My vision is good and I don't need glasses. However, several people I have shown the CV1 to wear glasses. Additionally, for my work we want to show a demo I made to people at conferences many of which have glasses.
What is the best advice for using the CV1 with glasses. Just leave the glasses on and adjust the straps until they CV1 fits the head nicely?
I think that's the only option really on the Rift, I did read the Vive is better suited to glasses wearers as you could either move the displays to give more space / it has more space / you can get different padded attachments to give more space. Vive owners would confirm.
Another option for glasses is to fill them with wine or beer. Honestly, do that and a work conference will be more fun.
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Based on the title I came here hoping you were providing advice, instead of requesting some 🙂
Unfortunately my best advice is to use Gear VR for VR demonstrations, because that one has the no brainer diopter dial on it.
Other then that there was a post on this forum about a company releasing a more glass friendly faceplate for the CV1 then the narrow default one (not sure if it's out yet), but basically without a diopter dial the CV1 is just a poor and not recommended choice for demoing VR to a random group of people. No idea what Oculus VR was thinking on that one, but they got it horribly wrong (both the lack of diopter dial and the the lack of a wider faceplate to make up for it) : I'm guessing that after 4 years of developing CV1 they now live in an alternate reality where every Oculus VR employee went Lasik and no glass support is required...
Otherwise in the real world the maximum default CV1 width is for glasses is ~15 cm, but you need at least ~1cm of clearance to make it less unbearable so that leaves less then 14cm.
Which works fine for children, but just isn't much for an adult head : Not one of my adult friends and family could fit their default glasses into the CV1, giving the lot of them a picture quality worse then the one a wider Google Carboard headset can achieve for them.
Otherwise in the real world the maximum default CV1 width is for glasses is ~15 cm, but you need at least ~1cm of clearance to make it less unbearable so that leaves less then 14cm.
My glasses are 15 cm wide. They fit perfectly, barely brushing the foam on the sides and are completely unnoticable once wearing it. I'd say there's at least another cm or so of play before they start not fitting.
Unless there's 1 cm of foam, 15 cm is as wide as you can get (and even then it's probably pinching the branches into your face).
How do you recognize a glass wearer who's never tried Gear VR : He's still trying to defend Oculus VR's decision not to include a diopter dial on the CV1.
All those who tried out a 99$ Gear VR last year before they got to try out my "high end" CV1 this year, were both puzzled and underwhelmed by it's obvious lack of a diopter dial, and rightly so.
Also not one of them is planning to go buy a smaller pair of glasses or anything for the sake of fitting them inside a CV1 either : The right path is not about Samsung taking a step back by removing it's diopter dial off the next Gear VR, but about Oculus VR taking the obvious step forward by including one already, before someone else does it for them.
My vision is good and I don't need glasses. However, several people I have shown the CV1 to due wear glasses. Additionally, for my work we want to show a demo I made to people at conferences many of which have glasses.
What is the best advice for using the CV1 with glasses. Just leave the glasses on and adjust the straps until they CV1 fits the head nicely?
I wear glasses and have no issue, Only thing I do which may be different to someone who doesn't where glasses is place the front on my nose and pull the strap over my head, as apposed to placing it on the back of my head and pulling it down. I encourage everyone that uses my rift to do the same as it stops hair/grease/hair spray etc. getting on the lenses.
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From what I've seen it sounds like the diopter adjustment in the Gear isn't enough to correct for more than moderate nearsightedness anyway.
I'd be willing to give it a try if I knew anyone that had one, but it sounds like it can only adjust up to something like -5 or -6. My glasses are about -11
I wear glasses and don't have any problems really. Only thing I have to do differently is put the headset on the way Oculus recommended, which takes slightly more time but it's no big deal.
I don't know if it's enough for everyone (I have at least one friend with very poor sight who is happy with his Gear VR purchase but couldn't use my CV1). I do know that when it works it makes anything less feel like a disappointing cheap knockoff.
I just don't see Samsung removing such a convenient feature, instead I see me switching to the first high end headset that bothers providing it.
