I was hoping the cloth design and spongy face bit would prevent this, but it feels as if the cloth material is actually coated around a thin plastic intershell that obviously won’t breathe like even an artificial fabric could.

Now, I live in Queensland and the room I was testing in had poor A/C, add to that I’m a bit of a sweater and your experience may vary. Unfortunately, this happened with the View.

Often whilst using VR I find that the viewer fogs up, my glasses fog up and my forehead becomes a little moister than I would like. The elephant in the VR room is a bit of a sticky one: sweat and condensation. It wasn’t a major issue but with having both glasses and the lenses and a source of light it occasionally caused a bit of wonk. On several occasions, I actually choose to turn off the lights (thanks, Google Assistant, IFTTT and Philips Hue). This strapping location also resulted in more light bleed through the bottom of the View than I would have liked. It makes it hard to hide what you’ve been doing! This means you get uneven pressure on your face and it’s only really ‘gripping’ to your forehead, something that is obvious when you take it off and you’ve got a temporary red VR mark across your forehead. The strap actually attaches to the top 1/2 of the side of the View and not in the middle and many other units do. This made it less comfortable than it could have been, it seems this is caused by the asymmetrical placement of the strap attachments. The View feels light on the face, however, whilst I didn’t find it “heavy” I did find I had to tighten the head strap more than I would have liked to get it to stay in place. If you’re rocking some Dame Edna style eyewear I’m not guaranteeing you anything! The big news here is it fits over glasses, seamlessly, or should I say it fits over my glasses seamlessly. The Soft covering of the headset is silky to hold and the foam “face bit” is more comfortable that another VR headset I’ve tried.

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