Please Pimax team, don’t do what they’ve done on the Samsung Odyssey, but rather keep it as it is on the Vive:
the visual feedback in the form of a window, that conveniently indicates the numerical value of your IPD in real time
while you’re adjusting it.
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Can you explain it more clearly, thank you.
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I think he means that he wants something like this when you turn the IPD dial
Am I right @ioi655321?
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Yes, that is what he is talking about
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when adjusting the IPD on the pimax there should pop up the corresponding IPD value inside the headset.
when you turn the IPD knob on the vive you get realtime feedback on the screen, showing the exact IPD value meassured in millimeter
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Should be pretty easy for Pimax since they’re already running their own renderer, they can always simply inject a bar like that. Or alternatively I think SteamVR also offers overlay’s.
Good idea !
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Exactly, thank you for promptly providing a screenshot!
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I see, I will discuss it with our team. Thank you
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Thanks, it really makes a difference when readjusting after demoing to other people.
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Do you know how Vive measures the distance? Is there some kind of digital rule integrated into the headset or is it simply hardcoded to the knob position?
And if the latter, is there a way to re-calibrate the measurement?
As I saw the video of Pimax implementation, I assume they can only move the lenses by turning the knob. If there is no way to re-calibrate this movement correctly, then the visual IPD in the view will be meaningless, because it will not be reproducible on different headsets (with different hardcoded values).
Having the absolutes will only make sense, if you could grab two different headsets and if set them to the same IPD values, they will actually have the same IPDs.
Never opened my VIVE but I’m pretty sure they use a rotary encoder on the rail the screens are mounted on.
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No idea how they do it, but as @ioi655321 wrote, it probably is a rotary encoder