Ask HN: Managing Myopia as a Developer

[theriddlr]

How do you manage myopia with 8+ hours of screen time a day?

Especially in a confined space (small homes in Europe, or offices) with no views to infinity.

Any special lenses to simulate distance like rendering the computer as a TV screen across a living room? Or a distance box (containing a photograph and stimulated at 20m distance) like at the optometrists' eye test.

Has anyone tried Endmyopia?

[macilacilove]

I work on such a project. It projects myopic defocus on the screen based on longitudinal chromatic aberration. The project is in pre-clinical stage. You can try it out at https://refractify.io/ . It is aimed at recreating the visual myopic defocus signal that makes lens based myopia control techniques work. There are some promising results on animal myopia models.

[theriddlr]

https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia...

[stealthcat]

Eat lutein supplements and get as much sunlight and barefoot grounding

[vhcr]

I got PRK surgery.

[theriddlr]

Me too (tomorrow), but it's addressing the symptom, not the cause. I'm at risk for open-angle glaucoma due to my long eyeballs.