Occukus and glasses worth it?
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I have -5 and -4
If you have huge glasses, get smaller ones. Mine are medium sized, rectangular and they fit in without any issues. They are not getting stuck etc.
With glasses you lose a bit FOV, however presence is still there.
With glasses you have minor reflections, however I noticed them only after months of gaming. Anti reflective coating is a good thing here.
The biggest problem for most people is that the glasses get into contact with the lenses and those lenses are made of butter. Even cleaning them scratches them.
So if you take no precautions you will have badly scratched lenses after a few usages.
However, I found a nice solution (after ruining my first set of lenses and exchanging them with the second set (you can dismount them, so you have 2 sets).
I have a high quality dampenig mat (it's a dense and firmly soft rubber sheet) I cut off about 1.5cm x 6cm and clapped it together. Now I put that thing in between the two cups.
When I now press my face in the small metal part that hold the lef tand right glasses together is touching the rubber before my glasses touch the lenses, I can press quite hard and nothing happens anymore.
A similar material can be found easily.
Alternatively people use mobile phone screen cover sheets to protect the lenses, that's also possible.
Alternatively people went to their optician and ordered round prescription lenses that they mounted into the cups of DK2, so they can use it without having glasses on them. (that's the best solution so far if you want it perfectly)
With Oculus you have to be ready to work a little bit and tweak it if required. I even made the DK2 lenses sit a bit wider to perfectly fit my IPD.
Conclusion: I have no problems at all with my glasses and play Elite nearly every day using DK2 (and no matter how nice it looks on the screen, I could not switch).
If you have huge glasses, get smaller ones. Mine are medium sized, rectangular and they fit in without any issues. They are not getting stuck etc.
With glasses you lose a bit FOV, however presence is still there.
With glasses you have minor reflections, however I noticed them only after months of gaming. Anti reflective coating is a good thing here.
The biggest problem for most people is that the glasses get into contact with the lenses and those lenses are made of butter. Even cleaning them scratches them.
So if you take no precautions you will have badly scratched lenses after a few usages.
However, I found a nice solution (after ruining my first set of lenses and exchanging them with the second set (you can dismount them, so you have 2 sets).
I have a high quality dampenig mat (it's a dense and firmly soft rubber sheet) I cut off about 1.5cm x 6cm and clapped it together. Now I put that thing in between the two cups.
When I now press my face in the small metal part that hold the lef tand right glasses together is touching the rubber before my glasses touch the lenses, I can press quite hard and nothing happens anymore.
A similar material can be found easily.
Alternatively people use mobile phone screen cover sheets to protect the lenses, that's also possible.
Alternatively people went to their optician and ordered round prescription lenses that they mounted into the cups of DK2, so they can use it without having glasses on them. (that's the best solution so far if you want it perfectly)
With Oculus you have to be ready to work a little bit and tweak it if required. I even made the DK2 lenses sit a bit wider to perfectly fit my IPD.
Conclusion: I have no problems at all with my glasses and play Elite nearly every day using DK2 (and no matter how nice it looks on the screen, I could not switch).
Just wanted to say, I don't use glasses and I also get the 'reflections' thing, so I don't think that's purely down to you specs! 
I all also find I have to lose some FOV by having the lenses at their furthest from my face as any closer and my eyelashes touch the lenses which freaks me out!
I all also find I have to lose some FOV by having the lenses at their furthest from my face as any closer and my eyelashes touch the lenses which freaks me out!
I also have -4-5 eyes and I understand very little of optics (I assume, since this confuses me...). I can see well close-up and the lenses would be practically touching my eyes, so shouldn't that negate the need to use glasses? I can read a book from close-up without my glasses on, after all...
I don't think it works like this. I'm longsighted +4 ish in one eye and +3 in the other. I don't need to wear my glasses at all with the DK2. I don't know how the B lenses work but the A lenses are fine for normal/long sight without correction. I suspect with short sight you'll still need glasses, but someone on here is bound to know.
For the DK2 I beleve this is what the eye relief adjusters are for, use the A/B lens for the big adjustment, and then fine tune with the eye relief to have it focus for your eyes.
