A research group making prosthetic legs from 3D scans found that the sockets were more comfortable if they used hard materials against soft flesh and soft materials against hard bone. They used a device with tons of actuators and force sensors to measure the squishiness of different areas on the stump.

Who are you?? How is your work so advanced? What a joy to discover your content it has been

This is a really awesome video. It's so rare to see such great descriptions like this of complex design workflows. These usually get skipped in favor of mechanical build and testing footage, so its refreshing to see such a skilled creator walk through the intent.

Yet again an incredible video. You are leaps and bounds beyond any creator I know of in terms of raw skill. It's just not that often that people with 15+ years of experience branch out to become content creators. It would be super interesting to see a video of you talking about your education / career and to kind of touch on where you picked up your unique blend of skills. It's very inspiring to see someone who is just very very good at what they do. Thanks for sharing.

The thing is that when you’re working with rigid materials you usually think “oh it’ll start to get uncomfortable cause of it’s not going to squish at all.” But in this case because it’s perfectly formed to the shape of your face there’s not really any pressure points or other places for it to start becoming uncomfortable. And the solid material allows for way better breathability because it doesn’t squish to your face. The rigidity also likely makes the whole experience feel more real because it always will move exactly with your face

Are you planning to sell this as a service? Or are you going to give this to the community? I have a Quest Pro but this would make a nice replacement for the silicone mask. The ventilation holes are a great idea.

Another jawdropping design video, I did expect a custom mask suited for your need but not a procedural application that could uses anyone's 3D scan to get their own custom model. I did a little bit of 3D too but I didn't know you could use nodes that way. This is amazing. Love the vids and all the details around the technical challenge you faced.

Great walkthrough of the Grasshopper definition.

you did everything to automatically pop these out on demand but didn't set up a website for people to send their face scans and money to? why?

This is incredible! Watching the progress was so interesting to see. I would be so interested in buying something like this, I hope you really make it publicly available one way or another

glad to see more stuff from you! always a blast watching these videos

Your creation & innovation is an INSPIRATION. Thank you & please continue raising the bar🔥

Really cool project. Do you intend to make the files available? I only have an FDM printer but I think it would be sufficient to get a good quality result.

Big screen beyond headsets are each custom, and Apple Vision Pro has a large variety of face interfaces and straps for different faces.

Excellent visual descriptions and additive graphics. I loved this whole video. Well done!

Nice job! Very cool to see the detailed walkthrough of the design and software!

Damn that first headset looks like something from the year 3000

This is awesome! Would love to buy one once I get a quest 3

Fantastic, I hope you open up a shop and expand to other HMD's. Super impressive

I need this on my face!

This is incredible work!

you are so cool. Very inspiring to see someone this proficient in a specific field!

Dude, you’re such an inspiration. Fantastic work as always ❤

Amazing. Love it, good work👍

We need this for FPV goggles !!

So cool! Your channel should be more popular-

Another extremely high quality video, absolutely amazing and I think you deserve way more subscribers

can i send you a scan and buy a mask file from you?

I like the idea of complete customization. I wonder if you could add some “meta material” properties to the print that amplify the elasticity of the plastic you’re using. Also would be cool if you could gather a number of facial scans and come up with the 10 closest designs that get you 95% of the way there. You’d just need some way to fit people that do their own phone scans to one of those designs. Finally I’d be worried about switching these out for a shared device. Maybe another interface that’s part of the mask to switch these out for multiple people.

Custom fit products do exist in several categories. People get ear impressions taken for hearing devices, noise protection devices, and stage monitor headphones. In that case as well, one would think it might get uncomfortable because it's a rigid casting, but it's not since it's shaped to your actual ear canal. I wonder, there have to be several more niche categories. Well, teeth crowns/implants. What else? Something to keep in mind though that even after machine curing cycle the resin may still not be fully inert and may be releasing hazardous chemicals, from what i heard. Might take an extra few weeks until it's safe beyond all doubt.

Phenomenal work! I'd much prefer a bit of light leakage (which I assume is minimal and goes unnoticed because it comes from multiple tiny points of the lattice), because it seems that this should eliminate fogging of displays completely. And what an amazing skillset you have, hats off to you!

