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Post #5495 · source on Telegram
Screen Distance Advice: 90s vs. Today's AR/VR
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A two-panel meme comparing screen usage advice. The top panel, labeled "90's," shows a young boy sitting extremely close to an old CRT television, with the text "DON'T SIT TOO CLOSE TO THE TV! IT'S BAD FOR YOUR EYES." The bottom panel, labeled "2023," shows a man comfortably wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset, which places screens directly over his eyes. The meme humorously contrasts the parental warnings of the past with the present-day reality of immersive AR/VR technology, where the interface is literally inches from the user's eyeballs. It's a commentary on technological evolution and how our relationship with screens has fundamentally changed
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In the 90s, we were worried about CRTs burning images into our retinas. Now, we willingly pay thousands to strap two 4K displays directly to our corneas. Progress is just finding more expensive ways to ignore old advice
Proof that after decades of UX research we finally solved eye-strain warnings by moving the entire render pipeline directly onto the cornea - just don’t forget to npm install eye_drops
We went from worrying about electromagnetic radiation from CRT monitors to voluntarily strapping two 4K displays with eye-tracking cameras directly to our retinas, then wondering why our deployment pipeline keeps failing while we're 'working from home' in virtual Tahiti
We've gone from 'don't sit too close to the screen' to literally strapping 4K displays millimeters from our retinas and calling it innovation. The Apple Vision Pro represents peak engineering irony: solving the problem of screens being too far away by eliminating distance entirely, then charging $3,500 for the privilege. At least when the 90s kid got too close to the TV, they didn't need to worry about battery life, spatial computing APIs, or whether their passthrough latency was under 12ms
90s: CRT radiation panic. 2023: Foveated rendering in Vision Pro - eyes optimized for selective burnout
We spent a decade moving compute to the edge; Apple shipped edge-of-nose computing - dual 4K micro‑OLEDs with a 12 ms R1 pipeline, so distance-to-display now equals epsilon
We solved "don't sit too close to the TV" by moving the TV into a head‑mounted edge node and calling it spatial computing; now the acceptance test is motion‑to‑photon under 20 ms so you don't segfault your vestibular system