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Is a career in visual effects bad for eye health?

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Within a year of starting visual effects work I needed glasses? Maybe I would have anyway, but I'm sure staring close up at a 30" screen all day doesn't help. What can be done to make my eyes better, or stop the rot? Are there any guidelines on monitor use, and should there be any pressure or enforcement on facilities to provide eye tests or insurance?

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dbr [ Editor ]

The Wikipedia page on myopia is interesting - there's no concrete link between computer screens and the main cause of "eye problems"

If anything, at least we generally have decent, well calibrated monitors - not cheap TFT displays with the brightness/contrast at 100% and a dodgy flickering backlight, as I'm sure you'd find in many offices..

Regardless of the cause of eye problems, the "V" in "VFX" stands for "visual" - seems like it'd be in a companies interest to make sure it's employee's eyes are in decent condition..

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