Adding lenses to the headset for glasses wearers

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_MttC

• February 18, 2017 18:49

The eye tracking does not work with my everyday glasses and just wearing the headset was not comfortable at all. So I did a small experiment to see if I could add lenses to the headset.

I bought this cheap frame, removed the lenses and fixed that in front of the HMD's lenses. For the moment, I use tape which is not perfect at all, but it's enough as a starting point.

There still is a lot of reflections on the lenses. You can see here a comparison with and without the lens:

With it, the eye tracking kind of work. It need frequent calibration and is not perfectly accurate, but it's enough to enjoy the headset and start coding a bit.

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  Vincent Talbot

  • February 18, 2017 22:24

  Did the lenses have an anti-reflective coating? I ordered cheap glasses to try that too with anti-reflective coating. I hope to received them soon.

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  _MttC

  • February 19, 2017 17:07

  No, I did not take that option. Let us know about the results.

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  Chris Marabate

  • February 19, 2017 18:35

  Great idea, it sure is a pain taking on and off the headset with glasses on. It seems a little odd to me that I need my glasses to use the headset considering I'm near-sighted and the screens I'm looking into are right in-front of my eyes.

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  Vincent Talbot

  • March 02, 2017 02:09

  I just received my lenses (goggles4u) with anti-reflective coating. I picked round lenses. Fit perfectly in the headset. But, the eye tracking doesn't work through them. I think the tracking software should allows customization on what to track, like take a picture of the eye, let the use select the part to track then the eye tracker use the given data to perform its calibration.

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  Harper Hendee

  • March 08, 2017 21:29

  No eye tracking with lenses seems like a pretty big deal.  But why would it work if the lenses were on your face, but not if the lenses are in the headset?  Seems like something must be blocking the eye tracking sensor.

   

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  Vincent Talbot

  • August 03, 2017 19:33

  So, for a few months, I abandonned my Fove... but yesterday, as I was doing some cleanup. I pick it up and told myself I should try it again. I was so happy to see the calibration working with my lenses from Goggles4u glued in it. My only problem now is the demos doesn't shows up in the headset.

  Also, vr-lens-lab now offer a frame that can be used in any headset.

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