I have HP Reverb G2. I am astigmatic with quite a difference between correction prescription each eye.
For HP Reverb, I ordered a pair of ‘Distance’ values, single vision spectacles.
They worked great, and still do.
I bought HTC Vive Pro 2.
I tried my ‘VR goggles’ and the image was blurry.
I went to the optician, Boots, and they optimetered my eyes, finding my prescription has changed. They sold me a new pair of ‘VR goggles’.
They were blurry.
Boots opticians do NOT offer a home visit service and told me they cannot help me further.
I called into AB Optics in Solihull. They offer home visits. I took the Vive Pro 2 HMD with me. The optimeterist went and fetched a pair of half frame ‘Trial Frames’, which didn’t interfere with the internals of the Vive HMD.
I am having a home visit next week. We will nail this one down.
If you have issues with eye glasses and your HMD, go staight to a GOOD optimeterist who offers home visits.
Google vr optician. You can find lenses there specific for your headset. I have lenses for my Reverb G2 and they work perfectly! You just send them a copy of your prescription and they’ll send the lenses. Not sure about any special prescriptions, but you can check out the web site. They were pretty quick too.
VR optician is great. Bought my glasses for the G2 and now for my Quest 3 there. They fit well to the headset and, well, just work like my glasses Astigmatism is also no problem, they produce according to your prescription, not just single vision lenses.
I think it was less than 1 week from order to delivery.
Valve Index - no problem with specs (eye glasses)
HP reverb - no problem with specs
Varjo Aero - needs inserts (VR Optician work well)
Quest 3 and after market head strap- no problem with specs
While inserts can be helpful or nesessary, not having inserts makes it easier to share a VR headset, especially with the Quest 3 which my wife likes to use and when friends and family visit.
The companies that supply headset fitting inserts want to know your prescription numbers to make the lenses,
What I am talking about is an Optician coming to my house and ascertaining the numbers with a ‘Trial frame’ inside the headset.
The optician will fit known lens discs in the Trial Frames and ask me how is the clarity of my image in the HMD.
Bear in mind, the apparent focus distance of VR headsets is not "distance’ i.e. infinity, rather it is much closer. On the G2 that is 1.5 metres, meaning your eyes must be able to adapt to focus at that distance IRL. I can use a G2 without glasses.
Most other headsets seem to have a similar focus distance, but not all. My Pimax Crystal for instance, which I use now, has a focus distance of only 1 metre, meaning I have to use reading glasses that allow me to focus that close. I had a custom pair of plastic framed glasses made that were dialled in for 1 metre, for that headset.
Astigmatism is also no problem, they produce according to your prescription, not just single vision lenses.
