Will Pimax sell prescription glasses to fit in your prescription lens adapter? If not, do you have a deal with a third company to make them and when should be able to order them?
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Getting the adapters is good, but without knowing how to get the lenses, it’s kinda worthless.
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Agreed…the holders need to be some sort of standard or there has to be info for the lens maker to be able to make the lens that fits the frame.
Also, how will this interface with the eye-tracking modules…is this an either or situation, as if so, that will make it a determining factor for glasses wearers as well.
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My question too. Where to get the lenses? I kept waiting for them to talk about that on the stream, but nothing!
If this have to be custom made by a local optician it’s going to be super duper expensive for custom lenses that size. I and many others had hoped they would have used one of “Zenni’s” off the shelf larger framed glasses such as the Zenni aviators, for the adapter design… The lenses would have cost $15 and shipped out in a week!
This is really important because Pimax lenses are asymetric. If you look closer you’ll see that pupils don’t come right in the center and I’m 99.9% sure the opticial down the street (and common manufacturers like Zenni) won’t be able to make this kind of custom prescription lens.
That’s why we really need an answer from Pimax.
The question about eye-tracking compatibility is also important and needs clarification too.
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Pimax doesn’t seem to be interested to answer a question that concerns half of their customers…
@SweViver can you ask them plz?
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About prescription lenses, I will feedback your requirements to the product manager. They will meet to discuss the feasibility of your requirements. Thank you.
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Great! thank you ^^
If Pimax can’t produce lenses, I’m pretty sure VrOptician or WidmoVr would be interrested to produce them.
About Vr Lens Lab they told me 5 months ago “we are looking into offering more options but can’t tell an exact time frame for this at the moment.”
But their most recent lenses are for HTC Vive and Rift CV1.
Were can i download the 3d-printed file from for lens adapter?
Think they will release it on October
Any opticians / anywhere that sells prescription glasses (including online ones) will be able to fit lenses to any frame you give them.
Just google glasses in your country and there’s bound to be websites where you can get glasses reglazed.
They dont need to be any kind of standard size, they have machines that scribe lenses from the actual frame you send in to them.
Unfortunately not. Classic prescription lenses are symmetrical, pupils are supposed to be in the middle.
Unlike other headsets, Pimax lenses are asymmetric: sweetspot and pupils are 1/3 inner side. Even if you remove them and give them to any optitian (and risk to badly scratch them), I doubt any optitian can make them. Not because of dimentions but because of concavity. Most of optician aren’t formed to make this kind of custom lenses and any error will cause distortion, blur or so 
And btw, you can’t adjust existing glasses lenses in Pimax frames because of dimensions.
Why not to go to the local optician in your town? I’m not recommending online order this kind of products becouse you will probably not get what you asked.
I answered your question 25 min ago
The best solution are companies I mentionned before, of course if they have a partnership with Pimax or if they could analyse every aspect of custom lenses.
It’s important to understand these lenses are very specific, I don’t know many objects using prescription lenses with asymmetric pupil position like this.
I’m not quite agree with you answer. I’m using symetrical lenses in my glasses for HMD and all is fine except I see frame at the very edges. Pimax adapter will eliminate that frame and that’s all what I want.
Ok so how comes my glasses work fine then, they are just lenses in a frame stuck just in front of the pimax lenses just like a prescription lens insert would be.
You dont need to remove the pimax lenses at all, its an insert, i’m not quite sure what you are smoking.
Local opticians are a rip off. I’ve been getting mine online from Zeni, and they are always perfect. Top notch! No different from those I’ve purchased locally for $150.
My current “Pimax glasses” cam from Zeni and work fantastic, as well as only costing $15. A shame we can’t use Zeni for these…
@Yata_PL @geoffvader
You didn’t understand I’m talking about the Pimax adapter and not glasses. Of course glasses fit well.
BUT Pimax adapter covers the whole lenses.
Lenses are concave or convex, depending on your vision disorder, and made to be centered on your eye. If you put classic lenses in the Pimax adpater, your eye will be over a thickness that won’t fit to correct your vision AND peripheral vision will also be affected.
I made a top view schema, you’ll se that’s easy to understand.
Symmetrical lenses:
Asymmetrical lenses:
It’s mathematical! Anyone without optical knowledge can understand
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Thanks for view schema. I have very good optician in my town , I think it will be no problem for them if I show them where I need lens sweetspot ( focus point) They already did for me many custom inserts for sun glasses and scuba mask. And they never asked more than 50~70$ Thats in my country we are cheap & slave but with qualified services.
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Thats why all opticians measure your IPD when fitting glasses, all glasses are like this. Yes, with my IPD and my glasses the centre point of the lens is roughly one third in from where my nose is. They cut the lenses to fit YOU, your IPD and the exact frames you’ve selected.
All glasses are like this, the pimax adapter is absolutely no different from a regular pair of glasses, just no arms and it clips in to the headset.
What you are describing is exactly how all prescription lenses need to be fitted to each person.