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How to avoid the cable to twist and get shorter?


Chichi

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Hi,

 

One of my main issues after one hour in the Vive is that my cable is all twisted due to my movements and gets shorter. Do you guys have a solution for this?

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This is the primary reason we created the Vive Wireless Adapter, the only real way to get over the limitation of the tether is to eliminate it. 

 

There are a couple of things you can try:

  • The Turnsignal Overlay
  • Using some sort of overhead cable management system (clunky but very effective in some implementations)
  • Using something like a split-loom cable sleeve to make the cable a bit stiffer
  • Ensuring that you're wrapping the tether up using the
     so it doesn't form "memory" and coil on you automatically.
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Thanks for the TurnSignal overlay link. I did not know about it. I'll definitely try it.

I wanted to use an overhead cable solution at some point but the cable is a bit short for that.

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Thanks. Somebody had mentioned that in a video production class once. I had no idea what they were talking about.

 

Over-under. I'm going to start trying that. I had been hanging my cables to avoid twisting problems, but as you probably know, that doesn't help if you have to keep bringing them places, thus wrapping them around something/themselves over and over again. My laptop power cord has a wavy twist thing going on.

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