I have ported my employers brain-surgery-assistant app from HL2 to ML2 as a kind of after hours side project, and the surgeons are quite pleased with the result. The issue is that MOST of the surgeons are a bit older, so they usually wear glasses. With the fit kit I am able to make that work, but the issue is that at least for some of them, the focal plane seems to jump forward and backward. I have noticed the same when I just got the device - I went to get myself contacts for development use, but that's not an option for the surgeons.
Long introduction: short question: can I somehow set the ML2 to just use one focal plane or distance, or in any case make the jump forward and backward stop? Because it's apparently nauseating to at least one of the surgeons.
Thanks for responding. Nope, not using insets, but the surgeon in question is wearing regular glasses. Using the thick distance holder and one of the larger nose clips, this actually works pretty well. Only, then the focal plane seems to jump forward and backward, making the surgeon nauseous, which is quite undesirable when you are poking is someone's brain ;). I have noticed it myself as well when I try to use the ML2 with glasses - usually I wear contacts developing for the ML2, and clearly see the difference.
Is there a way to stop the focal plane jumping? Most surgeons wear glasses, apparently.
I may not be recommended, but I can tell you sure as hell it's very much desired. I would suggest strongly looking into it. I mean, hand tracking used to be a joke, and is now pretty good. I can't imagine me being the only one having this ask. And yes, I know, Apple is following your insets route, but I don't see Vision Pro being used in operating theaters anytime soon.
Thank you. Like I said, if that focal plane jumping could be turned off, I would already be greatly helped. If you having something to test, I am very willing to help testing, and so are our surgeons
Any updates? I'm experiencing the same issues in my academic research project.
During our pilot study based on ML2, we had 5 participants who all wore glasses. All of them reported different levels of motion sickness, and none of them reported motion sickness when using HoloLens 2, so we had to switch back to our almost 5-year-old HoloLens 2 and port our project back to such outdated platform. Since we will have more than 30 participants for the final study, it is impossible for us to customize prescription lenses for everyone due to the cost in money and time.
The temporary solution we have right now is to use OS 1.1.0. We borrowed a brand new ML2 that has OS 1.1.0 built-in; it does not have the issue, but the hand tracking is barely working. Another workaround is we use tape to block all the eye trackers, then the image will be very stable.
I understand ML2 is not designed for use with normal glasses, and I also understand that doing this will make the eye tracking very inconsistent. However, I wish we could have a toggle to disable any features causing this issue to let the ML2 run in a "compatible" mode. I know some features will not work, but at least I would have some features working.
Firstly, welcome to the community, and thank for sharing your experience, and I appreciate your thorough feedback. As you've noted, Magic Leap 2 is not designed for use with regular glasses, which can affect some features like eye tracking and visual stability.
While this is not a use case we officially support, I have passed along your feedback, along with the information about your workaround with OS 1.1.0, and your suggestion of including the suggestion for a toggle to disable eye-tracking to our Voice of Customer team.
If there are any changes or updates regarding this issue, I’ll be sure to keep you informed.
Thanks again for your feedback, and good luck with your research!
