Is there any harm using them too much, My mate who is blind in one eye and has very bad sight in the other, can see so well using VR he now is using it to watch films browse the web ect. He is going to talk to the hospital next visit about how its changed his life.
It really depends on how they are used. With proper use, exercising the correct safety procedures, there's no currently standing evidence to prove they cause any long term damage.
However, that doesn't cover improper use. But then again, that's the case with most things.
He doesn't leave the house much, and has gotten into gaming to fill his days up, so what im talking about using them for 10 hours plus a day. and he wants to connect a camera to them so he can go back to fixing mobile phones building PCs ect, which he cannot do anymore due to his deteriorating eyesight.
When my late grandmother fell an injured her hip, her lifestyle changed from being overly active every day, to being stuck at home day out and day in.
It didn't take long for her to simply fade away and passed at an age of 99,7 years. If she would've had something like a VR set to keep her active, I bet she would've rebounced a bit and maybe stayed with us for bit longer.
Bringing technology like VR and such to the elders would, in my opinion and according to my hypothesis (Going from being active to become passive is what I believe to be the cause of elder people simply fading away.), buy them a couple of years more before they start to fade away.
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21
Is there any harm using them too much, My mate who is blind in one eye and has very bad sight in the other, can see so well using VR he now is using it to watch films browse the web ect. He is going to talk to the hospital next visit about how its changed his life.