DK2 adjustable focus lenses

"rupy" wrote:

"billyd" wrote:
What comes to mind is essentially an eyeglass frame that can be mechanically mounted into the set, or left out for those who don't wear glasses.

Yes, I agree, the only way to preserve FOV and have room to be comfortable is to insert custom lenses inside the cups.

Oculus VR will want to make it easy to hand the Rift around from one user to another with no loss of quality or quantity, specially for the CV1, even if that means something like adding one or more (non custom) mobile lenses between the fixed screen and the fixed primary lense to achieve the same uncompromising level of FOV for everyone (internal complexity to achieve external simplicity).

Part of the rifts simplicity of design comes from the simple optics. Adding secondary lenses increases that complexity unnecessarily.
The native of the lenses is so high that the difference in FOV from sight correction is negligible.

I've wanted to get an Oculus dev kit since I first saw it on Kickstarter. The only thing that was (and is) stopping me from getting one is the fact that I need glasses to actually see and Oculus really isn't glasses friendly.

It is especially hard for people who have a very high astigmatism such as me. I really only have a small dioptry correction on my glasses but a very high astigmatism correction. And I am pretty hopeless without my glasses.

I think there is a simple way of making us happy though. Oculus should either sell different eye cups with different prescriptions. Or include a sort of empty cup where we can include our own lens. If you go to an eye doctor and buy a frame you get a template from the frame manufacturer. This template can then be used to fit lenses for your specific frame. It would be nice to see Oculus include a special cup with such a template. Then I could simply go to my local eye doctor and let them make me lenses for my perscription. Then I would simply pop that lens into the cup and be done with it.

That could probably work and be relatively simple to implement. Unless I am missing something?

You can wear the Rift with glasses. I do it all the time.

"cybereality" wrote:
You can wear the Rift with glasses. I do it all the time.

I know you can. That doesn't mean that it's all that practically (or comfortable). At least that's what I've heard from people. I get frustrated with my over the ear headphones because they make a slight pressure on my glasses (which makes them slightly less comfortable to wear for longer periods of time). I would imagine it would be even worse with Oculus.

That's why I would like a solution that would get rid of that problem before I buy one.

"roli" wrote:
I get frustrated with my over the ear headphones because they make a slight pressure on my glasses (which makes them slightly less comfortable to wear for longer periods of time

Same here. It's really annoying. And I agree it could get worse in VR, because I expect I will spend many hours in VR after buying CK1.
But that's less important than FOV. Every degree (until 170 or so) is important, and I hope we (people with glasses) won't be forced to have smaller FOV, comparing to people not wearing glasses. And pushing everything back for everybody, so we stop complaining ;) is not a good solution (of course, if it's only because of the space for correctional glasses).
I know almost everyone would say "OK, it's smaller, but still amazing". But it's a tricky thing. I constantly have to remind myself not to move away from my 3D monitor, it's "good enough", but when I move closer (bigger FOV), I acquire better immersion immediately. Every time. Bigger FOV adds so much!
(The same goes to appearance. bigger FOV>appearance)

There are problems with all solutions to this problem.

I was lucky (my left eye has exactly the prescription of the DK1 C-cup) so I only had to buy a -0.5 lens for my right eye and I was set. The ergonomics with anti-reflection and C-cups is perfect, I can play for hours!

But now the DK2 probably has a different strength on the "B-cup" than the DK1 C-cup so that solution won't work, and also it has very narrow FOV compared to the A-cups.

So my best bet now is @billyd's solution, but you need the lenses to get close to the A-cups lenses othervise your sweet spot is nanometers.

I will wait until I get my DK2 since that has a larger diameter before I bring out the eventual sandpaper and I'll let you know.

Get contact lenses and use the regular cups, you don't have to wear them all the time (they have quite the shelf life if you don't) and the learning curve is not that high.

Contact lenses are more expensive and very uncomfortable!

If you order contact lenses online they aren't expensive. I'm wearing them every day, at first they were a bit of a hassle to get used to but now I wouldn't want to miss them.