July 27, 201312 yr Author To sum it all up, guys. I'm not one to sit in front of my dedicated flight sim computer for hours on end. Usually just a quick flight and off because, simply, I have other and better things to do. In fact, I limit my entire computer usage to probably less than a couple of hours a day, all tolled, and that includes checking email, etc., even watching TV (yuck). My eyesight is important to me, and I find the more I use the headtracking software (and I can't imagine flight simming without it now), the less I notice any side effect on my vision other than a little eyestrain, which I get whether it's reading a computer or a book. I think the eyestrain comes simply from the fact that when you have more places to look more easily, you look more. It's so easy to glance around the cockpit, out the window, around the window post, down at the floor and up at the ceiling without flicking a hat switch or pressing a button. One way of looking at it is you virtually go from holding your head still and moving the plane to holding the plane still and moving your head. That's the big switch in perspective. So... sim on.
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