Some questions on a "first time" HMD build
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:39 am
I'm building a simple HMD using my Galaxy S3 for the display and the enclosure detailed here: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-3D- ... martphone/
My vision is pretty bad (far-sighted, way moreso in my left eye), so I'm expecting to modify the enclosure's design and mess with lens placement (picked up two 5x loupes at a local craft store) to get it to look right. The problem is that I want to be able to view full screen 2D content as well from time to time, so I'm planning to make the lenses interchangeable with a 2x bookmark Fresnel lens like how the Xcope was intended to be packaged. Playing around with positioning of the Fresnel and the phone though, I can not find a comfortable position/orientation to save my life. I'm not concerned with wide FOV for this build, just something to play with and hopefully get some ideas from as I go. After searching all over the forum I haven't been able to find anything that explains a solution to this dilemma. Have any of you experimented around with this to find an ideal setup for viewing 2D content? Anyone with far-sighted vision that's figured out how to compensate for it?
Any tips/advice or previous experiences would be great.
My vision is pretty bad (far-sighted, way moreso in my left eye), so I'm expecting to modify the enclosure's design and mess with lens placement (picked up two 5x loupes at a local craft store) to get it to look right. The problem is that I want to be able to view full screen 2D content as well from time to time, so I'm planning to make the lenses interchangeable with a 2x bookmark Fresnel lens like how the Xcope was intended to be packaged. Playing around with positioning of the Fresnel and the phone though, I can not find a comfortable position/orientation to save my life. I'm not concerned with wide FOV for this build, just something to play with and hopefully get some ideas from as I go. After searching all over the forum I haven't been able to find anything that explains a solution to this dilemma. Have any of you experimented around with this to find an ideal setup for viewing 2D content? Anyone with far-sighted vision that's figured out how to compensate for it?
Any tips/advice or previous experiences would be great.