Hi glasskuter,
I work in IT and have for about 27 years now. As I have gotten older, I too have moved into bifocals per the request of my eye doctor. About a year ago, I started to struggle significantly with my computer distance vision. Like you, I was tipping my head back to keep my monitor in the center part of my glasses and it was annoying. What I ended up doing was getting computer glasses. I mistakenly thought that computer glasses were just typical glasses with special blue light filtering. However, what I discovered was that they are dedicated to that middle distance focal length. These have made a tremendous improvement for me on my day to day computer work. What really stinks though, is I do have to have 2 pairs of glasses. And I always get up from the computer, walk out the door and realize that I have the wrong glasses, and have to go back in and get the right ones.
At work, I have a Dell Ultrasharp U3821DW, which is a 38 inch curved monitor running 3840x1600. the curve on this one is just slight, 2300R. I really have grown to like the extra size of this display. I run it a scale of 125%, which helps my eyes see it better. I'd like to get a large format monitor like this at home, but 1). It's expensive and 2). I simply don't have the space at my desk/office area with the multiple systems that I have to support a monitor of this size.
With all that said, from a vision perspective...i don't find that this curved monitor has any real impact on vision for me. All of my monitors at home are flat and I have no problems with them. My computer glasses by far had a far more significant impact.
Well, I had similar issue regarding needing one pair of glasses for pc and 1 for walking about and I bought a fairly expensive pair of premium computer varifocals which have middle range extended vertically (minimising distance and short range) and virtually eliminated to tilt head at pc but could look up when walking about.
Close reading did involve looking down but being very short sighted, I could just remove specs if really struggling.
For clarity, they were called computer varifocals and are not that well known. The more standard varifocals only use a minimal band for middle as when moving around, distance is most used.
The other thing not that well known is cheap varifocals are only really geared to distance but you can read by looking down but the horizontal focus ranges are not that good and if you look to left or right without moving head, edge vision is blurred. The premium varifocals have a much better horizontal width focus range - much less blurring.
What I found is I never use the distance part too much in the house, but still found it more comfortable to use normal distance lenses outside house.
Interestingly, I had my natural lenses replaced with artificial ones as I had aggressive cataracts. As the NHS ones are single focus, I could not get a lens that cured my whole focus range, so I had to make a choice between being slightly shortsided so I could read and use pcs etc without glasses but needed distance glasses when outside (I use photochromic lenses anyway), or being slightly long sited so I could see distance but would need glasses for reading.
As I read a lot in bed, and watch tv on mobile phone, I selected to be being slightly shortsighted. In house, I never wear glasses any more, but only put them on for distance. For convenience, I bought more standard varifocals (minimised middle distance) but reasonable short and distant range so I did not keep having to take of specs when in ships.
