People with eye issues?

Is there room for eyeglasses when wearing the Rift? I don't have mine yet so sorry if this has been covered somewhere? It's hard to find any specific info on the form factor.

Also is there any plans to providing optical frames inside the Rift for prescription inserts?

"billyd" wrote:
Is there room for eyeglasses when wearing the Rift? I don't have mine yet so sorry if this has been covered somewhere? It's hard to find any specific info on the form factor.

Also is there any plans to providing optical frames inside the Rift for prescription inserts?

Some glasses simply don't easily fit inside the Rift's frame, but most do. If your eyesight isn't too poor, then you will probably be able to use the Rift without your glasses. Even though I'm moderately nearsighted and have astigmatism in both eyes, I prefer not to wear my glasses.

I personally haven't heard anything about the possibility of ordering prescription lenses for the Rift. Due to the cost of manufacturing custom lenses, I doubt it's a service that Oculus will provide, but maybe a third party will set it up.

"DeadlyJoe" wrote:

"billyd" wrote:
Is there room for eyeglasses when wearing the Rift? I don't have mine yet so sorry if this has been covered somewhere? It's hard to find any specific info on the form factor.

Also is there any plans to providing optical frames inside the Rift for prescription inserts?

Some glasses simply don't easily fit inside the Rift's frame, but most do. If your eyesight isn't too poor, then you will probably be able to use the Rift without your glasses. Even though I'm moderately nearsighted and have astigmatism in both eyes, I prefer not to wear my glasses.

I personally haven't heard anything about the possibility of ordering prescription lenses for the Rift. Due to the cost of manufacturing custom lenses, I doubt it's a service that Oculus will provide, but maybe a third party will set it up.

Thanks. I wear glasses for astigmatism and it's a pretty strong prescription so I definitely need to wear them. The good news is my glasses are very small, so they should fit if most do.

But I think it's a mistake for Oculus to ignore this in their design. A large percentage of the population requires vision correction. It's an opportunity to make this product more accessible to more people which means more sales. Also people that can afford these kinds of devices, are not going to "blink" at having to spend another several hundred on a pair of custom lenses to fit supplied inserts if it makes this device more useable for them.

Sound like a good.

i put in the C lenses, extended the foam as far as possible, and i could wear the rift DK1 and my external corrective lenses with little to no fear of scratching either.

i do not have multifocal lenses and i cannot see the largest letters on standard eye charts

someone put their prescription lenses behind the lenses of the A cups

My two cents of my experience here, I am another of those persons with glasses that had quite a few problems with OR .. until I started to learn "a few things".

I am short sighted ( not much ) with some degree of astigmatism, different from each eye, enough that of course I cannot use the Oculus as it is without my glasses on.

First time I tried this device it's been like "this thing does NOT work AT ALL", it's been a pretty annoying/sad experience, I could seen "the potential" but I could not really enjoy it.

Tried various things and yet "still not quite right".

Then .. we got an OR for development and I had LOT more time to experiment with it.

And surprisingly or maybe not "I started to understand it even better" the moment I actually started to write my own code and stuff for it.

I would dare to say that "the results you can get from OR in terms of what one with bit of eyes impairment can see or not see or enjoy or not enjoy are VERY HIGHLY DEPENDENT on what you display and how".

Kinda of a case of "it's NOT just the device, it's A LOT in the CONTENT as well".

Literally "make a room with a cube in and start experimenting with".

Things I found out :

- there's of course "a sweet spot" where images are clearer/easier to watch, strangely enough it seems ( to me ) that "too far away" is sometime/someway "worse" than "too close"

- blurness that you get when you move the head around "it's the worse thing" it's what gives one I think "the worst feeling" that "something is not quite right"

- antialiasing and filtering IS YOUR ENEMY NOT YOUR FRIEND , I believe the problem is "you are trying to make your eyes see something that does not exist in the real world", and you eyes literally "get crazy" trying to focus on something that cannot be focused at all

In essence "your eyes try to see things the way they are used to see them" and yes "if you do your best to make the OR look and act that way" it works well.

It works but "there's a lot of fine tuning" it's enjoyable and there's A LOT of room for further developments/improvements/etc. ( of course it's going to cost more but if one wants more why not to give it as an option ? ).

My experience tell me "sure it can be enjoyed" but whoever does the content has to put LOT of care into it to make it fully enjoyable to everyone.

I have an 'alternating squint' that means instead of looking out of both eyes equally, I am always focused on one eye more. So even if I look straight ahead I'm looking out of my right or left eye more.
The rift will still work, right?

Yes, you can probably still use the Rift. However you may or may not be able to see the stereo 3D effect.

If your blind in one eye you could disable stereoscopic rendering to get higher framerates.

Hey guys i wanted to ask a question i plan on buying oculus rift when the consumer version comes out just asking if you havve poor vision and when i say that i just mean u need like glasses or contact lenses obviously u cant wear glasses using oculus rift so i have not a very good vision but will my poor vision affect my oculus rift experience?