If you think it’s whining to be annoyed that your vision is filled with white haziness along the edges of the displays when you watch a movie on your new $3500 device…then that is pretty interesting.
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This reminds me of the attempt to buy a large screen tv with no glare. Had big signs saying no glare. And special anti glare coating. But got it home and it’s full of glare.
Or back in the day when Apple stopped selling matte screened MacBooks. Major crisis. All my MacBooks and iMacs have tons of glare. I just learned to ‘look through’ it.
Many many glare-gates in the past.
Or back in the day when Apple stopped selling matte screened MacBooks. Major crisis. All my MacBooks and iMacs have tons of glare. I just learned to ‘look through’ it.
Many many glare-gates in the past.
Gets a bit worse, though, when it's inside a tiny headset where your eyes are pressed right up against the screens.
For the record I did get mine fitted and see the glare at home now. You have to remember the experience at the store is highly curated and also the bright lighting above are unlike what most of us are going back home to. In a more subtle lit room I think it's more noticeable.
That’s exactly what the problem is. The glare is only evident in darker situations. In their demo spaces, there’s no way you’ll be able to tell.
Yeah exactly. Maybe 20-40% of screen has some degree of haze at different times depending on what you watch ALL THE TIME.
It’s almost like the light from the lenses is reflecting off my eyes back onto the screen and causing an artifact/halo. I don’t know…
So are we basically out of luck and forced to return the AVP if the glare is too bothersome? Disappointing..
Yeah, I have it too. Like a white haziness at the edges of your vision, right? As others say, worse if watching something with a dark immersive background. Which is a shame because in all other ways watching something with a dark immersive background is incredible! Not sure it’s bad enough to ruin the experience entirely but it is a bit annoying…
Think it’s something they could improve with a software update or just a limitation of the hardware?
Think it’s something they could improve with a software update or just a limitation of the hardware?
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It’s not something that we can be corrected by software. This is a physical limitation of optics.
For people experiencing this:
I don’t have one but I’m trying to see if this impacts the severity or changes the glare in some way.
Apparently you can manually adjust the lenses in the settings. I think it’s a fine adjustment of how far the physical screens are.
Can anyone who’s having this issue try adjusting this setting and report back on what effect (positive or negative) it has on the glare? I think it would be a good troubleshooting step and I’m not sure if anyone has tried it yet.
I’ve tried repeatedly, doesn’t change much. The last thing I can think of attempting is trying a prescription lens. I’ll bring mine over to the Apple Store to test this week. If that fails I’ll probably return it and hope for a better 2nd gen.
I don't have as much experience with VR headsets, but from reading the comments of people who do, the glare is inherent in the lens design of VR headsets these days. Not even mighty Apple can warp the laws of physics unfortunately.
It's not noticeable in bright settings. But, unfortunately, I don't want to bask in daylight at 10pm when I'm trying to watch a movie on my AVP.
It's not noticeable in bright settings. But, unfortunately, I don't want to bask in daylight at 10pm when I'm trying to watch a movie on my AVP.
You've tried high contrast scenes, like watching a movie inside one of the darkened environments?
The glare exists and it’s not caused by the outside lights. So, I wonder if its a software issue since it’s coming from the screens.
The problem is the lens adjustment is just a black screen with goggles. Once it lines up it allows you to double click the Digital Crown. I wish it was an image and once it was clear you could select it is good. It doesn’t really let you play around with it.
I think if it’s something inherent in the design and I know there’s nothing I can do to fix it, I’ll probably be able to get past it. It’s certainly less annoying than the light that manages to bleed through my closed blinds reflecting off my TV when I try to watch a movie with dark scenes during the day and I’ve lived with that for years.
I think sometimes things become less annoying when you accept there’s nothing you can do to change them, and I’m betting the glare issue will be like that.
I think sometimes things become less annoying when you accept there’s nothing you can do to change them, and I’m betting the glare issue will be like that.
You could watch anything that’s typical brightness (scenes with sunlight, etc) you’ve bought from iTunes, and watch it in the Cinema environment. That would be a good way to test. It’s meant to mimic the dark experience of a movie theater. I watch anything in there, and the white haziness along the bottom to side edges of my vof is pretty unenjoyable.
Yeah. It’s such an impressive device, I’m hoping I don’t too often find myself in the situation of dealing with the glare. We’ll see!
I think the test will be whether I watch movies in the immersive movie theatre mode or not. The glare is worse in that mode because the background is so dark, but the overall effect of the giant screen is stunning. I could reduce the glare if I don’t watch movies in that mode, so if I choose to watch movies in that mode anyway then I guess the glare can’t be bothering me too badly…
Has anyone had any luck with different light seals helping to minimize the internal glare?
I got a better fit seal that blocks out light leaking from around my temples that was causing some glare, but I wonder if a seal with a different depth might help with the glare that occurs in a totally dark room?
I got a better fit seal that blocks out light leaking from around my temples that was causing some glare, but I wonder if a seal with a different depth might help with the glare that occurs in a totally dark room?
It's not magically - it's Apple dropping the ball again - if fitting the Vision Pro is that important Apple should not let them out without a fitting.
It has nothing to do with the light seal. Glare seems to be a problem with pancake lenses on all VR headsets.