I am sure others have though about this as well. If a person has a lazy eye, what do they see from it? Do they have really go peripheral vision or does that eye try to look forward but perhaps has a hard time focusing. I have attached a picture of Houston Rocket, Tracy McGrady as an example. If he has increased peripheral vision, his awareness as a ball handler would be a tremendous advantage.





This thread is in no way meant to be rude, insulting, or rude again. I am 100% serious in my quest to find out what the lazy eye sees.

 

Another good example..

 

cross your eyes.... the spit vision you are experiencing is most likely what they are experiencing to some degree

I can cross my left eye independent of my right on demand and this is the type of vision I experience when I do it.

 

man...i used to work with a woman who had a lazy eye. one particular time she was talking to me but i could not tell since the lazy eye was off in la la land staring behind me. i ignored her...she then told me she was actually talking to me. i felt horrible

 

I can't cross my eyes, never have been able to. But Tmac for example has 1 eye facing outwards. Would he have increased visibility to his right?

 

and have a blind spot directly in front of him?

 

put up a finger in front of your nose about a foot out and slowly bring it toward your nose while focusing on the middle ofthe finger....your eyes will cross as you bring it to your nose.

as far as the vision the lazy eye sees....I am not too sure because I do not have a lazy eye, but, when I perform my oddity the vision from that eyes is severely distorted. I think it is a by product of my eyes still trying to tranmit stereoscopic vision to my brain. The focus ceases to work and neither eye seems to function to well during that time. They still recieve light and still process the image but the ability of both eyes are reduced...no doubt a result of splitting what should be one stereo image into two seperate mono inputs.

I am sure this probably happens to the lazy eye and the owner has to adapt/learn to process his inputs correctly.

 

Well have to have s2020 chime in. I believe though they adapt and see fairly regular. At times the eye that is not focusing also has limited vision out if it.

 

the lazy eye (the technical term is amblyopia) does not enable the individual to see any more peripherally than an orthotropic (straight eye) individual.
Primogen is mostly correct. The person just (subconciously) suppresses the information from the strabismic eye so the brain is not confused by the incongruous images.

 

^ Yep, my college roommate had a lazy eye. He said the same thing... basically, his lazy eye just "goes to sleep", so he only really sees what his strong eye is looking at.

For an athlete, I would think that a lazy eye would be a huge detriment. If you're only processing info received from one eye, then you're losing depth perception... not good if you need to know if that basketball goal is 8' from you, or if it's 8'6" from you. I'm sure the brain can adapt somewhat, though, since it knows exactly how large the rim is and can scale it to determine its distance.