Experiences with IPD adjusters

[Smack332]

I have an IPD of about 72 mm. Since the DK2 is set ao an IPD of 63.5 mm, one eye would always be blurry and that ruined some of the immersion. Recently I got these IPD adjusters from Shapeways to mitigate the issue. They do make everything clearer, but have the annoying side effect that I can now see the outer edge of the DK2 screen. So instead of looking at the world through a circle, I now see a "semi-circle" with straight edges on each end. I'm not sure which is more immersion-breaking, the blurriness or the edges. I have to use them some more to see what I prefer.

I'm wondering if anybody else are using these or similar adjusters, and what your experiences are.

 

[Lirezh]

I adjusted my IPD (71) by removing a part of plastic on the A cups and I run the (probably) same tool as you to make the images converge properly (vr-gear interceptor).
Now what you can do:
1. you can set the interceptor distance to something like 69 instead of 72, for me that worked about as good as the 71 setting.
2. move the lenses all the way out

I do not see the display border, I gave up a bit of my FOV instead by moving lenses all the way out.

 

[Splatalot]

I scanned my lens cups and then reverse engineered them, building the offset to 70.5 for my actual IPD. After printing off the new design, I removed the lens from the supplied cups and put them in my new ones. Works a treat, everything much clearer and it's given me the room to place a comfortable nose guide/support (made from a beer can and self adhesive felt). I find this gives much better location for the DK2 and I can reduce the strap tension as well.

 

[Adam Lusardi]

I scanned my lens cups and then reverse engineered them, building the offset to 70.5 for my actual IPD. After printing off the new design, I removed the lens from the supplied cups and put them in my new ones. Works a treat, everything much clearer and it's given me the room to place a comfortable nose guide/support (made from a beer can and self adhesive felt). I find this gives much better location for the DK2 and I can reduce the strap tension as well.

Man do you have a 3d printer! I know many with the kit but never made it up! What I really need in as 3d printed nose scratcher as my main problem with the rift is every time I put it on my more itches and would love a custom printed itch remover.

 

[Splatalot]

Man do you have a 3d printer! I know many with the kit but never made it up! What I really need in as 3d printed nose scratcher as my main problem with the rift is every time I put it on my more itches and would love a custom printed itch remover.

Yep I have printer. Zortrax M200, awesome machine. Try using a paper clip to scratch your nose.

 

[Raptoyd]

What is the best measurement tool for IPD? I used the one with the snapshot of a credit card under my nose. Huh, identity theft laugh.

 

[FremanWarrior]

Get someone to take a photo of your face while you hold a ruler on your nose.

I got my IPD measured by my Ophthalmologist a couple of months before my DK2 arrived.

 

[Phier]

I got the IPD adjusters at VR gear, but they didn't work well for me. It wasn't the IPD but the focal difference even with their software made me feel sick and things were blurry. Some people they work for some they don't, I'm a non-responder. For the low cost it was worth the effort.

 

[tinimark]

I've been playing with the vr gear adjusters and have settled on a strange configuration for now. I found with both left and right installed, my left eye was badly out of focus no matter how the rift was moved around. So now I have just the right one installed with the b lens and the left one is not installed but using the A lens. I'm not using the intercept software.

For or me, this is a def improvement over standard, things are certainly sharper with less eye strain but I know it could be better.

i used that online tool for measuring ipd. You don't have to use a credit card, any mag strip card works fine. My ipd is about 67.5.

I really hope the lenses on the cv1 have some sort of solution to this. Half the fun of VR is showing it to friends and family and I want them to get the best experience possible without too much faffing around.

 

[Lirezh]

Did you run the vrgears interceptor and replace the oculus service executable ?
This is very important.
Without doing that the 2 pictures are still rendered at the position of the original IPD configuration but if you move lenses outward you need to move the images out too (that's what the interceptor does).

However it should not become blurry, blurry usually means that your eyes are not in the center of the lenses. Maybe you meassured the IPD wrong.
The oculus tool worked quite accurate for me, alternatively there are many more methods (in front of a mirror for example)

 

[Phier]

Did you run the vrgears interceptor and replace the oculus service executable ?
This is very important.
Without doing that the 2 pictures are still rendered at the position of the original IPD configuration but if you move lenses outward you need to move the images out too (that's what the interceptor does).

However it should not become blurry, blurry usually means that your eyes are not in the center of the lenses. Maybe you meassured the IPD wrong.
The oculus tool worked quite accurate for me, alternatively there are many more methods (in front of a mirror for example)

I did all that and it was more like my focal point was just off and it made me VERY uncomfortable very quickly, something I never had in 100 hours of ED or so. I found their thread on reddit and apparently others have had this too, and it seems to be people like me who can tolerate the IPD being off no problem. I decided to try the ONE IPD extender in my right eye (thats the one thats always off) but ED reset all my controls and I didn't get a chance to yet.