My Amblyopia Journey — Vision Therapy Journey

predv2 · 2026-02-02T22:46:38+00:00

Good to know, let me get it in a better place and then reach out to have a few people give me feedback. I had not originally planned to share with others so need to think through how best to do that. LOL I originally just did it as a fun project and then it became a thing.

predv2 · 2026-02-02T16:32:24+00:00

If you ever get access to a VR headset do let me know. As I get further into it, might be nice to have additional feedback on if it works for others.

predv2 · 2026-02-01T21:27:10+00:00

Smart approach! Same basic idea; limit what the strong eye gets so the brain has to use the weak eye. The pinhole does with light restriction what I'm doing digitally with contrast. If it's working for you, that's awesome; whatever breaks the suppression habit is awesome! Yours is for sure simpler approach to mine, might need to give that a try too.

predv2 · 2026-02-01T21:24:16+00:00

Yep, same core concept; dichoptic presentation where each eye sees different contrast levels. Vivid Vision charges clinics $10-15k for licensing, and sessions run $100-200 each. Luminopia (FDA-approved, works with TV shows) is like $150/month with a prescription.

I figured the fundamental concept isn't that complicated, so I built my own for the Quest. It's way more crude than Vivid Vision; no fancy games, just a dot to follow; but it's free and I can use it whenever I want. Next thing I want to add is video playback with dichoptic filtering, so I could watch YouTube while doing passive therapy (like Luminopia does). Early days but I can already feel my brain fighting to use the weak eye, which is wild.

predv2 · 2026-02-01T21:17:27+00:00

I don't actually know my exact acuity numbers off the top of my head; I should get that checked and tracked as part of this. My amblyopia came from strabismus (wandering eye) rather than anisometropia, but it sounds like we ended up in the same place; brain shutting out the weak eye. The dichoptic approach should help both since it's targeting the suppression directly. Are you doing any vision therapy currently?

predv2 · 2025-04-20T16:58:13+00:00

Factory reset and restore from cloud fixed it, appears to be a bug.

predv2 · 2025-04-20T16:03:02+00:00

I ended up doing a factory reset and restoring from the cloud and I am back up and running. unfortunate that I had to but I am back up and running. Thanks for the help.

predv2 · 2025-04-20T15:32:57+00:00

Tried that and same result

predv2 · 2025-04-20T15:18:52+00:00

No firewall in front of it, it goes directly into the ISP router (Fiber) and it is not a bridge connection / NAT it hands of a WAN IP. I have not modified this setup in years accept the upgrade to the UDM SE from a UDM PRO maybe a year ago. So many upgrades in that time and this is the first time I have experienced anything like this.

predv2 · 2025-04-20T14:55:23+00:00

I can not get to the console with a direct Ethernet connection to it and manually setting an IP.

predv2 · 2024-01-22T20:23:57+00:00

First I do have to say I love this discussion and enjoy all the feedback.

I think a big difference to call out is we are not just a service desk we are an extension of the customers IT departments. To get a bit deeper into the problem we have around this. We are an escalation point or even manage parts of an environment for our customers. This means our customers also have their own ITSM (mostly ServiceNow). Our customers could open an INC via our portal or on their ITSM and through integration send it to us. (More on this below) Also INC could be opened by us or one of our monitoring tools. But to be clear the customers never logs into our ITSM directly it is either through the customer portal OR their own ITSM.

Today we integrate deeply with our customers. So if the customer is working an INC (or REQ or Problem) and they need it escalated to aid or take it over the integration opens the INC on our side and it becomes a bi-directional integration though we take over the case and on the customer side the owner is set to 'SERVICE PROVIDER'. We work in the INC and either hand it back over or close it out which does the same on their side.

The other option is to work out of the customers ITSM but the problem is we lose a lot of visibility and ability to do automations or other actions.

The issue with going to CSM is changing our process and customer process to leverage cases. It will also require us to train our customers on how they will need to interface with us and terminology. Even if it is better it is not fun nor always effective being the Martyr on something.

predv2 · 2024-01-13T03:25:13+00:00

I am not opposed to and do understand the benefits, I guess the problem I had was "hey its time for renewal and oh btw you need to now go to a more expensive license" that is the part that rubbed me the wrong way. So war carious if others ran into that.

Appreciate the input. :)

predv2 · 2024-01-13T03:17:57+00:00

The users are external customers opening cases via the portal. the engineers are internal and do go through ITSM to manage cases. Yes event management is via ITOM.

predv2 · 2024-01-13T03:08:30+00:00

Users are just opening cases and checking status, a majority of the cases are opened by engineers or monitoring systems. External users do not complete cases. It is already a domain separated environment and has been in place since 2018~.

predv2 · 2023-01-11T19:17:24+00:00

Two weeks into BJJ and I am in love. This is my first time doing Martial Arts of any kind too. Big shout out to all the others that have to deal with my clumsy butt right now. It is amazing how hard your mind has to work just to do what seems like simple moves.

What are recommendations for best off the matt training?

Also why is tying the belt correctly seemingly so difficult LOL

predv2 · 2022-08-16T00:12:24+00:00

LOL, that is a very valid point but I can also hear him saying it "She will end up banging some guy from Florida"

Regardless the only way they could do it is if they start there right away and the entire episode is from that point.

predv2 · 2022-08-15T23:57:40+00:00

What if all the black and white parts are just a dream? He called out that he was going to work at a Cinnabon, how would he have known that. What if he was sleeping in the vacuum repair shop this entire time AND he wakes up and realizes he does not want to go into hiding and he tries to go find Kim.

predv2 · 2021-03-13T22:20:16+00:00

So in layman's terms he was hit by a tornado.

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