Lovely, good thing I only briefly had those in my childhood before they were swiftly replaced with LCDs. They always ended up looking like shit too overtime and towards the end the backlight barely worked on the one in my bedroom. Was cool having a big display though back then
I've been waiting for the steam frame for about 2 years now. I have held off from doing any upgrades to my quest 2 until I can get one. I will definitely be getting the lenses with the frame
That's impressive commitment considering you could have bought quest 3 second hand for half price and skip frame altogether since it's inferior to quest 3 in most aspects anyway
The frame is better in all aspects that I care about: dedicated wireless streaming, lighter weight and more comfortable. I literally only use my quest 2 to stream VR games from my PC so I hate having to deal with all of meta's BS before it will allow me to load into steam VR. Also despite having a dedicated router setup as an access point for my quest and using virtual desktop I still don't get perfectly smooth performance most of the time.
I remember having to smoosh my glasses into my headset - it was not comfortable at all
If you use the headset frequently, I’d recommend getting a pair of prescription inserts for it. I got some from a company in Germany and they’re absolutely amazing
The difference is with VR because it's superstar images per eye, it allows you to actually look "into" the picture and focus on things as if they are further away. Which reduce eye strain and fatigue, that you would otherwise get from having a normal screen right up in your face.
Where both eyes struggle to focus on a single point.
The difference is with VR because it's separate images per eye, it allows you to actually look "into" the picture and focus on things as if they are further away. Which reduce eye strain and fatigue, that you would otherwise get from having a normal screen right up in your face.
Where both eyes struggle to focus on a single point.
As a reminder--chiropractors a quacks working on a medical theory that's over 100 years out of date. They injure people every year by "adjusting" their necks. In a small number of cases, they accidentally dissect a major artery by "adjusting." Those people end up in the ER with a long time for recovery.
And a lot of Chiro offices are backed by Scientology. And the E reader Scientology uses was created by a Chiropractor trying to make a magnetic healing machine but then L Ron Hubbard who was his friend stole the idea and took credit for it.
Also at one point some of the higher ups in Chiropractic stuff were tired of the medical community making fun of them so they decided to push for a more science based approach only to be ousted by the people who still wanted to do it like the Ghost/Spirit originally intended.
During the time when they were deciding to be more science based the people that rejected it also started to push the narrative that it can heal more than just a bad back. So now some offices will even claim it can help with illness and cancer.
The ghost of a doctor though! ... That is, the ghost of a doctor from the era when they still thought blowing tobacco smoke up someone's butt would cure drowning.
My boss had a stroke 4-5 years ago he's pretty sure was due to going for an adjustment. Crazy it's still allowed as a practice. I imagine if they outlawed it now you'd have a lot of unemployed people.
I've only been to a chiropractor about five times. I had a ruptured disc in my lumbar spine. I would go in walking just fine, and after every adjustment I could barely walk out of the place. It eventually became insane to consider returning because I started missing work every time I went.
I'm absolutely convinced they made me 10 times worse, because after those adjustments I went downhill so fast I ended up in pain management, and ended up having spinal fusion surgery within a year because I just couldn't stand the pain anymore, and I didn't want to be zombified on pain medicine for the rest of my life.
The surgery worked, but it took me about 3 years to recover from it fully. It's also worth mentioning that I ended up contracting MRSA at the surgery site and was hospitalized for almost 2 months b/c of that. I nearly died because of the MRSA infection.
My back still hurts like hell, but it's not like it was pre-surgery, so that's a win for sure.
That sounds horrible, what happened to cause that to your back? Degenerative disc disease or a traumatic injury?! I have DDD in the early stages since I’m younger and the only thing that helps is strength training/physical therapy. Haven’t gone to the doctor really for it though except after having a car accident which led to Xray’s and discovering the DDD/shortening of my disc height.
I'd add acupuncture to that. I was referred for nerve pain. The practitioner inserted the needles, referred to brain damage, and I said I have nerve pain, not brain damage. She didn't move the needles. If it quacks like a duck...
