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> And yes it will drown headset in sweat and kill it in no time. Is this from personal experience or just conjecture? Because this is not common problem. Also

> And yes it will drown headset in sweat and kill it in no time. Is this from personal experience or just conjecture? Because this is not common problem. Also this is what towels are for. You can also have interchangeable padding to either be more absorbent of sweat or less depending your preferences.

kingosticks 6y ago
Are you saying that sweating prefusably on an indoor cycling trainer is not a common problem? I must be misunderstanding. I'd need to have a couple of these absorbant interchangable sweat pads for an hours workout if I wanted this thing to have any chance of staying in place. And cleaning it afterwards would be a must, even so it sounds absolutely grim after a few uses. Plus they are pretty uncomfortable (my experience). I suppose it might be tolerable if I was just lightly spinning through a magical VR world enjoying the views. But I'd rather be using regular Zwift and getting fit.
- chaostheory 6y ago
  >Are you saying that sweating prefusably on an indoor cycling trainer is not a common problem? I must be misunderstanding. No, I'm saying that lots of sweat will not break a VR system. Personally, I just use a towel on my neck and it's more than good enough VR workouts, but everyone is different
madeofpalk 6y ago
You sweat a lot during exercise. It's literally dripping off my face throughout the exercise. There's no "grabbing a towel to wipe if off" while I'm wearing the headset. The headset will absorb the sweat.
- chaostheory 6y ago
  There's an easy solution for this: 1. Momentarily take off your VR headset. 2. Wipe your sweat using the towel on your neck 3. Put your VR HMD back on and continue working out 4. Repeat when sweat becomes an issue again in 30 minutes > The headset will absorb the sweat. Not if you add a silicone liner on top of the padding of your VR headset. It seems like most of the pundits critical of using VR for working out haven't even tried it themselves
  - FpUser 6y ago
    >"4. Repeat when sweat becomes an issue again in 30 minutes" I my case the issue resurfaces in a minute or so. >"Not if you add a silicone liner on top of the padding of your VR headset" Actually in my case liner or not any area of my body that is covered sweats. Anyways your advises sound like I have to bend backwards to make use of that VR. I'll wait till VR does that instead. If not fine with me. I have other things to do. >"It seems like most of the pundits critical of using VR for working out haven't even tried it themselves" You are making unfounded assumptions here.
    - chaostheory 6y ago
      > I my case the issue resurfaces in a minute or so. You need a VR headset or strap that's easy to take off and put on. They typically operate with a dial on the back. You also probably need to rely on multiple pads that can absorb sweat. Not sure if there are any other solutions to mitigate extremely heavy facial sweating. I'm a pretty heavy sweater myself, where it feels like the entire top half of my body is drenched in sweat including my face. The only time facial sweat annoys me is when it clouds the VR screens. Otherwise, my ritual works fine since I'm still able to constantly wipe the portion of my face that isnt' covered the VR headset and any other sweat gets caught by the towel on my neck How would you even know what would happen working out with VR when it seems that you haven't even tried it yet? > You are making unfounded assumptions here. It's a pretty healthy assumption when you have commenters here making ridiculous claims like sweat routinely destroying VR headsets. I'm ok with valid criticisms of VR and there are many; I can write a fairly large blog post focusing on just downsides of VR. However, I'm not going to tolerate bad assumptions that aren't based on any real personal experience, or just reality in general
      - FpUser 6y ago
        >"How would you even know what would happen working out with VR when it seems that you haven't even tried it yet?" I tried it. Sorry but I can not tolerate that thing on me while under real physical load. Anyway to each their own. If it works for you - enjoy.
FpUser 6y ago
Yes it is a personal experience. I might change my opinion when / if VR headsets will look like a regular glasses so my fan can move the air properly. As for towels - do you ride while periodically removing your headset and wiping your face? I can't imagine myself doing it. I have giant industrial fan that takes care of a perspiration and which is totally useless if most of my face is covered with that blob of VR set.
- chaostheory 6y ago
  Yes, I ride with a towel on my neck and I periodically wipe my face every 30 minutes. Most of my sweat drains into my towel because I use silicone covers over the VR headset padding. I consider myself a heavy sweater since my shirts are drenched even working without VR

