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You might be interested in Fixing My Gaze, a book by neuroscientist Sue Barry on using vision therapy to gain 3-D vision. It's been at least a year since I've read it, but I remember her discussing how beautiful she found watching snow fall when she could see the space between the flakes.

Barry shares similar experiences in a TED talk. The start of the talk is worth watching for context, but if you want to jump straight to her experience of 3-D vision, it starts at 11:00 minutes.

In the book, she mentions a truck driver who had to quit his job after gaining 3-D vision because he could no longer use his lazy eye to read signs while his dominant eye watched the road. However, I got the impression most people who gain it consider it worthwhile.

> The second I try to focus on any of the balls on my brock string, the image (its more of a ghost of an image) in my right eye completely phases out.

So it sounds like the image from your right eye gets suppressed... but what do you see when you aren't focused on a particular ball? Also, the balls on my brock string can move and the string itself is over 6 feet long - have you tried ball positions farther away than your arms can reach?

>In order for me to see the two strings and two sets of balls, I need to relax my eye, but that lets it go lazier. How do I do these exercises if I can't fuse the balls? (everything I see online says "put the balls in a place where you only see one and the string makes an x through it") I can see perfectly fine out of my right eye when I cover my left though (but I can't really read with it... is that weird?), so it's very frustrating - I just want to be able to make one ball that ISN'T JUST MY LEFT EYE'S IMAGE!!!

I have problems with suppression and convergence as well, but for me relaxing and looking "off into the distance" tends to suppress my weak eye. Not wearing my glasses suppresses my weaker eye as well - which makes some of the patching exercises hard. My vision therapist has me doing the brock string exercises with the red/green glasses (kinda like these:https://www.amazon.com/Magenta-green-Movie-Plastic-Anaglyph-Glasses/dp/B006J3JCDS/ ). It makes for some weird color shadings inside the X when the right and left images fuze, but it seems to be helping me. I've also been assigned "pencil pushups" in the past before we started with the brock string... so maybe those would help?

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My recommendation:

Oculus Quest All-in-one VR Gaming Headset https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HNW68ZC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_N5DQDbYZA4JJ3

I got the HTC Vive because I also wanted the device for gaming and the Rift was the only other option at the time. However, for Vivid Vision, Oculus Quest seems like the best balance between quality and portability.

Because it is an all-in-one headset, you can put it next to your bed and get in a quick Vivid Vision session when you wake up (you should always put on your glasses or contacts first though). It also boots up quicker with less potential for booting errors. In contrast, whenever I want to play VV, I have to go downstairs where my Vive is along with my expensive computer and towering IR blasters. The Quest also has higher resolution than the lower end options, to the extent that helps with vision therapy. If you want to use it for graphics-intensive gaming, FB recently announced that they will release a Quest-to-PC adapter that leverages the computer’s graphics card.

I'd recommend this. It takes a little getting used to but it takes care of all 'blind spots.' Used it for years.

edit: Lots of brands and styles most just clip on whatever car you are using.

Here are the links for the red filter and
red/green glasses.