Short-sightedness is a very common problem and yet no solution to prevent this transformation of human eyes has been found although reasons why it occurs seem pretty obvious. People now(20th/21thcentury) living in cities have to use their eyes for reading (school, university....) handwork what stimulate the eyes to grow in length to compensate the disuse of far seeing. Studies have shown that chinese people before industrialization ( as they lived on land) had much better eyes than now living in cities and getting educated. (80% got short sightenend!!!
)(in germany about 50% are visually impaired). Furthermore studies with natural folks have confirmed that people living in nature have much better eyes than people in modern countries.I have made the experience that looking at a monitor for many,many hours daily or reading extensively can make eyes worse in less than a half year with a dioptre increase at about 0,5. i have to wear reading glasses now to prevent my eyes to grow more and more. for me the reason why people are getting short sightened seems very clear. Go out and use your eyes for the distance.
Here is where the Rift appears as the saving white knight. I know that my eyes cant be improved anymore, but there are many more younger generations (myopia starts in youth) to come who would very likely benefit from the Rifts quality to go out for some hours and use and train the eyes for distance seeing. i am pretty confident that humanity could benefit from the Rift in this regard.
I have yet not used a Rift but from reading i understood that the Rift has the major benefit of glancíng at the horizont although resolution is not that high. But i guess in future it will be much higher, thus much better to
focus at far objects.
