The problem with it is that humans don't just use binocular vision - we have a whole model of the world. So for instance, if I see an object, I usually know roughly how big it is supposed to be because I have a conception of "object". I also know that the straight line on both sides of an object is a wall, and that the wall continues behind the object and therefore the object is in front of the wall and the object is closer than the wall.
That means I'm not just working with my binocular vision and it can be deceptive to think that because it works for human vision it will also work well for computer vision.
You get around just fine without it. Got it back after some speciality glasses (PRISM).
Was a complete shock see depth again. Didn’t seem to help anything getting it back. Mostly just trippy. Chairs were amazing to stare at.
But unlike Quake, Tetris isn't providing you with a 3D experience. That makes me wonder how much overlap there is between the two experiences.
Walking outside you see lines and shadows everywhere. Entire perspective changes.
My vision would switch from one eye to the other roughly every 30 seconds. Mostly seamlessly. Took ages to figure this out. Had some minor left brain issues. So writing would go gibberish every 30 seconds. Keeping a patch on right eye meant my vision went black every 30 seconds but my writing was fine when I could see.
Left eye being patched meant writing mostly gibberish. Still had blackness every 30 seconds.
Going on blood thinners resolved the vision going black and gibberish problems.
Prism glasses fixed double vision problems.
Medication for cranial pressure removes the need for prism glasses for about 10 hours. I have several extremely different pairs of glasses depending on what my brain is currently doing.
Inhaled some caustic gas a few years ago. My blood went “sticky” from it. Apparently it activated a Latent blood disorder.
Would take memory tests daily or more to see how “stupid” I was.
Graphing my own cognitive decline and eventual resurgence was “interesting”
Reducing pressure resolves the issue.
Both eyes are very healthy.
At worse it’s +24 diapors, -1 power.
When pressure is good it’s 0-2 diapors +3power.
For awhile it was -6 diapors.
At this point I have glasses for much of the range.
Temple pain tells me when it’s time to switch glasses.
Avoiding caffeine and other stimulants helps.
Taking a Diamox will drop pressure in a couple of hours.
We can see a forest, then a tree, then a leaf. All different "objects", yet related. The ability to not distinguish each blade of grass in my yard and just see it all as "grass" is very useful for noticing and not stepping on what the dog left behind.
Downsides include being less precise at longer distances (an object 1.5 meters away becomes a lot larger if it gets 1 meter closer, an object 150 meters away barely changes) and poor performance on surfaces with fewer features, or really dense features that all look alike (e.g. running across a field while spotting bumps and dips in the grass, or measuring whether sheets of steel are flat or not)
In some cases this doesn't matter - a Roomba doesn't care if it's hard to see things 150 meters away, as rooms are rarely that big.