modification
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Oculus Rift CV1 is great.
But there are a few problems for me.
I will try to fix them at this page.
Making of my own face pad
The official face pad is not good for me.
- Its side edge doesn't fit my glasses. (Most glasses might be same.)
- Its lower edge doesn't fit my nose. (Because I'm asian.)
- Its upper edge doesn't fit my forehead. (Because I'm asian.)
Fortunately, the face pad is removable from Rift.
So I will try to make my own face pad.
The new face pad allows 145mm wide glasses.
Materials & Tools
Item | Detail |
Hard board | Material for clips. Required sizes of plate are 150mm x 150mm. I used 2mm-thick vinyl chloride plate. It's easy to cut. |
Metal plate | Material for base of face pad. Required sizes are 200mm x 100mm. I used 0.3mm thick alminum plate. It's easy to bend. |
Foam | Material for cushion. I used foam tape. (It's common in Japan.) |
Fabric | Material for surface of cushion. Required sizes are 200mm x 100mm. |
Sheet metal snips | Tool for cutting a metal plate. |
Scissors | Tool for cutting a pattern, a hard board and fabric. |
Hot glue gun | Tool for bonding a hard boards to a metal plate. |
Double-faced adhesive tape | Tool for bonding cloth to foam. |
Patterns
- An pattern of face pad for asian who are wearing glasses. (I made my face pad with this.)
- An pattern of face pad for persons who are wearing glasses.
- An pattern of tracing of official face pad.
- Original SVG file. You can modify patterns with Inkscape, etc.
Procedure
- Print the pattern which you like.
- Cut two red parts and a black part with scissors.
- Mark edges of red parts to a hard board with pen.
- Mark edges of black part to a metal plate with pen.
- Mark edges of black part to a fabric with pen.
- Cut hard board with scissors. Adjust them so that they fit notches of Rift.
- Cut a metal plate with metal snips.
- Cut a fabric with scissors.
- Press a metal plate to hard board vertically and bend a metal plate so that it fit inside arch of hard board.
- Bond hard boards to metal plate vertically with hot glue gun. And check fitting with notch of Rift.
- Coat edges of metal plate with glue as injury prevention.
- Stick foam to metal plate with tape.
- Stick fabric to foam with tape.
Finished face pad
Here is comparison of my face pad with official one.