A few years back I got my brother’s old htc vive VR headset. While I did greatly enjoy playing beat saber on it, I eventually stopped using it as it required me to take off my glasses. I can see semi-okay without glasses but it really tires me quickly and at the end of the day it was a no-go. My glasses don’t fit inside the headset and I’m not going to wear lenses (mild phobia about having anything near my eyes).
Which VR headset out there allows for enough room to wear glasses? If it’s the playstation one i wouldn’t mind getting a ps5, I’m really open to suggestions.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
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I had the same problem. If you know your prescription, there are a few companies that will make custom lens inserts for most headsets out there. I bought some lenses from VR Optician for my HTC Cosmos and they are awesome. Totally changes the experience and makes it so much comfortable than squeezing your glasses inside the headset. Plus you avoid the issue of lenses fogging up. Definitely worth the money.
Thank you for the recommendation! I was so disappointed about the issue after being initially excited about VR.
People already pointed out the lens insets which are probably the best solution.
There’s also the option of just wearing your glasses inside the headset if you prefer that. The Quest 2 has a glasses spacer that you can put between the facial interface and the headset, which should give enough space to wear your glasses inside the headset. The Quest 3‘s facial interface can be adjusted directly (there’s 4 steps).
Thank you for the tip, the lens insets do seem like the ideal solution, but having the space for glasses might be handy for friends or family as well. It’ll be something for me to keep in mind.
Just a quick note: The insets decrease the field of view as you cannot get your face close to the screen.
I’ll be honest, I don’t notice, mostly because without the rx lenses I can’t see shit anyway lol
The Quest 3 has prescription lenses you can buy and theyre 100% worth it. The difference with glasses and the lenses is insane quality bump.
The quest 3 also has a setting that allows you to compensate for glasses, I wore my inside the headset for a while before my lenses came in
I took some of these from VR Optician as a workaround.
Perfect for me and a lot better comfort then cramping the glasses into the headgear.
Ohhh interesting, are they easy to add and remove frequently?
At least on my Rift they are. I just remove the cover lens and stick the others on.
To protect the main lense they added cover lenses on the Rift.
Sweet! Sounds easy enough if I want to share with someone. Looks like they have options for a ton of different headsets, now I’ll just have to figure out whether I want to upgrade first. Thank you 😊
Just a tip:
It is your far distance prescription (not your reading or PC prescription) as the headsets focus is set to 2 meters or higher.
Good one! I’ll be sure to double check when I dig up my prescription from… some box I still need to unpack.
Dunno about other headsets, but the quest 2 has a spacer you can buy so you can wear glasses. That being said, better to get a lens insert or wear contacts because of fog.
You have to buy it separately now? It came in the box when I got one a few years ago.
I got it last year and it came with the spacer.
I also used VR Optician to get an insert for my Index. When I bought it they let you buy them one by one. That was great for me since I’m blind in my right eye. Really well made. I’ve taken it off and on over the years and it has held up great.
For my Beyond, I had to buy a full pair of inserts. Bigscreen sells them with the HMD. But now I have a backup. I got the same prescription in both.
Apple will be selling or including prescription inserts for their Vision Pro too. Prescription inserts really are the best and most comfortable way if you can afford it.
AFAIK you can get them for every popular headset currently being sold.
Thank you, it’s good to read about these experiences. The beyond headset looks really appealing too.
I own Quest 2 and PSVR2.
The PSVR2 is by far the more glasses friendly. The entire facial interface is effectively suspended in front of your face and allows you to set a fixed depth that allows glasses clearance. The facial interface is much larger and supports larger frames.
Meta Quest is opposite: smaller and held in face by elastic that pulls the facial interface into your glasses.
I didn’t have problems wearing glasses with either, but the PSVR2 is hassle-free. Still, I got lens inserts for convenience.
PSVR2 gives you by far the most control over how close the lenses are to your eyes as it has a dedicated adjustment for that which can go as near or far as you want. Plenty of room for glasses or for built in corrective lenses(which I use) which can be adjusted out of your phobia zone.
I have a Samsung Odyssey plus (Windows Mixed Reality, it’s getting kind of old at this point) and I was able to 3D print inserts for it and use lenses from a cheap pair of Zenni glasses. In total, it cost me around $30 USD and I wasn’t expecting much from it, but after I slipped them on it was just as great as using contacts!
Instructions for this are here: https://hackaday.io/project/174826-hacking-vr-prescription-lenses-adapters
The new big screen headset while expensive, has an option for prescription lens
If you haven’t solved it yet I just picked up a Vive Pro 2 set and it worked great with my glasses. I have progressives (yes I’m that old) and it wasn’t a problem.
