

It's not much of a surprise that heavy gaming causes short sightedness now is it?

You have any data to back that up? Because I wasn't a heavy gamer as a kid, and my sight has been deteriorating fairly consistently up until I turned 20 or so. The optometrist tells me my sight's stabilizing now, or at least it's not getting so bad that I need a new perscription every 2 years, like I did as kid/teenager. Oh, and I think it's safe to say I gamed as frequently, if not more, in college than I did as in middle/high school. If anything, I stare at a computer screen much more now than I did back then. I find my eye condition to be dependant on several factors, not just how much I play games in one week.

You might think I took that a little too seriously, but it's thinking like this that causes people to make incorrect associations. Like video games make us all violent people, for instance.

 

[Omnidum]

I do not use glasses, and is playing way too much games.

 

[Doug]

I've worn glasses since I was about 10, when I was spotted in a routinue primary school eye-test, although it was fairly obvious in hindsight that I had a problem with my far-vision (After all, when it takes you 3 times longer to copy stuff down from the board because your having to run up and look at it before returning to your seat, there is something wrong, heh). Anywho, I did try lense's, but after few years, decided to stop wearing them as they were uncomfortable.

As for gamer, I put Heavy, although my pattern of play varies lot as it goes though stages of activity.

 

[fix-the-spade]

I had glasses before gaming. Blame a tree and a high speed impact.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Heavy gamer, near-sighted with 20/40 vision.

 

[Erana]

My question is:
What are the actual percentages of people with eye problems?

 

[Anarchemitis]

I don't think that gaming and glasses are really co-related. Although I could be very wrong, as following posts will likely show.

 

[fyrh56]

Heavy gamer, glasses, nearsighted, although i started wearing glasses before i became an heavy gamer. I actually have been getting better. When i got my drivers license i was required by law to wear glasses while driving, whereas now i don't.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Wearing glasses since age 10. And that's before there was such a thing as home computers. As do all the rest of my family, some strict non-gamers in there.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

maybe its something to do with the glasses that makes people a heavy game, has anyone though of that huh?

and no i dotn have glasses, on the cusp of heavy 20/20 vision

 

[standokan]

i can't see far so at home i wear my glasses all day long, especially when gaming it makes it Xtra sharp.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Damn standokan, that's one hell of a gravedig, you must be very bored.

OT: Heavy gamer, far-sighted.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Heavy gamer, no glasses. Although glasses wouldn't help me see better, they would help me look better, if irony is your thing.

Also; good thing I was wearing my seatbelt, because that was one hell of a bump.

 

[Andalusa]

I only need to wear my glasses when reading or on the computer, I never do.
I know I should but I forget.

 

[Sevre]

Wearing my glasses right now, I'm nearsighted although I couldn't tell you whether I'm heavy or light because it fluctuates from week to week.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Full time glasses (or, more usually, contact lenses) wearer. -3 vision in both eyes ;_;

Also, heavy gamer, as well as long time warhammer painter and played a ton of handhelds. Both require a lot more eyestrain than a normal TV gamer.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Gamer no glasses. Not much else to say

 

[Acaroid]

Heavy gamer and crazy good eyes sight...

 

[Camarilla]

Heavy gamer, glasses, short-sighted.

Although, to be fair, my bad eyesight is hereditary, and started when I was 11 or 12, long before I became a heavy gamer.