If you need to consider progressive lenses, there are various formats and some of them have wider sweet spots so try to find them
I bought my first ones four years ago - took some getting used to, and was pretty sure I wouldn’t get any more in future. They cost me £320 (at the time that would be over $500) and one day I went to visit my Mother on my bike and stuck them in my pocket, in their case.
Yup, when I got home, the pocket was empty, despite having been zipped up. I decided not to claim on the insurance.
The funny thing afaic with spec’s is that they have been telling me for years that I need two sets - one for “distance” or everyday stuff, and one for close-up, reading, hobbies etc. Yet after I lost these all-in-ones, I tried a pair I’d got 23 years ago - and they are almost perfect. I can use them for everything, too. In fact, when I went to the optician a few weeks back, I decided to try bifocals. Yeah - that didn’t work! Headacherama! So - back to the 23 year old pair! Me happy.
Zenni.com will provide glasses with progressive noline bifocal lenses for about 50 USD. Get used to them and then get the same prescription from widmovr or vroptician for VR
Facebook’s Oculus Link out in beta today.
It makes a lot of sense to buy the (arguably) better Oculus Quest self-contained headset (higher res, OLED, better sound, good fit, exclusive hand tracking, wireless play on native titles, but same $399 price) rather than the Rift S now.
Facebook looks like they are all-on on the stand-alone headset path now. A better future fit for them I think, considering how Facebook works and makes money.
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I agree. Provided there’s no latency in the video link.
Having stand alone VR with the option to connect to PC sounds like a reasonably good idea for the future development… But frankly, I don’t see Oculus going the way we flightsimmers would want them to.
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One other good thing about the Quest is that there is a physical IPD adjustment. Also, should add, the beta is limited to these cards:
The graphics cards that officially are supported are:
- NVIDIA Titan X
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (DESKTOP ONLY - added per Oculus )
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (and all variants)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (and all variants)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16-series
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series
Early reviews show it’s hard to notice any lag, as the cable throughput is good enough. The Facebook fiber optic cable at 10 meters looks good, but that’s due out early next year. So far people are just using straight USB 3 cables ok.
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I don’t know if anyone else noticed…but in the United States…Oculus/Facebook has been running some pretty heavy air time advertisements during NFL games. I think I’ve seen the Beat Sabre Oculus/FB add about four times on Sunday.
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They are also spending a lot on ads for this:
I’m obviously not the exact demographic for this sort of thing, as I see it as some sort of horrific pastel colored no-legs dystopian nightmare. Maybe people will love it, who knows…
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Valve does something.
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IMHO Quest loooked a hair better than CV
How do you mean, @SkateZilla?
The display visuals, or the outside design…?
The way you look while you are wearing it?
Does the Quest also have a little hole one can peak through to admire oneself in the mirror?
physical design.
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I see.
Thought you might have tested the Quest. I see some people saying that the visual display clarity isn’t that much better than the Rift CV1, but that is probably with the USB 3 link. Maybe this improves with the dedicated cable?
Question for the informed…
What’s the general consensus of the HTC Vive? For generic gaming, that is.
I might have a second hand unit incoming- for testing/evaluation- but without the bases.
How does it compare to the other VR Headsets?
IIRC:
- rather expensive for what it does
- visual quality a bit worse than a Oculus Rift S
- tracking OK
- software seems to act up with some games, not the rather smooth experience like for example with Oculus.
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You need at least one base for the thing to work.
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Uhm I see…
The guy wants 200€ just for the unit without anything else…
I feel with you kome…
From time to time I also check local 2nd hand VR offerings. Then I go ‘Keep calm and njoy 4K’ 
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Eh, you know the struggle! 