The Rochester Eye & Laser Team
It’s finally arrived! The $650 VR headset to accompany the $500 gaming console / PC you bought / built four years ago has finally arrived! It is time to commence countless hours of immersive gaming experiences, gas station snacks and little-to-no sun exposure!
Go ahead, slip that bad boy on. These new games aren’t going to play themselves. But alas, there is one nemesis you must contend with before your first boss battle: your glasses.
Here are four reasons your glasses get in the way of very serious playtime.
1. Headache on goggles on glasses…
If you wear glasses then you likely have, at some point, experienced the tremendous discomfort of putting sunglasses over your eyeglasses. Now imagine this same principle except with the inevitable future of gaming, VR goggles. Depending on the pair, if it’s not plainly impossible, it’s likely to be highly uncomfy..
2. Your frames and your snacks aren’t friends
You’re a creature of habit. Us too. Eat. Sleep. Raid. Repeat. Unfortunately, while keeping the game going with necessary-but-evil convenience store fuel, the powdery cheese from your favorite snack isn’t just gumming up the action of your analog sticks. No, if you absent-mindedly push your glasses up the bridge of your nose, you run the risk of placing a gross, cheesy fingerprint right on your lens. Nice. Time to pause the game but wait — you can’t pause your MMO or MOBA because it’s live online!!
3. Not so groovy grooves
Here’s a familiar frustration: you finish a marathon gaming session (bonus points for livestreaming, espec. livestreaming without getting swatted), peel off your glasses for a well-deserved break, and as you walk around your roommates / SO / neighbors / the general public are looking at you funny. Or at least, you think they are (you can’t see them so good). Well, they are, and it’s because you have the deepest, reddest grooves stamped into the bridge of your nose. Rull cute. They’re sore too.
4. Can’t find glasses but…must…play…
You forgot your glasses at your friend’s house. You forgot your glasses upstairs (too far away). Your buddy pranked you and hid them. Or most likely, you got up and can’t find them in the morning because you set them down last night somewhere you don’t usually set them. Regardless of how, the glasses are gone. Unfortunately, you will not be of much of an asset during team’s weekly, scheduled play session. They’ll have to manage without a heavy. Jk, nobody can manage without a heavy. They’re screwed.
Yes, glasses are a pain during game time, but they’re also just a pain. If you haven’t considered it in a minute, maybe it’s time to reconsider the vision correction solution that dodges the hassles of contacts and glasses: LASIK. You can get tons of good information from Dr. Lindahl, MD and a Free LASIK Consultation.