kingosticks 6y ago

Are you saying that sweating prefusably on an indoor cycling trainer is not a common problem? I must be misunderstanding. I'd need to have a couple of these absorbant interchangable sweat pads for an hours workout if I wanted this thing to have any chance of staying in place. And cleaning it afterwards would be a must, even so it sounds absolutely grim after a few uses. Plus they are pretty uncomfortable (my experience). I suppose it might be tolerable if I was just lightly spinning through a magical VR world enjoying the views. But I'd rather be using regular Zwift and getting fit.

chaostheory 6y ago
>Are you saying that sweating prefusably on an indoor cycling trainer is not a common problem? I must be misunderstanding. No, I'm saying that lots of sweat will not break a VR system. Personally, I just use a towel on my neck and it's more than good enough VR workouts, but everyone is different

madeofpalk 6y ago

You sweat a lot during exercise. It's literally dripping off my face throughout the exercise. There's no "grabbing a towel to wipe if off" while I'm wearing the headset. The headset will absorb the sweat.

chaostheory 6y ago
There's an easy solution for this: 1. Momentarily take off your VR headset. 2. Wipe your sweat using the towel on your neck 3. Put your VR HMD back on and continue working out 4. Repeat when sweat becomes an issue again in 30 minutes > The headset will absorb the sweat. Not if you add a silicone liner on top of the padding of your VR headset. It seems like most of the pundits critical of using VR for working out haven't even tried it themselves
- FpUser 6y ago
  >"4. Repeat when sweat becomes an issue again in 30 minutes" I my case the issue resurfaces in a minute or so. >"Not if you add a silicone liner on top of the padding of your VR headset" Actually in my case liner or not any area of my body that is covered sweats. Anyways your advises sound like I have to bend backwards to make use of that VR. I'll wait till VR does that instead. If not fine with me. I have other things to do. >"It seems like most of the pundits critical of using VR for working out haven't even tried it themselves" You are making unfounded assumptions here.
  - chaostheory 6y ago
    > I my case the issue resurfaces in a minute or so. You need a VR headset or strap that's easy to take off and put on. They typically operate with a dial on the back. You also probably need to rely on multiple pads that can absorb sweat. Not sure if there are any other solutions to mitigate extremely heavy facial sweating. I'm a pretty heavy sweater myself, where it feels like the entire top half of my body is drenched in sweat including my face. The only time facial sweat annoys me is when it clouds the VR screens. Otherwise, my ritual works fine since I'm still able to constantly wipe the portion of my face that isnt' covered the VR headset and any other sweat gets caught by the towel on my neck How would you even know what would happen working out with VR when it seems that you haven't even tried it yet? > You are making unfounded assumptions here. It's a pretty healthy assumption when you have commenters here making ridiculous claims like sweat routinely destroying VR headsets. I'm ok with valid criticisms of VR and there are many; I can write a fairly large blog post focusing on just downsides of VR. However, I'm not going to tolerate bad assumptions that aren't based on any real personal experience, or just reality in general
    - FpUser 6y ago
      >"How would you even know what would happen working out with VR when it seems that you haven't even tried it yet?" I tried it. Sorry but I can not tolerate that thing on me while under real physical load. Anyway to each their own. If it works for you - enjoy.

FpUser 6y ago

Yes it is a personal experience. I might change my opinion when / if VR headsets will look like a regular glasses so my fan can move the air properly. As for towels - do you ride while periodically removing your headset and wiping your face? I can't imagine myself doing it. I have giant industrial fan that takes care of a perspiration and which is totally useless if most of my face is covered with that blob of VR set.

chaostheory 6y ago
Yes, I ride with a towel on my neck and I periodically wipe my face every 30 minutes. Most of my sweat drains into my towel because I use silicone covers over the VR headset padding. I consider myself a heavy sweater since my shirts are drenched even working without VR