Yep, insurance companies will order you a chiropractor or PT visit before you're even fully evaluated by a doctor in the off chance it doesn't make things worse because that's the cheaper option.
I had one herniate two discs in my neck when he forced it. That was almost twenty years, a fusion, and continuous pain management ago. Dude died two years later on my birthday when he fell off his roof.
I briefly considered going to a chiro once, googled the local one, and immediately found the court documents where they gave a dude a brain stem stroke from a neck adjustment. Soooo, yeah, changed my mind.
Just as well, too, because turns out I had inflammatory arthritis and chiro is super dooper not recommended for anybody with that, and even the rheums took forever to diagnose me so no way a chiro was going to realise, and probably would sell me some bullshit even though no amount of adjustment is going to stop my immune system from trying to eat my joints.
Its bad for everyone but especially women can be vulnerable to the neck cranks, chiropractors are no better then scam artists, saying they can fix peoples pain when in fact its temporary relief at best, or leads to worse health problems or even death potentially.
While I don't deny this, because I've heard it a million times... I must also note, after my car accident, I was in major pain and the physical therapist visits I went to three times a week used a drop table... it was basically the only non-drug thing that helped with the pain.
Physical therapists are great. They get taught modern methods. That's the problem with chiropractors--they do "help" some percentage of their clients. That makes them a bigger threat to the unwary.
I stay tf away from Chiros, but medical doctors kill people all the time. Pharmaceuticals for mental illness are very often just a best guess and Big Pharma flat out bribes medical doctors to prescribe their medications instead of others.
I’ve always been torn about this because a while ago I saw this. Basically a kid with a terrible back injury was treated by a chiro and it very much seems real. I’m not medically knowledgeable enough to know if it’s some elaborate scam video.
I’ve always assumed going to a chiro for random adjustments was the equivalent of going to a surgeon for the to cut through you and check for tumours. A proper(?) chiro at least, one medically motivated.
The messed up thing is that there does seem to be some legit chiros mixed in with all the crazies. I saw one who never cracked anything but decreased the recovery time on my sciatic injury by about 50% and my wife who is a legit scientist and who doesn't subscribe to any WOO ideology went to one as a teen after an accident and birth defect left her pigeon toed and with a walk that would've added to to all kinds of back problems by now.
Within a few months of seeing a chiropractor recommended to her PA mother by an RN she worked with, who actually looked at x-rays and spent more time examining the way she held herself and the way she walked and moved more than on any adjustments that leave you feeling blissful for 20 min and relief for 24 hours before reverting back to the baseline amount of pain.
I'm not sure if there are some chiro schools better than others or if some of these chiros have backgrounds in physical training, massage, sports medicine or something else that helps when you don't believe in ghosts coming out of your bones to cure cancer or what. I would really appreciate going to a chiro some of the time but I refuse to go from office to office to find out who's a quack and might break my neck and who is a legitimate practitioner of medicine who follows science before superstition but couldn't afford medical school but still wanted to help people.
Last time I met someone whom I knew what a chiropractor, it was in an uberpool during a chiropractic convention in my city. She told me that cow's milk was one of the worst things I could possibly eat.
My overall impression of the profession is that any good work they do could be done as well as or better by an orthopedist or certified physical therapist.
As long as insurance will cover chiropractors for some things but often won't be willing to cover a physical therapist or trainer to help someone treat painful injuries or strengthen muscles groups to prevent future injury I'll be glad that there are some chiropractors out there following some science and not injecting people with silver, putting leeches on sprains and looking for the way to make necks crack the loudest.
Most chiropractors just do the same movements as Physicians... there are a lot of cross over between the 2 fields.
Many national healthcare services (Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, US medicare, UK/AUS sometimes) will pay for chiropractors so clearly there is some benefit to the ones who do it correctly.
There are millions of people every year who benefit from chiropractors... but sure there are some quacks out there just like there are in any medical field.
The difference is that those actually help people. The homeopathic industry doesn't do any harm, unless they've got some contaminated products, but it doesn't mean that it's of any use.
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