On 08/09/2019 12.08, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
Hi, I wear glasses for astigmatism etc and I wonder if it's possible
to buy a monitor whose screen can be adjusted for this & similar
conditions?

What a fascinating question, and excellent lateral thinking on your part!

(wikipedia is currently not working on my side, connection times out)


I thought I knew what astigmatism was, and just checked with wikipedia,
and it's a lot more complicated than I thought - so I'll go with my
original thought, that it means the lenses in your eyes mean you see the
world as either stretched or compressed vertically - circles appear as
ovals, and people appear either tall and thin or short and fat - and
your glasses correct for this. And you were wondering if it's possible
to find a monitor you can use without wearing your glasses.

This might be corrected by software designed to deform the display, yes.
But the deformation in the eye also means, I understand, that the focus
changes, and that can not be corrected in the display.

You'd have to ask optics experts first. If they say that a deformation
of the display could compensate for astigmatism, then start looking for
software to achieve that.

Methinks that the user would get a headache that way: part of the visual
field corrected and part not.

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Cheers, Carlos.