Wow you are an expert on grasshopper as well.

You gotta start selling these! I would buy one in an instant! If you are concerned about the 3D printing distribution, purchasing just the stl to be printed could also be a great option. I would prefer that as I already have access to 3D printers to print one!

Excellent presentation, keep up the good work! Greetings from Japan.

You’re so incredibly skilled, it’s crazy lol

Wow, awesome stuff!

Can we send you a scan and buy the stl for a custom mask we can print at home? 😀

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I did something similar for the DJI goggles 2, fdm printed in varioshore tpu, which you can tune to be pretty marshmallow soft by underextruding and overheating it. The filament has an additive that foams when overheated. Mine was made in a combo of blender and fusion and is a one off but it’s a huge improvement over the pos that comes with the headset. I think yours is way better. I hope you’ll do more headsets, I’d certainly pay a lot for custom vr adapters and I have several vr headsets. The world needs this Oh one lesson I learned is that the 3d face scan is not a reliable shape for the mask because different parts of your face are squishy and other parts are firm, so you have to overbuild in some areas and under build in others. Your forehead is hard, your cheeks are soft, your nose is soft but don’t squish it because that gets old fast

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That's so cool! I'm interested in getting something like this for the Vision pro.

Would love this for my quest 3 and also to make custom windproof/dry eye glasses.

That looks awesome

I’ve been using the standard interface for hours a day for months, and this really makes me want to buy a form4 (oh sh*t this is pretty expensive!) and all the tools to replicate this… or you know, just send you a scan and money to get my own without the hassle 😆. Fantastic work.

great work

will this ever be available to the public?

Another great video! Love the amount of details in this one! I'm sure this is better than any solution out there. A potential problem I could see is the interface surface itself is not very breathable. I wonder if there's a way to integrate fabric into it. Creating custom form fitting fabric template sounds very difficult and interesting.

Pyott damn thats hella cool

Amazing

This is incredible work but I think most people want their facial interface to block as much ambient light as possible. And this mesh lattice design is definitely not doing that haha.

Awesome, as a snorkel / scuba hobbyist i would love to have a perfectly formed dive mask that doesnt leak or fog. with that backend infrastructure you could even just sell the 3d files generated by it to someone that sends you a facescan meaning no manufacturing or shipping costs. Very cool

I took a stab at doing something like this, but my attempt was way less sophisticated. I certainly didn't build any sort of general purpose solution. I took a scan of my face with meshroom, took a Quest 2 face gasket model from thingiverse, made a shape that could fit between them, then cut away my face. I did most of this in Fusion 360, which was *really* badly suited to it--it really struggles with anything with a lot of vertexes. My end result was not really usuable for three reasons. First, I didn't get the alignment quite right; I based the orientation mainly off the nose, but it turns out my nose doesn't point quite straight, so I ended up with the headset slightly misaligned. Second, I messed up the scale very slightly, so it fits well close to the center, but sticks out a bit from the sides of my head. Third, I didn't leave a big enough cutout for my nose. The scan of course wants to press right up against my nose, but that feels terrible. I've been meaning to take another stab at it, but I've been trying to think about how I could improve my workflow (specifically, how to avoid Fusion 360 for the boolean bits). I'm thinking Blender may be the way to go. Rhino is way too expensive for my purposes. I also printed mine on an FDM printer, which meant I needed to add a thin foam layer. This protects against the layer lines. I'd love it if you made a web tool that would take a face scan and output a printable file, though. If you do, maybe provide an option to turn off the mesh for those of us using FDM, though--that would be basically a printing torture test for FDM. You could add a few air holes for ventilation, maybe, but hundreds of fine-diameter structures would just print badly on most filament machines. Great video! Thanks for sharing.

You gotta post the files for this, incredible work!

i oh so need this for my index, i just recently picked it back up and it does nothing but rub my cheekbones raw this would solve most all of my headset issues!

I want one for my AVP! lol. Though I just got word, and my MQ3 says he'd also like one!

