i got my hands on four of the best vr prescription lens inserts and i tested them all out on my
oculus quest 2. so i wanted to do a review and comparison video but also provide you with a
buying guide of how to pick the best vr lens inserts for you and your device so let's focus in
hey howdy everybody this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, and i do videos all about the eyes
now i've been getting a lot of questions about vr prescription lens inserts and if you're somebody
that hates wearing your glasses while you're playing vr or you don't wear contact lenses
then these vr lenses are an excellent option for you so i actually reached out to a bunch of
different companies and four of them responded and actually offered to send me a free set of lenses
to test out on my oculus quest 2. now this video is not sponsored by any of these companies in fact
i don't even have a discount code to give you so they're all starting off on a level playing field
so i'll go through a bunch of different categories in this comparison and review video
but stay towards the end and i'll give you my recommendations of what vr lenses might work
the best for you so let's get into it the four companies that i got lenses from were vr wave
vr lens lab vr optician and real optics the first category is the accuracy of the prescription this
is probably the most important part if they are made wrong you are not going to see clearly and
you're not going to like them so i took all the lenses to my office and measured
the prescription in the lenses checked optical centers pd measurements and i'm happy to say
every single lens from every company was made perfectly to my prescription the next category
comfort is probably where i found the biggest difference between the different lenses one thing
to note here really quick is that vr wave and real optics have the magnetic lens design meaning they
have a base that you stick in the device on the lens pieces and then they have the lens that has
magnets on there that you can stick onto the base it makes it very convenient because if
you're going to just pass off your device to let someone else play you can just pop out the lenses
really easily the one downside to that and this is probably my biggest issue is that they take up
more room inside of the device and they actually stick out a little bit and this is where i found
the biggest issue with the vr wave lenses i was only able to wear these lenses for maybe
five minutes of max because i have a big honking nose and the second setting on the oculus quest 2
i barely had enough room to put my nose in between the lenses and so it actually pinched my nose and
even after two minutes it would leave a mark and so people that even have smaller pd's than i do or
maybe bigger noses than i do you probably want to stay from the vr wave lenses just because they'll
pinch on your nose now this was the oculus quest 2. i know with other devices the lens pieces have
a different design and so they'll probably have a little bit more room and probably won't even have
that issue but with the oculus quest 2 there's hardly any room and it actually hurts to play with
this vr wave lenses unfortunately there was way more room with the real optics lenses it didn't
pinch my nose you could tell that it took up more room in the device but it actually didn't bug me
at all so keep this in mind if you're looking for the magnetic style lenses and you have the oculus
quest 2 and your pd setting is on two or one and maybe if you have a bigger nose then i'd get the
real optics lenses because they'll be way more comfortable than the vr wave lenses now with vr
optician and vr lens lab they both have the design where you actually just push the lens right onto
the eyepiece of the device super easy to put on and the benefits here is there is a lot more room
inside of the device you could sometimes barely even tell that you had lenses in there so that's
probably one of the biggest benefit between this design versus the magnetic style just really quick
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further videos like this one now the next category is ease of use with the installation and removal
of the lenses and like i said before the magnetic style you can just remove the lens off the magnets
if you're having to switch the device from person to person so it makes it super convenient
i also found that the push-on style lenses weren't that difficult or annoying to remove for me
but i can see if you're switching the device a lot and you don't want to wear down the eyepieces
a lot from pulling on that push-on style then then the magnetic style would be more convenient
but as far as just removing it it didn't take any extra time for me to remove the push-on style
lenses at all so that was a close one but i can see how it could be more convenient with the
magnetic style the next category is the quality of the lenses across the board there wasn't one
that stood out to me they were all great quality of the lens coatings the anti-reflective coating
or the blue blocker coating there was one that stood out to me and that was a vr wave
vr wave kind of has a red reflection coating is actually really cool looking
compared to the other ones which are typically what i'm used to seeing the ar coatings will
have kind of a green reflection and maybe the blue block coatings have this blue or
purple reflection but vrwave kind of has this red reflection coating really cool to look at
but when i'm actually comparing in the device i couldn't tell the difference between any of the
lenses and so they're all great they all worked great this next category is actually the packaging
and the cases that the lenses came with vr lens lab and vr wave both have those circular cases
hard cases that you can put in the lenses super nice super convenient to carry around the lenses
vr optician kind of has the nice classic glasses cases that you can put in there and then real
optics has a really nice hard shell case that you can put the vr lenses in there as well
i really liked all of them all of them have great designs if i had to pick one it would be
vr optician because i do like the classic glasses look and it can kind of double
as a glasses case if you ever need it so it kind of has a double use there but they're
all great i do have to know one thing about vr wave is their packaging that it comes with
