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I wear glasses and VR is fine for me. I know some people who can't use it with glasses, but I think that's for clearance reasons.

There's prescription lenses for headsets, but they're fairly expensive and IMO only worth it if you use VR a lot.




Also worth noting the foam guard on your headset can be adjusted or replaced for a better/different fit. I have three foam guards I alternate between (because people get sweaty when I have them over for Beat Saber and it's easy to swap in a clean one for the next person) and one of them didn't fit my glasses until I cut out some clearance for them. Now all three work well, and I wear glasses in VR 100% of the time.


thanks. Good to know. I'll be sure to bring my reading glasses when I go try on headsets. Something I would have likely neglected to do otherwise.


I’m pretty sure you never focus on anything up close in VR. It’s all “far away”, as someone who is near sighted I absolutely have to use glasses in VR. I suspect but am not certain some far sighted people might not need correction, as something may seem close up but really it’s just “big and far away”.

Try it!


> It’s all “far away”, as someone who is near sighted I absolutely have to use glasses in VR

Yeah, me too. As far as my eye is concerned, most things are "far away". Interestingly though, I can read things in VR "farther" than I can in real life. I am not exactly sure what the convergence looks like.


The focal plane is typically a few meters (depends on the headset)... so I guess if you don't need glasses at that distance you would be fine.

*IANA optician




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