A slight departure from my normal blog, I’m going to take a minute to post about a little issue I ran into with my HTC Vive and how I was able to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I got my Vive, I sprung for the 99 dollar deluxe headset for the headphones. Over time, with me putting it on and taking it off a couple dozen times an hour whenever I’m developing something and need to confirm the picture, one of the arms holding the earpiece got a little loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didn’t really notice it though until a couple days ago, where I got the very distinct impression that it was about to fall off, which it promptly did the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I’m thinking “Great, another replacement part I’ve got to order…” because I had just dropped 160 on a replacement infrared sensor box (safety tip, don’t accidentally drop these when you’re about to screw them into the ceiling while plugged into the power).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided this morning as I was getting ready to order a replacement to do just a little bit of research into whether this was something I could fix myself. In my mind I thought there was some ball at the end of the pin that was keeping the whole thing in place, turns out I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arm is actually held to the main assembly by a ridiculously tiny screw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foam that wraps around the inside of the headset actually will peel back and reveal this screw. I just had to line everything up and hold it in place, and work with a Phillip’s head screwdriver until I could get everything to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I then tightened it on the other side as I figured if one was about to come off, so was the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have got to take the little victories where I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll be making a couple other posts today, but I wanted to post the link here in case somehow anybody else needs help getting their headset fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n