I went on a little bit of a “face panties” buying spree recently. I wanted to try different ones out, figure out what fit best, and worst case scenario I’d have a small stack of clean ones available if some friends came over and wanted to do a Beat Saber competition or something (joke’s on me though, I don’t have any friends).
Anyway, these are exactly the same as what you get in the SAYAFAN VR Eye Mask Pack. They’re clearly made by the same factory and just have a different name on the product description. The blue and the black patterned ones are the exact same color as the SAYAFAN variants, I think the pink one is a slight different shade, and this set includes an all-black one (so 4 masks for $20 at the time of this review, while the SAFAYAN pack is 3 masks for $17). Other than that, they’re perfectly identical.
Anyway, it took some getting used to wearing the headset with a mask. For my face, the problem area seems to be around the nose, as the stretchy fabric bridge that goes over your nose wants to pull up the fabric around it, and it starts to feel like it’s encroaching on the lower part of your eyes. It’s off-putting to be sure. I’ve found that the key is to get the vision window as centered as possible, then put the headset on and get it tightened up against your face, and then grab the lower bits of mask fabric sticking out below the headset underneath you eyes, and tugging down on them until it feels more comfortable. With the headset in place against your face, it should hold the mask adjustments you make without it continuing to move around on you. I find myself re-adjusting the area below my eyes about every 15-20 minutes or so, but it’s quick and painless.
The difference these masks make is significant. I was sweating like crazy in this headset (Beat Saber, Synth Riders, Les Mills, etc. It’s like 95% of my daily exercise) and cleaning it was a real pain because all of those silicone accordion folds around the face would just trap sweat in there. It still needs a quick swipe every so often, but almost all of the sweat gets absorbed by the mask so it’s a lot simpler and faster to clean the headset, and then every few days the mask gets tossed in the washer
I had tried a third set (hey, I did call it a “spree” after all), because they had what looked to be a more form-fitting area over the bridge of the nose and I thought that might help with the issue I mentioned above, but ultimately I didn’t care for those because the eye window was smaller and there was no buckle in the back for head size adjustment, just a stretchy band, and since heads are not all the same size, it ended up not being as comfortable.
So of the three orders I placed, I’d say these were the best: functionally tied for the SAYAFAN set, but this set wins out because the per-mask price is lower.