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VR with visual impairment? Also some hardware questions.

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Hello!

Thought about VR for quite some times but for a good while i didn't felt like putting that kind of money into it, but now with Steam Frame on the horizon and stuff like Meta Quest 3 i have to evaulate on that one.

My problem would be too fold: as the topic title says i have visual impairment which contains of the fallowing:
-Nystagmus [uncontrollable eye movement, in my case along the x axis]
-Strabismus [misaligement of the eyes]
-Dominant right eye [5% to 15% left to right which doesn't sound like much but for the average reader: this text becomes unreadably blurry on a 1440p monitor from 50cm with my right eye, with my left eye it's unreadable even if i licking the monitor. 😄]
-Supression [The brain supresses the weaker eye in favour of the dominant.]

Those anyone with any of these conditions experience with VR? How it went?

The hardware part:
With a RTX4070 super, Ryzen7 7700, 32gig ddr5 6000mhz ram, WD Black SN750 1TB Nvme would be possible to use VR in any capacity? If yes than which existing or upcoming [like steam frame] would be in the reasonable range of my system?
[At the moment for Star Citizen, but i would like to try out MFS2024, WT sim battles etc when i finally get a HOSAS.]
 

11 hours ago, Okoslandok said:

Hello!

Thought about VR for quite some times but for a good while i didn't felt like putting that kind of money into it, but now with Steam Frame on the horizon and stuff like Meta Quest 3 i have to evaulate on that one.

My problem would be too fold: as the topic title says i have visual impairment which contains of the fallowing:
-Nystagmus [uncontrollable eye movement, in my case along the x axis]
-Strabismus [misaligement of the eyes]
-Dominant right eye [5% to 15% left to right which doesn't sound like much but for the average reader: this text becomes unreadably blurry on a 1440p monitor from 50cm with my right eye, with my left eye it's unreadable even if i licking the monitor. 😄]
-Supression [The brain supresses the weaker eye in favour of the dominant.]

Those anyone with any of these conditions experience with VR? How it went?

The hardware part:
With a RTX4070 super, Ryzen7 7700, 32gig ddr5 6000mhz ram, WD Black SN750 1TB Nvme would be possible to use VR in any capacity? If yes than which existing or upcoming [like steam frame] would be in the reasonable range of my system?
[At the moment for Star Citizen, but i would like to try out MFS2024, WT sim battles etc when i finally get a HOSAS.]
 

I purchased the Quest 3 beginning of January for a wireless stand alone HMD, to play other VR games and am quite impressed with it.  With a good 6ghz wifi connection, works well for playing PCVR games wirelessly. But you can use a good USB C cable.  I use my Pimax wired HMD for flight sim, but it demands a very high end PC to run it. I think the Quest 3 will work well with your system.  Cannot really comment on the Steam Frame, as its not out yet.

As for your visual impairment, that would be hard for anyone to really answer. What works for some, may not work for others.  

I would recommend you purchase a VR HMD, that has a return policy. Like Best Buy or Amazon.  That way, you could try it out to see if it works for you, and your PC. If it does not, then you can return it and get your money back.

 

 

Rick 

i9-14900KS OC to 5.8 Ghz | 64 GIG- G.Skill 7200 RAM | Asus ROG Maximus z790 Hero Motherboard | Gigabyte  RTX 5090 OC |  47" Samsung 4K Monitor I Pimax Crystal Super 50 HMD I Varjo Aero HMD I  Windows 11

  • 2 months later...

With your setup, Quest 3 PCVR should run fine, so hardware isn’t the main concern here. For your vision conditions, results vary a lot, so testing with a return option is the safest approach, have you tried any VR demo in-store before?

 

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