Oculus and glasses wearing

CMDR Flaxton

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A question for those with Oculus set ups.

It is something I would really like to try / buy purely to use on Elite, however I have to wear glasses and was wondering if the oculus kit can be worn over glasses or would i struggle to do this ?

If anyone in the know could help me out here I would be most grateful.

CMDR Flaxton
 

dementia

dementia
CMDR Flaxton said:
A question for those with Oculus set ups.

It is something I would really like to try / buy purely to use on Elite, however I have to wear glasses and was wondering if the oculus kit can be worn over glasses or would i struggle to do this ?

If anyone in the know could help me out here I would be most grateful.

CMDR Flaxton
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It is possible depending on your frames but it is not recommended. You might need to consider contact lenses instead.
 

Ilenya

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I wear glasses and while it's quite possible to wear comfortably, the experience is less than optimal because I see very strong chromatic abberation. This is most likely caused by the correction (astigmatism) combined with plastic glasses. Contact lenses give a much better experience (too bad I can't wear those for long periods at a time)
 

sfajardo

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I wear glasses and no astigmatism. I prefer to use contacts, but you can play with regular glasses with no mayor problems.
 

Lirezh

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Works perfectly fine with glasses.

I use glasses made of "thin" glass, I added a small "bumper" between the lenses to avoid contact with glasses and lenses, no scratches that way.
 

M0rdresh

M0rdresh
But I wonder...you are looking at a screen less than an inch removed from your eyes, why would I need my classes?
(aside from aspects such as astigmatism)
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
M0rdresh said:
But I wonder...you are looking at a screen less than an inch removed from your eyes, why would I need my classes?
(aside from aspects such as astigmatism)
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Lenses in the Oculus brings the focal dioptre to zero on the A lenses, and -3,.0 on the B lenses. Not doing so would prevent anyone from seeing the picture as the human eye cannot focus that close to the display. If the correction you need is outside of those range, then you will either need contacts or glasses to correct your vision to one of those 2 values stated above.

There is some accommodation available by adjusting the lenses somewhat, but it is a very narrow range.

For some people, especially those with presbyopia (loss of near focus as one age) and near slightness, the use of contacts may not ba a good idea either as if one peeks out of the rift then near vision is not available.

If you prescriptions are between 0 and about -3.5 it's easier to use the lenses directly and suffer the slight out of focus than trying glasses or contacts.
 

Dr Roly

Dr Roly
I use the dk2 with glasses (long sighted and astigmatism). Needed a lot of tweaking but working well. I switched to the shallower B lenses to give more space to fit my glasses.

DEFINITELY fit lens protectors to your dk2 as the lenses are easily scratched by glasses.
 

Lirezh

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Use a rubber part between your lenses Roly, then you can remove lens protectors and probably get better vision. I doubt you can fit protectors on that curvy lenses perfectly.
I use a dense rubber material between the lenses and it presses the glasses (on the frame) against my face if I go too close on it. I tried and the glasses never seem to touch the lenses now, no matter how hard I press against it.
 

Twelvefield

Twelvefield
The consumer version of the OR is supposed to be able to handle glasses better than the DK version, but who knows? I wear progressive lenses because I used to have blurry spots in my vision. Progressives fixed that: no more blurry spots because everything is blurry all over now. What a drag it is to get old. I figure it's 50/50 ( or maybe 20/20?) that the consumer OR will be acceptable for me. Even so, the good old TrackIR runs great with ED, and you can have as big a screen as you can afford.
 
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Tetsuko

Tetsuko
Mazhurg said:
Lenses in the Oculus brings the focal dioptre to zero on the A lenses, and -3,.0 on the B lenses. Not doing so would prevent anyone from seeing the picture as the human eye cannot focus that close to the display. If the correction you need is outside of those range, then you will either need contacts or glasses to correct your vision to one of those 2 values stated above.

There is some accommodation available by adjusting the lenses somewhat, but it is a very narrow range.

For some people, especially those with presbyopia (loss of near focus as one age) and near slightness, the use of contacts may not ba a good idea either as if one peeks out of the rift then near vision is not available.

If you prescriptions are between 0 and about -3.5 it's easier to use the lenses directly and suffer the slight out of focus than trying glasses or contacts.
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I have loss of near focus due to age (my eyesight used to be perfect grrrrr), but my distance vision is still fine. I can't see close up to read so I need glasses for that. But I can use the OR just fine without glasses, because the image is focussed at infinity. True I can't see a damn thing if I peek out of the Rift. But who cares, I'm flying my spaceship :)
 

CMDR Flaxton

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thanks for all the responses guys, looks like I will be adding an Oculus to my wish list as soon as the commercial version comes out.. That is if I can convince the better half of yet more ED expence haha.

CMDR Flaxton
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
Tetsuko said:
I have loss of near focus due to age (my eyesight used to be perfect grrrrr), but my distance vision is still fine. I can't see close up to read so I need glasses for that. But I can use the OR just fine without glasses, because the image is focussed at infinity. True I can't see a damn thing if I peek out of the Rift. But who cares, I'm flying my spaceship :)
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In my case it's the opposite. My near vision is great uncorrected but my normal vision is around -2.0 (apprx both eyes). Because of presbyopia (near focus loss to age), I cannot focus if I wear glasses - Hence by I wear bifocal with the lower part neutral (e.g. 0). If I wear contacts to correct my normal vision to zero and use the A lenses, than IO am the same as you (Can't see a darn thing close...)

As you say, fairly minor until I need to peek out to type... grrr.

:)
 
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