+1 on the attention. There are probably so many humans around the world (I'd estimate in the millions easily, assuming this affects even 1% of the population) who get eye strain and headaches from their oled devices (or even "modern" LEDs! Brake lights are terrible!) but never realize the cause.
Btw for anyone wondering, recent "Chinese" phones appear to do a damn good job. I have a recent BBK device, and I run eye comfort mode on 24/7, and despite being hyper sensitive to pwm (my previous oled phone was bad), this is quite comfortable.
When I was a kid I learned that the CRT screen refresh rate must be set to at least 60Hz otherwise it looks like crap and is pain to look at. My cousin had his set to some lower value and would claim not so see any issue. His father said "I don't know how these damn kids stare all day long at the screen, I stare half an hour and I get a headache!" because you're one setting away from not having the headache but you won't let me change it because reasons.
My parents have a plasma TV and I can clearly see it flicker, although it doesn't cause any pain.
OLED doesn't bother me much (I'm fine with iPhone's OLED screen even at 60FPS mode), but my eyes hate low CRI, flickery LEDs.
Bottom of the barrel, eye searing cool white LEDs with bad CRI and flicker control makes my life really harder. Low quality florescent bulbs also create eye strain for me.
The best solution I have found is 90CRI, dimmable Philips LED bulbs. They grow warmer as you dim them, and they create a very comfortable environment for me. Also, a big Bauhaus branch in my city uses mixed temperature LEDs to tune resulting color and temperature. Since ceilings are so high, you don't see the lamps and feels like you're walking under sunlight. It's that good, kudos to them.
Brake lights could be terrible but headlights are much worse because they are always on at night, they got brighter and are pointed to cars coming into the other direction. Furthermore for some reason it seems that newer cars point their lights almost horizontally. It's as bad also when a car is following me. I never switched my mirror in the low reflection position as often as in the last few years.
Btw for anyone wondering, recent "Chinese" phones appear to do a damn good job. I have a recent BBK device, and I run eye comfort mode on 24/7, and despite being hyper sensitive to pwm (my previous oled phone was bad), this is quite comfortable.
My parents have a plasma TV and I can clearly see it flicker, although it doesn't cause any pain.
Bottom of the barrel, eye searing cool white LEDs with bad CRI and flicker control makes my life really harder. Low quality florescent bulbs also create eye strain for me.
The best solution I have found is 90CRI, dimmable Philips LED bulbs. They grow warmer as you dim them, and they create a very comfortable environment for me. Also, a big Bauhaus branch in my city uses mixed temperature LEDs to tune resulting color and temperature. Since ceilings are so high, you don't see the lamps and feels like you're walking under sunlight. It's that good, kudos to them.