I use a strip of foam rubber from home depot to bridge the nose so i don't have the plastic rubbing on the bridge of my nose. The specific stuff i have was made for pickup truck bed topper foam.. it keeps it shape and slowly forms to my nose. I have strips on the bottom of my keyboard as well, does not let it slip around, andt for example i can run my mouse cord under it and it wont lift it either and the foam just deforms around it.
I use a strip of foam rubber from home depot to bridge the nose so i don't have the plastic rubbing on the bridge of my nose. The specific stuff i have was made for pickup truck bed topper foam.. it keeps it shape and slowly forms to my nose. I have strips on the bottom of my keyboard as well, does not let it slip around, andt for example i can run my mouse cord under it and it wont lift it either and the foam just deforms around it.
Thing is that the OR is focussed at infinity. So if like me you have good distance sight, but can't read close up without glasses, then the OR is fine without glasses. If on the other hand you are near sighted then you will need glasses, and the narrower set of lenses that come with the OR should work. Just take precautions to protect the lenses as described above.
OR is why I put my contacts in after getting home from work.
With glasses I have no issues at all except the need of that rubber inlay to protect the lenses from scratches.
DK2 has a focal depth of 1.5 meter if I recall right, so if you can see 1.5 meter you are fine.
With the B cups it changes to maybe 1 meter or 40 cm, if you can see that you will be fine. (but I dislike B cup visuals)
With >= -3 dioptries you will be already off from those distances, you need glasses, a dioptic mod or contacts.
I find glasses comfortable to wear, I played for hours without issues.
The bigger problem of DK2 is the fixed IPD, if your eyes are closer together or wider than the default (just by 2-3 mm is enough) then you will have blury headacke vision.
Therefore I modded DK2 a bit to fit my IPD, I made a thread somewhere on this board about it if someone needs to do the same.
It's around one hour of time, maybe two with testing and optimizing vision until it's perfect.
I've an IPD of 71, in my case it is like night and day since I made the mod.
DK2 has a focal depth of 1.5 meter if I recall right, so if you can see 1.5 meter you are fine.
With the B cups it changes to maybe 1 meter or 40 cm, if you can see that you will be fine. (but I dislike B cup visuals)
With >= -3 dioptries you will be already off from those distances, you need glasses, a dioptic mod or contacts.
I find glasses comfortable to wear, I played for hours without issues.
The bigger problem of DK2 is the fixed IPD, if your eyes are closer together or wider than the default (just by 2-3 mm is enough) then you will have blury headacke vision.
Therefore I modded DK2 a bit to fit my IPD, I made a thread somewhere on this board about it if someone needs to do the same.
It's around one hour of time, maybe two with testing and optimizing vision until it's perfect.
I've an IPD of 71, in my case it is like night and day since I made the mod.
I don't understand optics either, but from what I do understand...
The people who have issues with having to wear glasses in the rift are those who are far sighted (They see distant objects easier than close objects) versus those who are near sighted (See better close up & vision quality fades with distance).
If you can read a book right up to your face without glasses/contacts than you are near sighted. You won't need to correct your vision in the rift as the rift is always right up to your face.
I actually have to take my contacts out to play in the rift as I am very very near sighted, so much so that my prescription to fix this actually hurts my ability to see things up close. (That or A actually looked better then B & i still said B at the doctor...I always worry about this).
This is at least my experience, & could be complete delusions as I am in no way an optometrist.
Just to back up what the others have said, the Rift seems to work fine with glasses. I'm -12 and have an equally good experience with contact lenses or my glasses. I keep the Rift lens cups as far away from my eyes as the adjuster will allow, and that works without any changes when I switch from contacts to glasses.
The main question is whether or not your glasses will fit inside the Rift. Perhaps someone has measurements of the internal dimensions on the Rift, to check to see if glasses will fit. The Rift pads pinch the temples against your head a bit, so more of a thin wire frame will probably be the best experience.
The main question is whether or not your glasses will fit inside the Rift. Perhaps someone has measurements of the internal dimensions on the Rift, to check to see if glasses will fit. The Rift pads pinch the temples against your head a bit, so more of a thin wire frame will probably be the best experience.
Actually it's the other way around. I can't read anything without glasses (it's an age thing) but I have excellent distance vision. I can use the OR perfectly without glasses. Reason being that the OR projects everything focussed at infinity.
Can't wrap my head around focusing at infinity...eyeballs are complicated.
Occulus and false teeth....Should I?