Oooohh yessssss like hot gravy over my brain!! Thank you! And Pssst, with your fabricated headset, can you do night vision cameras?? Or better yet, thermal??? Both!! I want Predator vision!!! ❤❤❤❤

awesome ❤

Can you make a tool, website, or something, to allow us to create the face scan and generate the file to print? Lots of us have 3d printers and would be super interested in trying this out with different materials. I've tried a couple of facial interfaces on my quest 3 and none fully covers my face, and suffer of light leak - This project os yours is very interesting for me!

I wish there was one of these for the index also

I have problems with face gaskets all the time I need a custom solution like this but I dont have a 3d printer I've considered even buying a beyond headset just for the custom fit

It would be awesome if someone could make an APP from this that would kick out a STL people can 3D print!

Wow.. not even a tip box.. I don’t own a resin printer but man does this make me want to buy one right now, I don’t even own the headset yet either

Impressive project. Seems like a bad idea to make it white and with holes though. Wouldn't external light be able to hit the lens and along with lights from the the screen make the inside of the headset visible? Also pressure on your cheeks usually means the top strap is set too slack. You can actually transfer almost all pressure to your forehead with the top strap.

Check out the Custom Slimterface for the Beyond, neat project

Love your format and videos would like to see details grasshopper lecture from you 🎉

yay new vid

I would also love to buy for the STL, when I send you a 3D scan of my face. 🙂

Make this a business dude!

I would use the word "fitted", or "custom fitted" personally.

This is really impressive! Any way I can get one for myself? Preferably the STL so I can get it printed somewhere

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This is fantastic. It would be nice if the method would work on FFF. What about light leak?

How about we go ahead and do something similar for the back of the head? Then, in theory, you can distribute the entire weight of the headset as much as possible

You should sell these masks

Bump for the algorithm! Also a lot of usefull comments here

I've printed my own face scanned Pico 4 head gasket. But the only real way to achieve anything worthwhile would be the subtractive process. A 6 axis CNC drill and some foam I think.

Here you can say “This is amazing Johnny”❤❤❤ How I can order this gasket from you ?? 50-100$ - ok !!!!

I would literally buy one for an index which is notorious for slipping and having a small sweet spot. Literally would pay $100 for one.

Would love to get the stl for my face, how about making a shop where you input the facescan and then youre getting the stl for printing?

Another absolute banger of a video! Have you though about selling these custom inserts on something like patreon maybe?

Please, make it accessible for others to use! (perhaps make it behind the paywall)

bro you could actually sell this software to someone like Oblik design who are making these already. Id buy one !

I think you should have a site up to let people send you scans for a price and you send them the CAD/3MF file. I would love to try printing this on my FDM printer.

any chance this would be available for use of some kind? i have a form 3 and quest 3 and such, and would really love to try this idea out, though i dont have access to rhino. is there any plans to maybe make this tool available on github as a software stack app or something like that?

This is amazing! Is there any way i can pay you for a stl for my face, so i can print it myself? :)

Excellent job! Could this enhance the field of view? It seems slimmer than the standard version. Also, is there a light leakage issue given that the material is somewhat translucent and due to the holes in the mask?

Can we buy the program or as the other commenter mentioned have a website that prints it and ships (or at the model if printing and shipping is too much/would be an additional cost)

please can we get an update to how you are finding the custom controller? i wanna see if ps aand xbox are gunna want to invest lol

How does the ventilation affect light bleeding in?

is there any lightbleed? interested in making something similar

I would like to make a lighter Quest 3 by tethering away the internal battery.

How is the light bleed? Seems like there would be a lot.

Please make this a real product I need it

I've heard lots of people recommending Oblik, personally this looks wayy better but isnt commercially available (at least not yet.) are there any other good custom facial interfaces> Should I was till more progress is made on this one?

Any chance for other face masks models like Pico 4 etc? Also Android based 3D scanning for non Iphone users? Another thing, how is the light leak through that mesh?

I wonder if this setup could be adapted to blender so that Rbino wouldn’t be needed

Do you have any plans to release the rhino grasshopper file so people can generate their own masks?

What about printing PLA on a FDM printer?

Bobovr no gasket required. Floats in front of you face. I will never go back to a gasket.

Sorry if you already answered this, but is this a service you will sell, or something you'll distribute to the community?