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Offline Eagler

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Vive lenses swapping
« on: January 04, 2019, 10:22:07 AM »
Has anyone swapped out the original Vive Fresnel lenses for the Samsung gear VR lenses?

Thanks

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Offline Eagler

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Re: Vive lenses swapping
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2019, 02:44:59 PM »
Update

I swapped the lenses out in my vive pro.

It increased clarity and enlarged the sweet spot

I would recommend it to anyone not happy with the original lens experience

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Offline BTPommyB

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Re: Vive lenses swapping
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2019, 01:31:06 AM »
I would be interested to know how to acquire these lenses and fit them.

I am loving the VR experience, especially in a dog fight.

I have a 1080ti gpu. Frustratingly I get a Vive black out when it has to do the most work. When I am right on the enemy's tail and going for the kill...blank screen,crash,die.

I have a big, curve screen monitor which is the main reason I upgraded the graphics card. Now the card has to work to display on the monitor and the Vive Pro at the same time. That is a lot of computing. Surely it would make sense not to display on the monitor while the head set is in use, or at least have that option.

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Re: Vive lenses swapping
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2019, 05:42:25 AM »
There is a disable mirroring option somewhere

Offline Eagler

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Re: Vive lenses swapping
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2019, 08:37:29 AM »
start here - it has the links you need

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ckPBhIlkX0

once you swap the lenses - watch out for dust - you will need to modify a vive config file

much clearer for me with gearVR lenses

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"Masters of the Air" Scenario - JG27


Intel Core i7-13700KF | GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Elite AX | 64GB G.Skill DDR5 | EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FTW3 | Vive Pro | Warthog stick | TM1600 throttle | VKB Mk.V Rudder Pedals