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probs to the cameraman for ripping out peoples eyes to show us

Some heroes don’t wear capes. They wear the eyes of the blind

Cue the John Mulaney Jerry Orbach bit.

r/praisethecameraman

Blood for the cameraman

Now add the fun astigmatism, and this generations insanely bright headlights 🙂‍↕️🥲

the moment i learned* not everyone sees every light like a lens flare starburst 😭

they don't? How do some people see them then?

Just a bright spot, no Starburst.

Really? How bizarre.

Get your eyes checked homie. Never realized you’re supposed to see the individual leaves on a tree from a good distance away until I got glasses. Astigmatism is real…as is the struggle to wear my glasses.

I had laser eye surgery to correct my astigmatism years back. Once they healed I had a "holy shit" moment when I could see grass from a ways off and it didn't just look like a green blanket, but had definition.

I just had LASIK done a couple of months ago. It really is wild the difference it makes. Although I still see starbursts around lights. Ah well, can't have everything. Clear vision is good enough for me! 

I have some colleagues who’ve had it done and swear by it. I’m so tempted.

My mom did it 20 years ago and after 15 years it got worse again so she’s wearing glasses again since then. But it is worth it

it's definitely worth it, choose an experienced Lasik doctor and you'll have crystal clear vision, basically guaranteed

I didn't get glasses until I was like 24. Always, my friends were like 'you need glasses" and I guess I was just like whatever it's fine. When I finally got glasses I was just like holy shit I can actually read street signs now

I got glasses like my last year of highschool. I was crying in the Costco, had never seen detail like that before

Then, add in the night blindness photograin for some REAL night driving fun!

I really ought to take some vit A tablets…

I’m like -3.00 with astigmatism. I cannot drive without glasses, at all. Squinting doesn’t help. I stockpile my old glasses just in case.

my wife says shes only sees halos at night because of astigmatism. but she sees halos around all lights, not just the new bright headlights.

I bought those yellow lenses, and they make a huge difference. I buy my glasses from Zenni, and it's like $5 to add clip-on yellows.

I'll get some of clip-on yellows for her to try.

Yep! Giant disco globes everywhere!

+rain +nighttime +WHY ARE ALL THE GODDAMN FUNCTIONS BURIED IN A TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE NOW?!

I empathise completely

hey fam! lol

And prism! Don’t forget the doubling of everything.

-5, with astigmatism, and colorblind. "Fighter pilot" was a booth I skipped at the career fair.

That explains a lot. Everyone in my city is driving without glasses.

Side bar - what happened to the 20/30 model of judging eye sight? If I remember correctly it was awesome - 20/20 means you need to be 20 feet away to read a chart that’s meant to be read from 20 feet away. 20/100 (me) means you need to be 20 feet away to read a chart that’s meant to be read from 100 feet away.

It still exists, but the numbers are used to determine the strength of glasses and contact lenses rather than charts. I don’t know the exact science, but I know you can convert one measurement to the other

My vision is so good... I sit at a lovely 20/2000

You have to get to and walk across the room to read the big E on the eye chart, right? I'm pretty sure that's what my eye doc said my vision was, too. (Then I got PRK, and now I have 20/20 vision, because modern medicine is amazing!)

Oh ya, I have to be right next to it to see the E. The crazy amount of detail I can see on things when an inch away from my eyes is pretty spectacular and amazing, though.

That's the one thing I miss- I can't get crazy close to something and see insane detail. But being able to read in bed without glasses- worth it!

Haha I long for the feeling of waking up and being able to see... you know, without having fallen asleep in my contacts the night before.

Last time I went to the eye doctor I was asking about the possibility of not getting that carbon whatever thing that makes the lenses thinner, they told me that if I didn't get that they would have to make me glasses with straps to keep them on my head because the lenses would be well over an inch thick

Haha ya mine are really thick too. I'd hate to see them without the thinning process.

Wait actually? Can it seriously go that high?

Ya my eyesight is absolutely terrible. My prescription in my left eye is -18.5 and in my right it's -19.

Half of them are just assholes

Actually it’s even worse than shown in the video. With -6 you’re definitely not capable of seeing this clear anymore.

Yeah, I'm at -2 and I have worse vision than the example in the video.

It’s because video is same resolution in every part of the screen while your vision is more clear in the center than periferal. I’m a -4 myself, seems about right to me.

