My colleague at work has very bad eyesight, on the strongest prescription glasses possible and isn’t allowed to drive/operate machinery. When using computers hes has to get really close to the screen to see properly.
He’s a big gamer though and the other night he had a go with a friends VR glasses on a PS4. He thought there would be no way he could use them because of his eyesight, but he said the experience was amazing. Within the game he could see ‘normally’. Because the glasses where so close to his eyes he could see distant objects, read signs on walls etc., everything in focus.
Now if VR glasses were paired with cameras on the front it could enable him to ‘see’ as normal (I’m sure someone is working on this). He really was very excited at the prospect.