VR Lens Lab - Glasses for Oculus Rift / HTC Vive

[WYP]

One of the big problems with VR is the inability to wear large glasses with your chosen headset, but what if you could put some prescription lenses inside your headset? Let's have a look at VR Lens Lab's VR Glasses.

Read more on VR Lens Lab's Glasses for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

 

[sheroo]

I see the sense in trying to do this, as I wear glasses myself. However, do you remember when the hubble telescope was put into orbit, the g forces messed with the mirror and it was deformed. Some clever bod, worked out where it was deformed and wrote an algorithm to reconfigure the output from the telescope. So in theory why couldn't you do the same for the output to a VR headset. Put in your prescription, and mathematically change the output.... No need for lenses, just do it in the software...

 

[WYP]

I see the sense in trying to do this, as I wear glasses myself. However, do you remember when the hubble telescope was put into orbit, the g forces messed with the mirror and it was deformed. Some clever bod, worked out where it was deformed and wrote an algorithm to reconfigure the output from the telescope. So in theory why couldn't you do the same for the output to a VR headset. Put in your prescription, and mathematically change the output.... No need for lenses, just do it in the software...

That is an interesting idea, but It really depends on how much computational power is required to do that in real time at 90FPS of a VR headset.

Adding your own lenses is the easier solution, as nobody would want to lose performance in VR if they want their glasses prescription on it.

 

[sheroo]

It would add some overhead, but there are big benefits. Anyone could use any headset. When your prescription changes, just change it in the software, no waiting for specsavers to produce them, and no additional costs involved.

 

[WYP]

It would add some overhead, but there are big benefits. Anyone could use any headset. When your prescription changes, just change it in the software, no waiting for specsavers to produce them, and no additional costs involved.

but at the same time changing your glasses prescription via software might be difficult.

Nobody wants to do a software change before they can let their mate use their new VR headset.

 

[SPS]

I thought on the Rift the lenses could be adjusted to correct focus?
You just don't get your exact prescription which these are obviously designed to do.

 

[sheroo]

Still think it could be done with minimal overhead. Just another setting in a player profile.

 

[SPS]

Still think it could be done with minimal overhead. Just another setting in a player profile.

People require lenses to focus, how can software do that? If you can't focus on a plane in front of you, then you need lenses to do it.