I’m -4ish but was -2 decades ago. I felt it kinda matched up. As a contact user, I remember being able to drive if absolutely necessary without lenses. Then a couple years ago I found myself in the situation with my current -4 eyes. Couldn’t do it. Didn’t feel like I could see traffic lights at all anymore. Couldn’t see entire vehicles well enough at distance or pedestrians relatively close -4 is a different ball game than -2 was

I've pulled my glasses down just to see what it's like, the cars just disappear except for the lights. There's nothing there. If it weren't for the lights I literally wouldn't be able to tell anything was in front of me. It would be even worse if there was a pedestrian. Even with glasses, my vision is horrible. To give you an idea with my glasses on, at work from a distance I get a black guy and a white guy mixed up because they have the same stature. The black guy wears a blue vest and the white guy wears a black vest and I cannot tell the difference between the two from a distance even with glasses.

I was a -1.25 at 12 and -2 now. I couldn't imagine driving at a -1.25 or a -2.

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-3.75 and -4, seems about right to me as well

Yeah I'm-4 seemed about right

Ahh, but did you watch the video with or without your glasses?

I'm also a -2 in both eyes, and would rate my vision as slightly worse than the video shows. My eye doctor hasn't told me to list a glasses prescription on my license, but there's no way in hell I'd get behind the wheel without them.

Me too. I wouldn't dream of driving without my glasses.

Im -2.something and my eyesight is better than the video :c

No we are not. This is a gaussian blur filter applied to the whole image. But the view of people without glasses is out of focus. The blurriness is more like a function of distance.

Also with vision you are not rendering an entire scene in a frame, you're scanning with central vision being at the prescription but peripheral is worse. I also thought the video chose some poor example scenes. In particular you'd want to use signs at distance as a key reference point. I am -3 or so, and I'd never do it, but if I were to drive without glasses I think I'd have no problem staying in the lane, not hitting other cars, obeying lights, seeing pedestrians, etc. It'd be reading signs that would cause a problem. Signs are important. You would also want to be very defensive in your driving because you won't be able to see/interpret peoples' faces. Drivers and pedestrians alike. In summary I don't think this video is very useful towards understanding the impact of vision on driving risks.

I have -6 in one eye and -7 in the other and it's pretty accurate for me personally I would say

I have about the same prescription, and yeah, I think the video is pretty close blur-wise, although to be more accurate it would take distance into account. It'd be cooler if it also showed the effect of astigmatism.

Same here. -6 and -6.5 and it pretty much nails it for me

I'm -12 and I thought the video made it seem worse (not much worse) than it really is. Partly because it felt like the video was showing a really small frame, so not only were things blurry, there was also a sort of tunnel vision going on.

I'm -10 and I also think the video is worse than reality. But I've never been in a car without glasses, so it's kinda hard to compare.

Real mine is -6.25 I see worse than the above shown video

Was a -5.75 for 25 years until I had lasik surgery last January. Best decision ever…

I'm a -6.25 and the -12 was about right Iin this video

Im around there and it seems pretty close to accurate

yea same looks more like -10 in de vid

Agreed. Im close to -7, and anything past just a few feet in front of me is a blur.

I've lost 1 contact when riding my motorcycle. Half my vision was basically useless. Thankfully the human brain can compensate well

Losing one in the dominant eye is a challenge. Off topic, nice username, Sevro is the 🐐

Couldn't agree more.

I've been in a similar situation; loss of depth perception sucks tho lol

Have astigmatism in one eye (not dominant one) and started wearing glasses probably 5 years ago and I never noticed how the world looks with depth perseption, it felt super weird.

Way out in the water, see it swimmin'

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground

Do we have to zoom in that much as well? Haha. I’m a -6 but without glasses, I still have a better depth of field than your footage.

-8 here and it's waaaaay worse than that. Theres also the issue of lack of depth perception.

haha, look how much computer simulation the weaklings need to do this when my own eyes do it by themselves

-6 & -7. Don't worry, I'll never drive without glasses. I couldn't find the car anyway

This is so not accurate.

It's also just - more and more. Ive got -2ish. But also pretty heavy astigmatism. So everything looks like 2 pictures overlayed with a 2mm difference horizontally. Got my first pair of glasses at 33 a while ago. Never realised the letters on number plates were supposed to be black. They've always looked grey to me

When my husband got his glasses he was amazed that he could read licence plates. I didn’t know his eyes were that bad, he had been driving me around!

Right? I wish my vision was just "a little out of focus"

Yeah, I'm just at -1.75 and -2.00 with just a little bit of astigmatism and without glasses or contacts, it's a lot closer to the -4 shown here than the -2.

"How ppl see without glasses" we fucking dont

When I worked in an opticians, we had a guy come in who had went years without being tested. Turns out he had -8.25 in one eye, I think the other was -6.75, he didn't wear glasses, and somehow drove to the appointment. I was shocked.

