21:9 vs 16:9 vs failing eyesight.

[Twyst]

Im getting old (soon 49)! Also, the various medical issues I've had, some of which mention they do affect eyesight, so it is was is. I've been wearing varifocal glasses for about 5 years now so does predate medical conditions.
I curently own a 34" 3440x1440@144Hz IPS panel. Which I love, the IPS glow is countered by bias lighting.
However, I can't even wear standard perscription glasses because the edge of the monitor is too blured or fuzzed or whatever. I noticed it and it annoyed me so I ditched them. This was about 3 years ago.
But now my eyesight has worsened I think I might actually need glasses again.

Also, I think I'm starting to find the lack of vertical height too much compared to my old 16:9 32" but unsure if it's my rose tinted memory.

I think the question is this: does anyone else here have the same experience? If you have dodgy eyes (my right eye is perfect for monitor use, left eye not) do you wear glasses using a monitor and do you use 16:9 or 21:9? If used both, which do you find better?

Just curios as I'm looking at a Samsung G7 VA panel to replace with.

[Chaosphere]

I always wear my glasses, I can't read text on my monitor without them - at normal viewing distances.

I use 21:9 panels, and have done for several years now. I can't say I notice the edges of the panel being any different to the rest...

You could try a curved panel (assuming you don't already have one - you didn't specify) if this IS a problem for you?

[Twyst]

It is curved.
This one to be specific: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34GK950F-B-gaming-monitor

[albert]

I don't wear glasses but the edges of my 3440x1440 are more of a peripheral vision blur to me. My eyesight is pretty good 15+ away from my face, (reading is becoming a blur close range). My screen is a good 3 ft from my face so the angle of viewing from centr to edge is not so large.
https://iiyama.com/gb_en/products/g-master-gb3466wqsu-b1/ curved, VA LED is what I use, and if I want to look at something right on the edge of my screen I turn my head a little.

So opinion here is unless you position the screen back a bit further, you will have some distortion on the edges anyways regardless of your eyesight problems.

[smilodon]

I'm on a 21:9 34" 3440 x 1440 screen as well. And I don't think I'd ever go back to 16:9 even though I have a very similar problem to you.

I remember as a kid being told by my optician that having to wear glasses wasn't all bad. "When you're older you won't have to mess about with reading glasses like everyone else of your age will." And they were right. Being short sighted (not having good distance vision) has the odd side effect that usually it means that you don't tend to suffer with long sightedness (not being able to read close up). So while I still need glasses for driving, watching TV etc. I can still read a restaurant menu from a few inches in front of my nose. Which to be honest watching my friends scrabble about looking for reading glasses is a godsend. So I have never needed glasses to see a computer screen and still don't today.

The thing I find is that now the edges of my monitor are just far enough away that they move from being close up and easily visible to being just out of focus unless I put my glasses on. They are just that bit too far away. Of course as soon as I wear glasses my vision is corrected (or my distance vision is) and as a consequence I immediately become long sighted and can no longer focus on the centre of the screen.

 I need sort of sideways varifocals?? So I would probably still be better off using my old 27" 1080p 16:9 curved screen!

My solution though is to use windowed mode on my Ultra Wide Screen far more than I have ever done before on 'regular' shaped monitors. I almost never use full screen for anything. When using a web browser, editing a document, watching YouTube or editing photographs I put the main screen in the centre of my screen and keep other apps in windows to the side. Sort of like using a multi monitor set up but on the once scree. Only games run full screen and that is fine as the action always takes place in the middle of the frame and the sides just add peripheral vision and better immersion.


So maybe try using windows more and full screen less? Might help?

[suicidal_monkey]

I assume you have tried talking to a decent optometrist about this to see if there's any clever lenses you could get for these sorts of situations? Might mean it costs a bit more but then it's depends how you look at things ... :flirty: