How I fixed blurry text

[Baton]

This is my experience, maybe someone will find it helpful :

1. I self-measured my IPD like this:

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2. As oculus does not support this IPD (67.5) despite being able to set up pretty much any distance in utility (this is weird, there should be a clear warning somewhere) I bought lens separators on http://www.shapeways.com/
3. I fitted them - read the manual, because it is not obvious, like they work only with B cups.
4. I set up IPDAmount in ED config file (not sure if it makes any difference, but I did it just in case)

After this step I started seeing everything much clearer, this unfortunately means the screen door effect now is very visible for me and text is pretty much the same bad.

5. Set up DSR to 1.5 in Nvidia Panel
6. Changed HUD color to green

This two steps made a major difference, green is so much clearer (I now why, lots of pages about it so no point to repeat, easy to google). It shows very well on mass lock square, when lit, it is red and looks horrible, the square below it (landing gear) is off, which means light green with my current hud settings and it looks very OK.
Also when you see your ranks listed in the right panel, red, orange and green, only green is readible, orange and red are a blurry mess.

All is still far from perfect, but it is much more readable then before, so the moral of the story - check your IPD and act accordingly if it is not 63.5 or close to it

As pointed by Malic, after you fit the adjusters you need to set up the interceptor software from VRgear. I did it now, it does not change how clear the image is, but in my case without it things looked smaller then normally, after installing software it is all OK. No issues so far, but I tried only ED.

 

[Raptoyd]

looks like around 67.5 same as mine do you need the seperators? I thought it had to be worse before you need those

 

[Phier]

My IPD is 70 and separators didn't work for me. The lenses are not at the right height for my eyes and it was far worse than a bit of blur in one eye.

 

[Adam Lusardi]

Uh. What is IPD? I just got my Oculus should I be worried?
Oculus does not fit all people?

I have a pretty small face so.. what can I do?

Inter-Pupillary Distance, the distance between the center of the pupils of the two eyes.
Go into the OR setup on config utility and run that with the headset screws left and right side set to fully extended. See what figure it gives you.

 

[Andurol]

Something I was wondering about also. Dont have an oculus myself, but am planning on getting one with my tax return. Now, I wear glasses, myopia with astigmatism, but only roughly -1.25 -1.00 in both eyes. Now, would I need to wear glasses whilst wearing the oculus? or since it is close enough, just worry about the setup with my PD and all? By the way, PD is 60 for myself, so just wondering if I would have any problems. best to ask before I buy, I suppose

 

[Hamerstein]

Something I was wondering about also. Dont have an oculus myself, but am planning on getting one with my tax return. Now, I wear glasses, myopia with astigmatism, but only roughly -1.25 -1.00 in both eyes. Now, would I need to wear glasses whilst wearing the oculus? or since it is close enough, just worry about the setup with my PD and all? By the way, PD is 60 for myself, so just wondering if I would have any problems. best to ask before I buy, I suppose

The OR DK2 does come with 2 lens sets as standard, Set A is for people with "normal" vision (or minor disfunction), Set B is for myopic people. I don't use Set B so I can't comment on their effectiveness, they should address short-sightedness (within a certain range) without having to resort to glasses, but neither they or Set A will counter astigmatism.

I'm astigmatic in my left eye, not severely but enough for me to notice text blurring when I'm not using my reading glasses, I'm also somewhat long sighted. I use Set A lenses without issue. You will have to adjust the side screws to modify the spacing between the screen and the lenses to fine tune.

 

[Baton]

looks like around 67.5 same as mine do you need the seperators? I thought it had to be worse before you need those

Yes you do - nobody says clearly but distance between lenses is 63.5 and if yours is different then you need to move the lenses apart somehow.

 

[Baton]

My IPD is 70 and separators didn't work for me. The lenses are not at the right height for my eyes and it was far worse than a bit of blur in one eye.

Are you sure you follow _exactly_ the procedure? Because when I first fitted my separators it was much worse. Then I started reading the manual, fitted them correctly, changed to B cups, played with distance in OR utility to adjust for the fact cups are now 2mm higher, and only after maybe 40 minutes of tinkering I got the correct image. I can see now every pixel clearly, I can count them easily, before that it was impossible.

They do say to get it even better you need to adjust the software, but in my case is not worth the time, I can see all perfectly clear now, maybe even too clean, as I said screen door effect is now striking :|

 

[Baton]

Go into the OR setup on config utility and run that with the headset screws left and right side set to fully extended. See what figure it gives you.

For me it was giving the figure 72 and my IPD is 67.5, so this utilty can give you very wrong results.

 

[M0rdresh]

Inter-Pupillary Distance, the distance between the center of the pupils of the two eyes.
Go into the OR setup on config utility and run that with the headset screws left and right side set to fully extended. See what figure it gives you.

What I don't understand is, during that measurement tool do I need to rotate my eyes to the green bar left and right and adjust or should I stare in front of me and adjust the visibility of the green bars that way?

 

[Adam Lusardi]

What I don't understand is, during that measurement tool do I need to rotate my eyes to the green bar left and right and adjust or should I stare in front of me and adjust the visibility of the green bars that way?

Rotate your eyes to follow the green line. Don't worry too much about the line being full or crescent at the extremities it only makes about 0.1mm difference (well for me)

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For me it was giving the figure 72 and my IPD is 67.5, so this utilty can give you very wrong results.

Well after the last OR update with a mod to the FOV I recalibrated and found it had changed are you saying my head size changed.

 

[M0rdresh]

The problem is if I do the measurement that way once ingame I see an artificial 'black wall' on the left side.
So my fov seems to be limiting when I do it that way, it's kind of annoying.

 

[Baton]

Well after the last OR update with a mod to the FOV I recalibrated and found it had changed

LOL, I'm not sure if you understand me correctly, I say that Oculus utility in my case gave me completely wrong IPD and it is best to physically measure it using for example a digital camera (smartphone?) and measuring tape which I did and it was very simple.

 

[Adam Lusardi]

Its just my feeling that it may not really true IPD just an OR derived setup.

 

[Karnath]

Personally for me, I did a manual IPD measurement which was 62 and entered that into the settings. Jumped into the game and the text was very fuzzy and looked far worse than the default setting of 64
So i tried the utility way followed all the green lines etc and it came back with a IPD of 62.6 but i noticed the eye relief had changed to 11.

Back into the game and a massive improvement in clarity

 

[Raptoyd]

I am going to try the tape measure like you did here as I keep getting 3 different measurements with the oculus between 64 and 67.5. This way looks more accurate as I added yours up and it was correct. I have 20/20 eyesight after lasik plus several years ago but reading vision sucks. I have not noticed where this affects me much in the rift though as it seems to account for some distance.

 

[Malic]

Are you sure you follow _exactly_ the procedure? Because when I first fitted my separators it was much worse. Then I started reading the manual, fitted them correctly, changed to B cups, played with distance in OR utility to adjust for the fact cups are now 2mm higher, and only after maybe 40 minutes of tinkering I got the correct image. I can see now every pixel clearly, I can count them easily, before that it was impossible.

They do say to get it even better you need to adjust the software, but in my case is not worth the time, I can see all perfectly clear now, maybe even too clean, as I said screen door effect is now striking :|

Wait, so you fitted the IPD adjusters but did not download their interceptor program?

You need to do that because all you did was line of the lenses so you see the pixels on the screen properly... now you need to do the software stuff to make the image be in the correct place.

You have only done half of what is needed.. if you finish it, it will not only be crisp, but your depth perception will be exact and not fudged as it is now.

 

[Baton]

You have only done half of what is needed.. if you finish it, it will not only be crisp, but your depth perception will be exact and not fudged as it is now.

OK, consider myself convinced. The reason I didn't try it is usually it ends up with couple of hours of messing around and I didn't have time and will to do it then. Any experiences how software behaves, am I to expect issues with Elite?

 

[Malic]

The main thing is download their interceptor files, pull the originals out of the Oculus SDK folder and replace them with the interceptors.

Then run the interceptor program, set it to the IPD adjustors distance and then just check the Oculus config utility to make sure it is recognizing the rift and camera... test the demo scene if needed too.

After that, the interceptor needs to be run, but all rift programs should work as normal.

Their interceptor files can be downloaded from the "making software changes" section of http://www.vr-gear.com/

 

[Raptoyd]

Went on the site and checked it out. That is a pretty amazing way to zero these in unfortunately for my I had mine measured by eye doctor yesterday and it is exactly 65.5 mm which is not a size on the site. Starts at 66.5 although I do wonder if that would still be better since it is only 1mm over while I am 2mm off from the 63.5mm normal setting. Is there an adjustment for the smaller amounts somewhere or just live with it? I do notice some blur but can like wear the mask too tight and that helps probably squeezing my eyeballs out further. They really should have foreseen this and had some kind of movement out or in on this.