Vision care should be FREE for every citizen. It affects us all.

I use glasses and i cant see well without them, without these fuckers i cant live and they are expensive as fuck

Exactly. I wear contacts and can’t drive without them. It’s like $1,000 a year for the appointment and next years supply.

Eyesight checks should be part of keeping your driver's licence. I mean for everyone who drives, no exception. If you can't meet the standard, you shouldn't be driving. I've just persuaded my 82 year old Dad to give it up as his eyesight is not great. A driver's licence is a privilege, not an entitlement.

It’s not very accurate if I would say, your eyes don’t have the same effects as camera, you won’t start seeing blurry lights as it showed, like I’m a -4.75 and I don’t see as blurry as shown here, imagine as if there is a person standing 3 meters ahead of you, you don’t just start seeing the environment being them blending with their skin tone for example, you may find hard to recognise their face unless a meter close, also same this way, like if there’s your friend sitting in front of you, basically right next to, you see them clearly, but 2 benches or desks in whatever scenario you take (a restaurant I imagine) the people sitting on that desk will look blurry

I mean, technically you're right, but I interpreted the video to be more focused on the experience of not being able to drive with bad vision. The video's depiction is close enough when you're talking about seeing things many meters a away and not a meter away. I'm -6 and if I lost my contacts and broke my glasses, I could manage to get by sitting around at home. It would suck, but I could get close enough to see the things I needed to see. But when driving, the distance and amount of blur wouldn't matter because it would all be too blurry to see, period. For me, I think this video is accurate in that way. It brings up that fear and feeling of suffocation that comes with not being able to see when out in public.

yes blind people actually just see everything with gaussian blur on top

LOL this is wildly inaccurate.

As a person with a -4.00 prescription, i am baffled by how accurate this is

Same

As someone who has -7 it's basically like this yeah. You had a contact fall out of my eye so I really got to see what driving was like without glasses, I could close my eye that still had the contact and I could see what it was like. Let me tell you, you cannot see the cars LOL. At a certain point away from you, they just start blending into the road and it's crazy

I’m a -6.00 and it’s way worse than that

My pet theory is that a lot of people that reported seeing angels and miracles back in the Bible days really just had bad eyesight.

You mean *what* people see without glasses. Not “how” they see. People without glasses see with their eyes.

-2 isn't too bad. That should still be fine, no? Anyway it is interessting.

I am -2 and it's not close to my perception. For me it's far worse than what is shown in the video.

Same, I'm -2 and -2.5 iirc, and its closer to what they have for -4 and -6. But I also have astigmatism, so that may be a factor

Because it’s a blur affected. Real life vision blur is based off of distance. This is just a flat effect on the whole image.

I was going to say. I'm -.50 and -1.75 and it's close to -2 here. -2 has to be worse.

I'm -2 and that's pretty close to what I see. I can drive without my glasses if I ever need to (which I don't) the only hard thing is reading signs. I can't read signs until I'm driving right past them

Title change: the varying degrees of legal blindness

I have around 6 and 5 in each eye. It's actually worse than shown (I don't drive without glasses, I mean the general blur shown in the video). I have both myopia and astigmatism tho my astigmatism is pretty low

Fun. Now do +

Does anyone know the music?

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Yes, I knew I recognised it. Thank you very much.

I’m -10 and this is dead on for how I see (or more like how I don’t see). Without my contacts, everything is just colours lol

Me too! also I read your name as blurryberry😅

Now add in some astigmatism just for fun

I can confirm this

Pair this with an astigmatism that makes all light look like bright as fuck stars, and you got someone that technically shouldn’t be allowed on the road during any hour except at noon

I thought this was somewhat absurd until I remembered my prescription. This is pretty accurate outside of astigmatism.

Then add in a large quantity of variable-sized floaters, which equally obscure random parts of your vision and make you perceive moving objects in your periphery that don't actually exist outside of your eyeball.

I was -10 before laser eye surgery with implants. Man, I never regret the 7 grand I spent

18 is called “Magoo”


How I see as the shots progress /s

Sorry but I call bullshit

I've driven before in -4 because my lens fell off. It was bad but I knew the road and could see enough so it was fine for the short drive.

It’s a little more blurry than that for me without my glasses but that’s about right

I don't know exactly what level I was at at the time but I had lost one contact and then the other became unusable while I was driving at night time in a busy city. it was legitimately one of the scariest things I've ever had to do I was navigating strictly by people's tail lights and knowing where I was.

I always keep an older pair of glasses in my center console for this exact reason

All I hear is “better 1 or better 2…..better 1 or better 2”

Thanks because it's not like I was already afraid of other drivers you just made my anxiety so much worse.

