Modified Odyssey to fit my fat head

I knew the moment I put on the Odyssey that there would need to be some changes made. In fact I kept putting it back in the box each time I used it because it just wasn't comfortable and I was going to return it. A week into ownership and I was totally hooked on VR and knew I had to do something.

I first removed the foam pad and put felt in it's place. Too much light came in and the surface had sharpish edges. What I didn't expect was that the FOV and sweet spot would increase substantially, and I didn't have to wear my glasses under it like I did with the factory foam pad in place. This was frickin fantastic!

So I knew I needed foam yet had to have the unit closer to my eyes. So next I removed the rubber mask to see if there was anything I could do about modifying it. Not so much. It is what it is. I started at each side, in the middle of the curve, and lightly pried up on the plastic ring that holds the rubber piece to the headset. Then I just worked my way around until it all came up. you can see the attachment points in the picture.

after playing with the rubber ring some I came upon the idea of making the ring bigger without modifying the ring. So here we go.

I purchased a 6"x3' piece of Velcro for $8 on Amazon. I pressed it to the rubber ring, making sure the plastic ring was in place so that it held its shape.

Using a new Exacto blade I cut the Velcro following the inside of the rubber mask. It was pretty simple to use the ring as a guide without cutting the rubber.

Using a compass with a sparkly blue pen I traced the outside of the mask 3/4" out. Then cut along the line with a pair of scissors. At the top of the mask I followed the indentation in the center and after I cut it out I used a strait edge and narrowed the top to 1/2" from the mask to allow room for the forehead pad.

I purchased 3/4"x1/2" sticky backed closed cell foam weather-stripping from Lowes. It's basically memory foam material like those squishy ear plugs.

I stuck the foam to the Velcro ring following the outside shape. At the top I just ran it straight across and cut the foam with the Exacto blade, again to allow for room of the forehead pad. In addition to the face mask mod I also added a strip of the foam to the upper half of the forehead pad.

Put it all together and now I have an extremely comfortable Odyssey that fits my fat head perfectly with no light bleed.

Hope this helps.

John

Nice work there! There were many Vive users who cut the foam as well. For all the same reasons. Maybe I should try that on the Rift.

my odyssey is coming on tuesday!! right now i am looking at what is the best bluetooth aadapter to get for the odyssey

my odyssey is coming on tuesday!! right now i am looking at what is the best bluetooth aadapter to get for the odyssey

I had forgotten that I needed a Bluetooth adapter. So I went to Walmart and got a cheap Targus one. Works great. It does have to be a BT 4.0.