Do you have stereoscopic goggles or box goggles? Boxes make my eyes hurt after a while. The ones with lenses still put the screen pretty close but it’s a lot easier on the eyes. As a bonus, you can adjust the focus of each so you can correct for vision without mashing your glasses in there.
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glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHave you tried it? I don’t have vision problems but even I was really impressed with how “natural” it felt.
I’ve done a lot of FPV flying with older goggles and it’s exactly as you describe - focusing on a screen that feels entirely too close. Not the case at all when I used my friend’s VR headset! I think he has a second gen oculus so it’s probably even better now.
I can only fly FPV for half an hour before I get a headache but I binged like 2 hours of [VR escape room game I forgot the name of] with no issue
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have fatsharks but can’t remember exactly which, some mid range model (Dominator v2? Maybe?). I can adjust them to feel natural but after a few minutes, my head hurts and I need to close one eye. Kinda defeats the point of goggles so I mostly use my $40 AliExpress box goggles from 2016.
I’ve used some other fatsharks and it was about the same experience. My friend has whatever the newest DJI set is (before they got banned in the US) but I haven’t tried them yet.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can adjust them to feel natural but after a few minutes, my head hurts and I need to close one eye.
Are you focusing the lenses one at a time with the other eye closed and connected to a vtx? It’s weird that vr doesn’t bother you by the goggles do, all I can guess is that one lens isn’t focused perfectly.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve tried it at all - I’ve wondered if the motion tracking is the key. Maybe my brain just accepts VR and I have to force it to play along with FPV
Wahots@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Out of curiosity, what FPV goggles are you using?
I’ve been running the HDzero Box Pros and they are pretty comfortable in terms of closeness to screen. Definitely different than VR- feels more like sitting in a movie theater than binoculars. Not as pixelated as early VR or FPV either.
I wish the Index had a fan like the box pros, it helps a lot.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is a good way to put it even for non-box goggles. I’m always aware of the screen edges and it gets worse the longer I use it, probably because my eyes struggle to stay focused. But with VR, I was completely and instantly immersed.
Wahots@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It’s not too bad for me, but I’m so focused on the drone and it’s surroundings that I don’t really pay much attention to the edges. VR is largely the same way, once I’m focused on something like beatsaber.