Ocular question

In My Humble Opinion
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Say you went blind in one eye, and technology became sophisticated enough to replace it with a robotic one that interfaces with your nerve directly. The doctor offers you two options: a regular eye that you can see normal wavelengths with, OR an infrared eye which allows you to see the infrared spectrum. Keep in mind, this is only one eye, so what you see would most likely be a composite of regular vision and infrared vision.

Personally, I’d probably take the IR eye. Partly because of the geekiness, and partly because of other applications. I could see better in the dark, I could see when objects are hot, and so on and so forth. On the other hand, I’d be giving up depth perception, but since I had presumably only been living with one eye for awhile, that wouldn’t be much of a problem. And if I was in a situation where I didn’t want to see in IR, I could just close one eye, or put a patch over it for that sexy pirate look.

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Well, I AM blind in one eye* and I’d go for regular vision. IR would most likely be too distracting. Also, what would you use it for? Ok, you can see in the dark. So what? You can buy googles to do that.

Also, the whole depth perception thing is really important. The first year after I lost my vision anything on the right hand side of my body was likely to get destroyed. I knocked stuff over, hit people, ran into stuff. Not alot of fun. Even today I have issues with parking in tight spots due to the lack of depth perception. Pulling into my one car garage every night still bugs me. I always think I am going to take out the side of it. I’m better about it than I used to be but still can’t catch things very well.

I had to wear a patch for 3 or 4 months. The ‘sexy pirate look’ doesn’t actualy work. I know.

Slee

  • I have some perirphrial** vision. Not much but some.

**Did I spell that right? Too tired to spell check.