{"id":106391,"date":"2016-10-06T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106391"},"modified":"2016-10-06T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:15:05","slug":"theres-one-concerning-reason-why-were-happy-to-only-get-vr-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/106391-theres-one-concerning-reason-why-were-happy-to-only-get-vr-next-year","title":{"rendered":"There’s one concerning reason why we’re happy to only get VR next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming recently reported <\/a><\/strong>on the news that the PlayStation VR and other VR headsets would only be making their way to South Africa some time in 2017.<\/p>\n

While it sucks that we won’t be able to check out arguably the biggest gaming release of 2016 for ourselves – that may actually be for the better.<\/p>\n

It turns out the headsets may not actually be very good for your eyes.<\/p>\n

Laser eye surgeon Dr. David Allamby of London\u2019s Focus Clinic is extremely apprehensive about what VR could stir up with eye problems, reports PlayStation Lifestyle<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“With virtual reality headsets about to experience a real boom, we are setting up the next generation of gamers for some potentially serious eye problems,” said Allamby.<\/p>\n

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“Parents and younger people need to know the risks. With VR, we\u2019re going to potentially see more and more people suffering from a lack of exposure to daylight \u2013 something which affects the way our eyes naturally grow and which can lead to short-sightedness, or myopia.”<\/p>\n

“And because VR prevents our eyes from naturally focusing at a far distance, this too can speed-up the progression of myopia.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On the bright side, these issues could be found and addressed before the headsets reach South African shores.<\/p>\n

If that’s not the case, at the very least we will know what we’re getting ourselves into later next year.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the bright side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8585,11681],"tags":[16735,143,71,2163],"class_list":["post-106391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gadgets","category-playstation","tag-ps-vr","tag-release","tag-sony","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106407,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106391\/revisions\/106407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}