IPD Measuring Website

As a confirmation, the IPD I measured from this site was only 1mm off from the Oculus measurement.

Slight pedantry - bear in mind you are doing the test while looking at a webcam that is about a meter away, so your eyes will converge slightly, which will move your pupils closer together. The IPD given to the Rift should be taken when looking at infinity. This is also important when comparing with the IPD an optometrist measures - they sometimes measure it at a non-infinite convergence - most pupilometers have a convergence setting.

Back-of-the-envelope calculation says the IPD difference between convergence at infinity and convergence at one meter is just under a millimeter, so it's not too significant, but still something to watch for.

LOL I thought it wanted to steal my cc!

"mharris" wrote:
LOL I thought it wanted to steal my cc!

Actually, as I posted over at MTBS3D regarding such websites, a LOT of them are registered to an organization owned and run by a man known for criminal and fraudulent behavior, and identity theft. I provided a lot of links and quotes in my first post on this subject. So perhaps the goal IS to steal credit card information, for nefarious and dastardly goals such as you imagined...
:o

Thanks a ton for this link! It helped me out a bunch, apparently I was way off on my IPD using the Rift tool. I had the RIft set at 64.4 or somewhere right near there and according to this measurement I'm actually a lot closer to 61.

So I went and adjusted the settings and went and played through some games and it made a pretty good difference in scale and clarity and everything. Made the Rift even more fantastic :D.

Just got done getting lost in The Exploration School for a couple hours after some HL2VR and messing around in Tuscany again. So much fun, running the res on 1900x1200 has made the SDE barely even noticeable to me now with proper IPD set. Even the 1280x600 in HL2 looked more clear and less screen door.

Just wanted to say thanks for the link! The Rift measurement tool did not work for me. I am very careful about this kind of thing, but despite that I was getting different measurements different times, and I could not move the green line far enough to get it out of my view in some cases. The whole test just wasn't working for me, and after doing it about five times, very carefully, I started looking around for a different way to measure my IPD and found this thread.

After carefully using the Warby Parker tool twice to get and confirm my measurement (67mm), a lot of demos that were a little "off" before, and giving me eyestrain, are perfect now. I strongly recommend using the tool! They don't even suggest to use a credit card (they say a gift card or some other magnetic strip card), and my dad is a customer of theirs and I know a bit about the company… it's legit. You don't have to worry about it being some kind of scam. Just make sure when you do it that the card strip and your eyes are the same distance from your webcam.

I assume Oculus will be coming up with a better way to measure IPD, because the current tool simply does not work for some people… either that or I was misunderstanding how to do it — but if so, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

@DQCarder: What results were the Oculus IPD measurement giving you? Were they close to 67mm?

"cybereality" wrote:
@DQCarder: What results were the Oculus IPD measurement giving you? Were they close to 67mm?

@cyberreality: Sorry for the delay in responding, been very busy at work! I don't remember the exact results, but no, they were not very close. Once it was at least 70mm but I knew that was wrong because the software wouldn't let me move the green line far enough to get out of my range of vision. When testing the left eye by looking right, there was an obstruction (seemed like the right lens) that didn't appear for the right eye when looking left. It's hard to explain — all I know is that I spent a lot of time and a lot of effort with the built in IPD calibration, and was getting neither consistent nor correct results, while the Warby Parker method was very quick, easy, and accurate. The only downside is that it only measures to the nearest half-millimeter.

Gotta run, back to work. I'll try to stop by the forum more often.

tried that site...got confirmation but no ipd :) checked in my account and nothing yet