No way, the Benq goes back next week too, consumer protection here i come.
Eye strain, foggy mind and what I found behind it
be our guinea pig and try one of the lightboost/gsync monitors.
i like the idea of sensory overload. I have some color blindness, which implies divergent levels of of rods and cones. this maybe leads to 'early clipping' of different (blue) wavelengths, and a 'staring at the sun' feeling. This explains why I get it from looking at a single led
like these buttons. they look perfectly nice and glowy in real life, but 'clip' the camera https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--5q1jTuab--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_620,q_90,w_620/v1469036363/vwevinxbxk1foced251t.jpg
Just found a little bit of improvement; i'm turning on all the lamps in the room, this way the effect is a little bit less hard. Maybe. I need to play around some more.
But anyway interesting, as the idea i got; how could i close my pupils somehow, so they don't gather that much intensity? Light makes it so, so then, let there be light.
From Benq i got an answer about the backlight they use in their monitors, but of course this alone has nothing to do with my problem.
Anyway, today i just made the contact with consumer protection regarding the issue, let's see how it goes.
Just contacted nVidia, let's see what they say, however i don't expect anything useful, since the thing is some sort of a great secret, which is probably due to "money dictates". If not, then why all this?
Doesn't matter, i'll also try maybe Microsoft; maybe it is somewhere deep in DirectX itself, as for SW side.
tsb Good luck with a response.
In my experience this issue is also happening on other devices and platforms, it's not just a Windows 10 problem (if only).
We have a Samsung LED smart TV from 2017 which will display video from our Tivo V6 box just fine - however I've noticed the minute I switch over to a 4K channel with our cable provider, or stream a Netflix video in 4k either from the cable provider's stb or the Samsung Netflix app, I get similar 'dithering' eye strain after a few minutes. It seems OK with SD/HD content.
Maybe it's the push for HDR that is causing this? Perhaps new devices switch temporal dithering on when a 4k/HDR source is sent to it?
nVidia began with the same basic stuff, light blue light and what not, i think i just pass on them. I'm pretty sure one can not get a useful answer from them "big companies".
I was playing a bit with contrast/brightness/gamma settings and actually found that nothing improves with those. However i also noticed what i forgot to mention; there is also some sort of super-hyper crispiness in all these images rendered, or even the monitor screens, where content edges occur as contrast. Interestingly, altogether this looks really sharp, but not only that, but also gives the "objects" some kind of depth; one could also say some sort of pseudo-VR-feeling popping from the screen. Problem is, then, if i try to focus on the edges/contrast of these kind of content, for example some bright stuff on a black background, i loose focus; i.e. my eyes are not able to properly focus on them. That's another easy way to detect such a technique to be present.
That is a decent way to describe it.
Makes sense and is most likely caused by this issue with your eyes and related depth perception problems - https://green-club.eu/wp-content/uploads/CET-51114-Investigating-and-managing-heterophoria-.pdf
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tsb Doesnt matter, its been discussed here a million times with no clear reason found. Simply new tech is different, but you only notice it if you have specific eye issues. At least in my case it was so. I dont have time in my life to figure out why that is so, as this has been going for years now. I was looking for a cure and this was it.
martin I found a source for 3M stick-on prisms. Did you try these? https://opticalproductsonline.com/index.php/category-listing/product/428-3m-press-on-prism-1-00
reaganry Thanx but actually i have no idea what are those 
I mean, if it is really an eye issue, then i better go first to visit a doc to narrow it down to my specific thing.
This week probably consumer protection will kick in; i'll definitely continue with them, because i simply cannot accept that new stuff (but not OLED) make such things to us and not to mention what then with people without issues. Or will this be again the same as many times before, that after some years comes a study finding it harmful on long term use, or whatever.
reaganry No and I would not. It needs to be precisely crafted for your own specific case. Otherwise it might do more harm than good.
tsb Pretty much yes. I have two more months of visual therapy left, but I have almost no symptoms by now. I can use my iphone 7 all day (in the past I had migraine after 10 mins). I was working on some friends 2018 macbooks and hopefully will be able to use one for regular everyday work soon. I need to wear glasses as one eye is weaker therefore the heterophoria is more pronounced (system prefers the sharper eye). You need to see a real and good optometrist.
Also if you do training, you have to have patience and discipline. Ive been told that by training as much as I did, I even overcompensated the problem by another 20 points, which was supposedly never seen before and is a useful reserve.