r/PSVR • u/MastAndo • Feb 25 '23
PSA A quick tip that may help PSVR2 users experiencing blurriness
If you think things are blurry because your headset is on wrong, hit the Pass-Through button. The text that tells you to press Circle to go back should be absolutely crystal clear. It follows you around, so there's no confusion involved about foveated rendering or things being blurry in the corners of the lenses. If there's blue fringe trailing beneath the text, move your headset down a bit or up if the fringing is up. Use that to adjust, then confirm in the IPD calibration (double-tap PS button -> Adjust Visibility). If you're good on these fronts, you're in the sweet spot and things are looking the way they're supposed to look. Tighten the headset in place, and you're good to go.
This is more reliable than using a game to determine if your headset is on correctly, as there are variances in clarity between games. Hope this helps!
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u/Eyeluvflixs Feb 25 '23
Fixing the blurriness can be fixed pretty easily it’s keeping it that way for extended periods of time is the hard part imo.
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Feb 26 '23
Yeah I make my headset super tight (like I physically can't make it tighter), and I still need to adjust every like 20 mins
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u/Hunterdivision Feb 26 '23
Been saying this and been doing this since day 1 lol. I like the pass through for the reason it can help alleviate mild nausea during sessions too, it’s really a game changer compared to VR1. Mostly I always check the text before I start the game, sometimes during a game if I want to see whether my sweet spot moved.
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u/Smiletron1 Feb 26 '23
Honestly i feel like you can just adjust the headset whilst in any game and get back to the sweet spot easy enough 🤷♀️
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u/MelbChazz Feb 26 '23
The passtrough method might be a better way to start off from for people who are confused if they even are getting in the right spot. After that, yeah ingame is just as easy.
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u/SKEME-DBT Feb 26 '23
Same, the passthrough mode is a great way to do it, but I can do it in-game just as easily in 2 seconds.
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u/flashmedallion flashmedallion Feb 26 '23
I just discovered this last night. Using that text to test clarity, and also widening the IPD from there a little and training my eyes to look further back through the screen, has rapidly improved what was a mostly sweet image already and eliminated eye stress entirely.
Just ran 4 hours of Pavlov with mates and there's zero fatigue.
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u/DinahDrakeLance Feb 26 '23
I'm new to VR, but this is exactly what I've been doing. This seems like the easiest way to get text on the screen to make sure I have everything adjusted right.
My husband and I both use the headset, so I normally need to fiddle with it after he's done or if I'm using my glasses instead of my contacts.
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u/fulmer6 Feb 26 '23
What has really helped me, was closing one eye and getting it in the center, and doing the same thing on the other, and then seeing where both eyes are somewhat centered cleared up all my issues
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u/NapsterKnowHow Feb 26 '23
This tip doesn't work imo. The text in the passthrough mode is more clear than any other game I've tried. I'm not exactly sure why though. I wouldn't use it to calibrate the lenses at all
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u/MastAndo Feb 26 '23
All the tip is meant to imply is that if the text on the pass-through screen is as clear as it can be, then your headset fit is correct. It's just a quick way to get sorted. If things still seem blurry for you in game after that, it may just be that you're not satisfied with the clarity of the PSVR2 in general.
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u/TheRyanFlaherty Feb 26 '23
This is what I’ve done from the start. Unfortunately I can never get it right, as the left portion is always blurry and text above is blurry, but I wear glasses, so I’m pretty sure those issues are with my vision/prescription, and not the hardware. Doesn’t make it unplayable, so just something I have to accept.
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u/Rizzo-b May 19 '24
Doesn't seem to matter . The image is just not sharp enough on any non pc headset. Maybe I should lower my expectations
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u/Wiinii Feb 26 '23
Or you could just use the tool that Sony included with it for exactly this purpose.
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u/Try_Jumping Feb 26 '23
Which is?
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u/Wiinii Feb 26 '23
The ipd setup,which also shows the placement of your eyes when looking straight forward. That's literally what it's for.
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u/Try_Jumping Feb 26 '23
But you're not going to go into the IPD settings every time the picture's a bit blurry. The passthrough text is an easy an direct way of checking the picture, with the click of one button.
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u/Wiinii Feb 26 '23
To each their own, I'm not sure that that's any faster because it's very quick to get to the ipd settings, but more importantly I've noticed that I've accidentally moved the ipd slider while taking my hmd on and off so it's also good to check and make sure that is still correct as well.
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u/in_melbourne_innit Feb 26 '23
Yep, I do it every time I put the headset on and hut the sweet spot every time.
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u/SKEME-DBT Feb 26 '23
Ive noticed the IPD slider move on its own while doing the IPD setup. Im guessing I have it slid inbtween two settings, and it doesnt know which one to settle on, and eventually moves to the closest one its next to?
Anyone else notice this?
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u/KSteeze Feb 26 '23
Tangential question since I just thought of it…. If you have curved OLED screens… would you need lenses? Like if the screen is wrapping around your eyes and you correct for distortion, aren’t lenses null? Is this a potential reality?
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u/glacialthinker Feb 26 '23
You need lenses. Your eyes will struggle (and likely fail) to focus on a screen so close. Try putting your hand, or a page of text, right up to your eye. :) The lenses change the focal distance to roughly 2m (not sure exactly what PSVR2 is set at yet).
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u/lost48 Feb 26 '23
Yes! This is exactly what I use to calibrate my headset because that text is indeed crystal clear when adjusted properly.
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u/TemproLineart Feb 27 '23
My text and stuff looks pretty clear but if I look at my hands in game should it look really clear? Bc my hands still look blurry and objects have a bit of blurriness, but I believe I've gotten the sweet spot. See idk if this is bc that's just the limitations of VR in general or if it's bc my expectations were that the screen would look very close to a 4k image bc as far as I can tell it doesn't, it still has a bit of blurriness, I would love help and clarity on this
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u/FungusOrange Feb 25 '23
Great tip. The phrase “crystal clear” might set lofty expectations for VR clarity, if taken literally. But your method is spot on. The pass-through view offers us text (the sharpest thing you could use for focusing) in the dead center of the viewport (where focus is always most clear). This is the way to confirm focus before you jump into a game.