How to reduce lens fogging/condensation?

[Gracey Face]

While roleplaying as someone with crippling cataracts is a novel idea, it's difficult to actually play.

[LigmaLlama]

Originally posted by Richard Stroker:

While roleplaying as someone with crippling cataracts is a novel idea, it's difficult to actually play.

Wear the headset correctly.. and stop breathing over the lenses?

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by NoHaloInMyHalo:

Originally posted by Richard Stroker:

While roleplaying as someone with crippling cataracts is a novel idea, it's difficult to actually play.

Wear the headset correctly.. and stop breathing over the lenses?

Why even post such a stupid reply?

[FishTail [JoinUsInVR]💬GROUP]

What headset do you have, and what face gasket material is contacting your face, and where along the perimeter of your face does it leave an air gap?

I have the valve index, and used to have the Vive, and I do a lot of workouts in VR, and have never had a fog up issue.

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by Fish_Tail JoinUsInVR Group:

What headset do you have, and what face gasket material is contacting your face, and where along the perimeter of your face does it leave an air gap?

I have the valve index, and used to have the Vive, and I do a lot of workouts in VR, and have never had a fog up issue.

I have an index, I wasn't aware you could post questions about other VR headsets here...

The gasket material is contacting my face everywhere except a slight gap around my nose, however closing off this gap using a paper towel didn't fix the problem, nor does using my hand to force the headset to sit lower.


I have had a rift S and it never fogged up on me either. To be honest, it was a better headset than the index in every way if the damn thing had worked :D.

[FishTail [JoinUsInVR]💬GROUP]

Originally posted by Richard Stroker:

I have an index... I have had a rift S and it never fogged up on me either. To be honest, it was a better headset than the index in every way if the damn thing had worked :D.

If it didn't work, then it wasn't better than the Index now was it? :D I'm guessing you mean because of the poor tracking. (for the record, I tried the Rift S and found it visually less clear, and the audio was really bad)

On the Index, I and many members of our steam group get ZERO fog. Since closing off the face gasket near your nose didn't help you...

Try the other "VR Tips & Tricks" listed here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/joinusinvr/discussions/0/3356799628315530801/

[Gracey Face]

Originally posted by Fish_Tail JoinUsInVR Group:

Originally posted by Richard Stroker:

I have an index... I have had a rift S and it never fogged up on me either. To be honest, it was a better headset than the index in every way if the damn thing had worked :D.

If it didn't work, then it wasn't better than the Index now was it? :D I'm guessing you mean because of the poor tracking. (for the record, I tried the Rift S and found it visually less clear, and the audio was really bad)

On the Index, I and many members of our steam group get ZERO fog. Since closing off the face gasket near your nose didn't help you...

Try the other "VR Tips & Tricks" listed here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/joinusinvr/discussions/0/3356799628315530801/

The tracking was perfect after that massive update they had a while ago to fix the firmware. What the problem was is that the headset would just completely disconnect after 20m to 1h of gameplay. It's a problem that no one including Oculus's support seems to know the reason for. Speculation I have seen and seems most reasonable to me is that even though the requirements just say USB 3.0 some 3.0 ports can't deliver enough voltage so when it goes undervoltage the headset freezes up and then the GPU thinks it's been disconnected.

I couldn't be bothered building another PC and potentially ending up with the exact same problem at the end of it so just got an index. If it wasn't for that problem the Rift would have been better. Index comes with an actual power brick rather than feeding from the USB which is why I got it.

Index's image is far less clear for me visually, field of view is smaller and the sweet spot is incredibly tiny. Admittedly I don't know how the sound compares as I never bothered with the Rift's sound, just used my headphones. The index does have surprisingly good sound at least.

I'll look up that section.

Having looked it up, I have tried all of those except dehumidifying the room as I don't have an AC unit/dehumidifier. I wonder if that would help, but can barely be bothered to spend yet more money on this waste of time :D. I live in the North of England and, assuming the weather thing on my phone is accurate, it's 100% humidity here 110% of the time so this might be the cause...

[FishTail [JoinUsInVR]💬GROUP]

Originally posted by Richard Stroker:

I live in the North of England and, assuming the weather thing on my phone is accurate, it's 100% humidity here 110% of the time so this might be the cause...

Ouch. That's crazy high humidity. That's they the JoinUsInVR thread above says to use AC and dehumidifiers.

If you reply there, others from the group that live in the UK might have other ideas for you to try.