Become a VR Lens Lab beta tester

[vrcover]

Hey guys, I have been working the last couple of months with people who own a major lens laboratory and do some pretty cool stuff. We just finished up a non VR Kickstarter for our technological eyewear brand Gauss and I have finally time to write about VR Lens Lab.

I had the idea to start VR Lens Lab at the same time when I launched VR Cover because I knew Pit (the guy I did the Kickstarter with) would help. He was crazy about the idea after I showed him some DK2 demos ("that's the future!"). Our goal with VR Lens Lab is to build adapter for prescription lenses and lenses with special coatings that work directly in your headset.

We tried a lot of things so far and want to invite you to become beta testers. In the first batch we will send out we will send 10 people who have either Gear VRs or DK2s our 3d printed adapters with prescription lenses and different coatings we developed and we want to test.

Feel free to head over to VR Lens Lab and sign up. We will choose people based on what prescriptions they have and what headsets.

[vrbites_com]

Hi VRcover,

Great Idea! I had a familiar idea. Since I work a lot behind the pc (developing, journalism and gaming), so 18 hours a day isn't an exception anymore. I use several glasses. Some with yellow coating, others with protection against radiation and one reading glasses. I was thinking a about a sticker with a protective coating that you can stick on your lenses. Like my glasses have a yellow protective coating and the other has antireflective coating. I would love my lenses have such features. You can easily fix that with a protective sticker. Maybe you can do a Kickstarter or a poll asking if there is enough interest for this. I think there isn't even a patent on that, so if your fast... 😉

Great work on the lenses! People will appreciate it. The only thing I ask myself is how are you going to replace the lenses in the consumer version? As far as I know you can wear glasses inside the final release of the rift.

[vrcover]

We do not work on complete replacements (yet). You can think of it more as a comfort solution for people who don't want to wear contacts or their glasses and have the prescription lenses directly in the headset. We have some more ideas where we want to take the project but this is it for the moment 🙂