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Is anyone using this HMD with an IPD of 68? If so, how do you find it?
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Is anyone using this HMD with an IPD of 68? If so, how do you find it?
Thanks!
Rift S - IPD query
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I sold my Rift S mainly because of this. My IPD is the same as yours, and the S was the first VR headset to make me feel sick. It took me a long time to work out why I came away from every session feeling queasy, but I'm sure that's what it was. I also had that problem with things changing shape when I moved my head, which may also have been IPD related, and can't have helped my nausea. Also, as Gortron says, it does tend to kill the immersion a bit.
I have got an Index now and the nausea is completely gone, as has the distortion. The only disadvantage is that I am now very, very poor.
Given the huge price difference, there's probably no harm in trying a Rift S to see how you get along with it. I am sure lots of people with our IPD are fine. Just sharing my experience in case it helps.
I have got an Index now and the nausea is completely gone, as has the distortion. The only disadvantage is that I am now very, very poor.
Given the huge price difference, there's probably no harm in trying a Rift S to see how you get along with it. I am sure lots of people with our IPD are fine. Just sharing my experience in case it helps.
Since You have experience of using two helmets - then I have two questions:
1. Have You ever feeling queasy while using an Oculus S helmet while traveling in SRV on the surfaces of planets?
And a similar question:
1. Do you now feeling queasy when using the Index helmet while traveling in SRV on the surfaces of planets?
The answer to both questions is yes, I can get slightly queasy, if I'm doing something crazy. But the nausea I got with the Rift S was a bit different. It didn't matter what I was doing in the game, I would always feel a bit off for about an hour after removing the helmet. That's what I meant when I said it was the headset that made me sick.
This wasn't debilitating, and I would gladly have lived with it rather than pay a small fortune for the Index. But then, after a few weeks of ownership, I started suffering from infuriating eye strain. It soon got to the point where I couldn't bear to look at text in Elite. It was perfectly focused, but it just felt off in a way that I can't really describe, and was unbearable. That was when I decided that the Rift had to go.
I was baffled by the whole thing, because I had a DK2 before the S, and I used it for years without any of these problems. Then I read someone (Palmer Lucky, I think) saying that the DK2 lenses were much more forgiving for people with the wrong IPD. So that must be it.
Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive. All I can say is that, for the first days and weeks with the S, everything was fine and I was delighted with it. The problems only surfaced with prolonged use. It was as if my eyes and brain were saying, 'All right, we've had enough of this now!'
This wasn't debilitating, and I would gladly have lived with it rather than pay a small fortune for the Index. But then, after a few weeks of ownership, I started suffering from infuriating eye strain. It soon got to the point where I couldn't bear to look at text in Elite. It was perfectly focused, but it just felt off in a way that I can't really describe, and was unbearable. That was when I decided that the Rift had to go.
I was baffled by the whole thing, because I had a DK2 before the S, and I used it for years without any of these problems. Then I read someone (Palmer Lucky, I think) saying that the DK2 lenses were much more forgiving for people with the wrong IPD. So that must be it.
Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive. All I can say is that, for the first days and weeks with the S, everything was fine and I was delighted with it. The problems only surfaced with prolonged use. It was as if my eyes and brain were saying, 'All right, we've had enough of this now!'
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Only 4mm off and such a effect. I think you can clearly say: don't buy the Rift S when your IPD is not near 63 (my is 64) mm. Your Eyes are more important than VR and Oculus are idiots for removing the mechanical IPD adjustment for save some money (their stupid argument why the Rift S didn't have one).