does seem a little bit more professional it actually comes with a legit card with your
prescription on there a hard credit card like card with your prescription lenses that makes it
feel more professional and more official it also comes with extra magnetic bases just in case if
something happens to one of your bases so there's definitely a lot of value in the vr wave lenses
the next category is the price of the lenses and this is probably one of the most complicated
categories because there are so many different variables that can influence the price of the
lenses in general the higher your prescription is the more expensive your vr lenses may be
because the higher prescription they want to use the higher index lenses to make the lenses thinner
and lighter now in general if you want to add on anti-reflective coating or a blue block coating
that's usually an add-on price so it can make your vr lenses more expensive now some companies will
include the anti-reflective coating into the price or maybe the blue block coding into the price
it definitely depends on the company and i'll put links down below in the description so you
can check them out but in general the prices are pretty similar especially with the base price of
the lenses and one thing to consider is a lot of them you do have to pay shipping and so that
does increase the price one company stood out is probably in the most simple pricing and probably
the best value especially if you want to add on coatings or if you have a higher prescription
and that's real optics at the time of making this video it's eighty dollars for your set of lenses
that's even for a higher prescription eighty dollars if you want to add anti-reflective
coating on there eighty dollars if you wanna add anti-reflective coating and blue block
coating on there eighty dollars if you need to add prism in your lenses eighty dollars
and on top of that it's free shipping so that price actually includes shipping in there eighty
dollars for your lenses probably the best value that you can find compared to the other companies
all the other vr lens companies have a similar pricing structure and that's why real optics kind
of stands out so definitely makes it more simple and definitely probably the best value especially
if you have a higher prescription and want those coatings on there now i do want to mention this
that real optics and they are upfront and honest about this in fact it says right on their website
right at the top that it might take three to four weeks for you to get your lenses
and so just expect a month or expect a while to get those lenses i think vr wave is similar
they're usually honest about how things are going their production time and their shipping time so
let me go over my recommendations when you're looking for vr prescription lenses should you
add on ar coding the anti-reflective coating and this is a yes for me the anti-reflective coating
will cut down on a little extra glare or god rays that you might get from having an added lens
inside of your device and so the anti-reflective coating will help light bouncing between the two
lenses inside of your device and so it definitely cuts down on more glare should you get blue block
coating on your lenses this one i recommend checking out my other videos specifically the
one about vr and blue light if it's an add-on price to your lenses then i'd probably say no
the reason being is because blue light as far as helping with digital eye strain it's still
kind of up in the air some studies show yes it can help some studies show no it doesn't help
if you already know that by wearing blue blocking glasses definitely helps with
your digital eye strain then i would get it but otherwise i don't think it's worth the extra cost
if it's included in the price might as well get it vr option actually sent out two sets of lenses
to me one with the ar coding and one with the blue block coding so i was able to compare them side by
side and i could barely tell a difference when i was playing vr there's maybe maybe barely a color
difference with the blue block coding when i'm comparing side by side on a white background but
it's definitely not something that you'll notice when you're actually playing vr with the lenses
if it's included in the price i consider if it's an extra add-on ooh that's a tough one for me but
i'm probably going to lean towards a no a lot of different companies offer plano vr lenses meaning
they don't have a prescription in there but they have the anti-reflective coating or the blue
block coating on there i wouldn't do that i do not think it's actually worth the money to get those
lenses if you want a magnetic style design lenses for the convenience and you have an oculus quest 2
then i would get the real optics lenses there's definitely more room it won't pinch your nose
if you have a different device then vr wave lenses will be great now out of these four
lenses which one did i personally like the best i definitely like the push on lens style better than
the magnetic style just because you have more room in the device it wasn't crushing my nose
and so vr lens lab and vr optician were definitely my pick and both are similar in pricing and lens
options so definitely look there those are my pick for sure now there are different lens companies
that i didn't get a chance to test out widmo vr and also frames direct with oculus quest 2 do make
vr lenses for the oculus quest 2. and i didn't get a chance to test those out but i've heard
great things with movr is one of those push-on style lenses and so i'm kind of curious to test
that one out because i think that would probably be a good comparison and maybe be better than the
the other two push-on style ones but widmo vr would be another option to look at for sure
now there's a lot more detail that i could go into each individual vr lenses if you have any
questions about any of these vr lenses leave them in the comments below i do try my best
to answer any of the questions that i get and if you're interested in more in-depth review videos
about any of these lenses let me know and i'll definitely look into making a video specifically
about one of these lenses I'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy,focusing on you and
your eyes check out my other videos right there stay focused and i'll see you in the next video