There is a lot of talk about glare issues, but I'm not seeing many discussions about distortions/blur caused by lens.
I've seen just one post about it, and a few related comments, so that made me wonder whether I've got two problem units in a row, or people just not noticing these things.
Now, I expect to get some blur/distortions and color fringing at the very edges of the lens, however on both my first AVP, and the current one, there are blurry areas beyond the edges.
I've ruled out the inserts by removing them and using contacts. Also, I've used the same inserts with both units and they behaved differently.
Turning off foveated rendering in accessibility ("Ignore eye motion to stabilize") didn't change the blurry areas as well.
What's interesting, it was always on the left lens, on both units I had, and the demo unit at the store. The few reports I've seen on this also mentioned left eye only. So, theoretically it could be some weird software issue, or a combination or software and hardware, as they manifest differently on different devices.
How to reproduce. Open a window with a lot of text or contrast elements. Close one eye and move your head around, looking at the same spot. Repeat on the other side. You may get some temporary blurriness due to eye tracking/foveated rendering, but if you do it slowly, it should work.
Here is a mockup of how it looks like. The yellow highlights the blurry areas.
Unit 1:
Overall not bad, but the left lens had a pretty big blurry spot on the right side. The right side was great. When using both eyes, it wasn't that apparent, as the brain just compensates with another eye. However I had a bit of an eye strain when looking in that area.
Unit 2.
Better side-to-side clarity, but larger blurry area on top. And it also has this weird area that I marked with a yellow line that is also slightly blurry and has a sort of barrel distortion. You normally don't see it, but if you move your head around, it's visible, especially on text. The right side is better. This unit gives me less eye strain, but that weird distortion line in pretty much the center of FOV is very annoying.
I've seen just one post about it, and a few related comments, so that made me wonder whether I've got two problem units in a row, or people just not noticing these things.
Now, I expect to get some blur/distortions and color fringing at the very edges of the lens, however on both my first AVP, and the current one, there are blurry areas beyond the edges.
I've ruled out the inserts by removing them and using contacts. Also, I've used the same inserts with both units and they behaved differently.
Turning off foveated rendering in accessibility ("Ignore eye motion to stabilize") didn't change the blurry areas as well.
What's interesting, it was always on the left lens, on both units I had, and the demo unit at the store. The few reports I've seen on this also mentioned left eye only. So, theoretically it could be some weird software issue, or a combination or software and hardware, as they manifest differently on different devices.
How to reproduce. Open a window with a lot of text or contrast elements. Close one eye and move your head around, looking at the same spot. Repeat on the other side. You may get some temporary blurriness due to eye tracking/foveated rendering, but if you do it slowly, it should work.
Here is a mockup of how it looks like. The yellow highlights the blurry areas.
Unit 1:
Overall not bad, but the left lens had a pretty big blurry spot on the right side. The right side was great. When using both eyes, it wasn't that apparent, as the brain just compensates with another eye. However I had a bit of an eye strain when looking in that area.
Unit 2.
Better side-to-side clarity, but larger blurry area on top. And it also has this weird area that I marked with a yellow line that is also slightly blurry and has a sort of barrel distortion. You normally don't see it, but if you move your head around, it's visible, especially on text. The right side is better. This unit gives me less eye strain, but that weird distortion line in pretty much the center of FOV is very annoying.