The Bigscreen Beyond is a small and lightweight VR headset that in part achieves its small size and weight by requiring custom fitting based on a facial scan. [Val’s Virtuals] managed to improve fitment even more by redesigning a facial interface and using a 3D scan of one’s own head to fine-tune the result even further. The new designs distribute weight more evenly while also providing an optional flip-up connection.
It may be true that only a minority of people own a Bigscreen Beyond headset, and even fewer of them are willing to DIY their own custom facial interface. But [Val]’s workflow and directions for using Blender to combine a 3D scan of one’s face with his redesigned parts to create a custom-fitted, foam-lined facial interface is good reading, and worth keeping in mind for anyone who designs wearables that could benefit from custom fitting. It’s all spelled out in the project’s documentation — look for the .txt file among the 3D models.
We’ve seen a variety of DIY approaches to VR hardware, from nearly scratch-built headsets to lens experiments, and one thing that’s clear is that better comfort is always an improvement. With newer iPhones able to do 3D scanning and 1:1 scale scanning in general becoming more accessible, we have a feeling we’re going to see more of this DIY approach to ultra-customization.
Well, certainly better than the Lilygo t-glass
I understand why the products requires a specific Apple iPhone model to get high resolution scans of the face. But that’s a significant inconvenience factor that keeps it from being an impulse purchase, at least for this Android user.
You think there’s that many users who would drop $1k on an impulse but are held back by not having an iPhone?
Yes, out of sheer principle
100.
No apple devices in this household.
Somehow everybody finds them inconvenient.
As someone who owns a big screen, this was quite literally not an inconvenience.
You simply. Drive to an apple store. That’s what I did, if you can’t. Take a bus, if you can’t? Gonna be honest you’ve probably got more problems than not being able to scan your face.
It would be helpful to support android based systems but really in reality it’s not an inconvenience
And I would have impulse bought this to replace my Index maybe 3-4 times already.
This way my more reasonable part of brain wins with comments on specs and not being 1:1 replace or upgrade.