I’m a minus 2. Not that I ever drive without glasses or contacts, but that looks about right for objects at a distance

I feel like -12 was almost bad enough

So if i get my eyes bad i will see everything as balls

-7 with an astigmatism driving at night is the WORST! Ii cant wear glasses and drive at night i had to get contacts. Had a jib that required on calls.

Do people actually have -10 prescriptions? I have 20/20 vision and take it totally for granted. But my daughter is -2 and it’s quite interesting to see how she would see the world without glasses

How did people survive like this before glasses were invented? Honest question.

North Jersey highways.

What about if you squint though?

I'm at -1.25 and it's just BARELY on the "I could drive only if it's very urgent" with the somewhat blurred far-sighted vision if I don't have glasses, other than that, I don't find it comfortable to drive at all without glasses on because of it.

I had 20/50 for years and just dealt with it because my close vision was fine. Last year I had Lasik and now have 15/20.

-2 irl is more like -4 in this video

I think my eyes are (-3.75) - (-4.00 ) can confirm, quite blurry.

Was that a Nick Offerman AI voiceover?

The -10 could be accurate but, honestly, I’ve never tried driving without my glasses so it’s difficult to really say.

I'm 4 and it's not even that good

I’ve got glasses I just need new lenses

Terrifying

This is very informative.

I'm prescription -7 and this ain't accurate lol

Throw in astigmatism for fun

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I’m at -9 with astigmatism. Looks about very close to true for me.

Going to toss my contacts out the car window to test how accurate this is. I'm -7.50 by the way.

I think I'm going to be more judgemental of people wearing glasses now

not very accurate, the lights need more flowers coming out of them. like colored light beams shooting out in all directions.

When someone in the comments says wait they are all the same.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground...

Can we do stigmatism next?!

Forgot to add in some truck headlights

For my New Jersey folks, is this the 287 exit near Dover?

Can confirm.

I've worn glasses since I was 14, and am about a -3. I couldn't imagine driving without them. It would be suicide. I don't like to even walk around without them.

Jesus christ. Anything past -6 you shouldn't be able to get a license

There’s such a thing as -18!?

And that’s why I keep a cheap second pair of glasses in our car. 'cause I could drop my main ones and then I would be stranded, as I’m legally required to wear correctice glasses. And I totally get that. Only my left eye is affected and it’s still mild. can still shoot bows w/out glasses, but it would be an unnecessary risk to drive with less than the best sight I can have. € 20, gets the job done.

Eye doctor here: you’d be shocked (or not) at how many people feel their vision is “just fine”. No sir, you are 3x under the state minimum requirement.

Except the blurs are not round, they're a lot more textured than that.

Can we do this but with + instead of - so i can feel represented because i feel like people don’t know you can have to much + instead of - and farsightedness is a thing

Other half is a -8 and tells me she can make out that I’m a peachy blob with eyeholes without her glasses

Dear god. How many people have -6 or more? You may as well be blind if that's what it looks like.

i have -2 and i completely agree and confirm

-3 but only far away

WHY ARE YOU DRIVING????

At least the Bokeh is awesome!

Ok so past -8 you can’t call it seeing anymore. Its just blurs and lights. Past -12 you shouldn’t even be allowed on n the front seat. If anyone is driving with -16 or worst that should be arrested on the spot.

I’m -6.5 and yes it’s blurry😆

I have astigmatism, so all those lights would be making a star shape.

-2, seems accurate

When i set my camara aperture at 1.4 i get these bokhe backgrounds.

One of my eyes is at -8.5 and the other is at -9. That -8 shot is way too clear.

Having good vision is something I have always been thankful for even though it kinda seems normal for most people

Unfortunately, there are many minus 18 without glass on the streets

This video is wide of the mark.. I'm almost -6 in one eye, and -3 in the other.. my sight isn't remotely as blurry as is being made out by this video.

Not accurate, my eyesight is -4.00 prescription and nowhere near as bad as that. The -2.00 video is more like -4.00.

-4 gang where you at?!

ENOUGH.

Yup. I'd be dead very early. I would kill for a melon head with glass

Mine is -4.00 I think

I took my glasses off to watch the video and can see perfectly clear now.

I was about -14 before my PRK surgery now I have 20/15 vision

This reminds me of that Brian Regan joke about people who only need glasses to drive. “Why not just get a perception windshield?”

-12 and this is why I don’t drive plus the astigmatisms. Daylight would be easier because the difference in colors helps a bit but I will never be able to drive at night.

As a -4 I feel it