This question is more geared towards folks that may suspect BVD (Binocular Vision Disorder) is the more likely root cause of their woes (i.e. it's not the monitor; it's you!)
I've had my symptoms for over 12 years now, and did binocular vision therapy back in 2012 for a year for CI (Convergence Insufficiency) and AI (Accommodative Spasm/Insufficiency). It improved my symptoms, and I credit it to saving my IT career. I am back in another 6-month round of vision therapy as of March 2025 to work on more peripheral stuff instead. I'm getting pretty symptomatic 6 weeks in with dizziness and jumpy vision, and I'm looking for some sort of hack or workaround to try to make getting through each work week easier.
Has anybody ever tried using their TV as their computer monitor and sitting several feet away?
I just want to know if this has worked for anybody here to avoid the hassle of making and trying such a change. One thing I could never quite figure out is that I would never seem to have problems with TVs, only computer monitors, or other devices within an arm's length distance away. Has anyone ever noticed this paradox that looking at displays in the distance never seems to give them nearly as many problems? Aren't modern day computer monitors and TVs essentially similar in their manufacturing aside from the much larger screen size with the latter?
To make a theory behind this, perhaps the brain is unhappy with some of the input it is getting from both eyes within 2 feet away, but it's less noticeable to it from a distance. You know how they recommend the 20/20/20 rule to rest your eyes by looking in the distance and allowing the eyes to relax? Well, would sitting 10 feet away all the time from the display make one's eyes fairly relaxed when reading a good majority of the time? I would imagine it would at least help folk with convergence insufficiency.
Again, this is more geared for the BVD folk out there. This week I learned that you can have BVD issues even though your eyes look aligned, as there are more subtle forms of it.