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I feel like I have spectacular eyes. I can read absurdly small texts that shocks other people, great low light, yada yada.

The quest2 made my eyes hurt after just using it for maybe half an hour. Tried it a few times over several weeks and decided that my vision is worth more than some entertainment.

I'm not sure how they're going to get around that aspect.

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The Quest 2 has minimal inter-pupillary distance (IPD) adjustment — only three fixed options. If your eyes don’t match closely enough to one of them, it can be very uncomfortable. Mine don’t, and I have the same experience as you, but I can put up with it for short bursts. More expensive headsets have much better lenses and adjustment options. It’s not an inherent problem with VR, just concessions to make a cheap device.

Just to note, Quest 3 has significantly improved on it and has granular IPD adjustments now.

Ive work vr googles over 20 hours without issues. Are you sure youre not having dry eyes? I cant do it as long after ive had lasik

It's not dry eyes but more the 'muscles' in the eye that feel fatigued. I don't remember if it's from focusing or moving the actual eyeball around in an attempt to see edges of the screen instead of moving my head.

I’m short sighted and have been using VR for close too if not on a decade and have never experienced this. I spend entire days in VR and I’m completely fine with it.

Never had that personally and I regularly code (or at least interact with code) in VR

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