BoboVR Swiveling Headphones Mount

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Swiveling Headphone Mount for Quest-3 or Quest-2, BoboVR M2 or M3 Halo Style Head-Strap (Or pretty much any "Helmet Style" Headset)This mod to "atst133's" excellent design allows headphones to swivel Left/Right/Up/Down while holding the headphones firmly against your ears.This also allows you to "Park" your headphones by swiveling them upward to rest them against the sides of the BoboVR's Head-Strap, making the Headset EASY to put on and take off. When you get the headset on, just lift the headphones outward while you swivel them downward onto/over your ears.I prefer "Over The Ear Headphones", but this mount should work with a wide variety of headphones styles (IE: "On Ear"), as well as work with most "VQ2 Helmet-Style" VR Head-straps. My wife and our friends have been using the design for some weeks now, and we love it. As of this writing we're using them on BoboVR M2 Head-Straps. "atst133" originally designed it for the Meta Head-Strap, but as he postulated in his original design, it works just as well on the BoboVR M2 Head-strap. This appears to work on the BoboVR M3 Head-Straps also, but I'm basing that assumption on their technical specifications found online (The Quest-3's only started being delivered today, and BoboVR doesn't yet have the M3 Strap, or their promised "M2-To-M3" conversion kits, "actually" out for sale yet... but it "should fit" just fine)I Remixed the files to use the wired version of the inexpensive "OneOdio" "Over-The-Ear" Headphones (About $30 at Amazon), but I've also included a Top Part that should fit the Sony MDR-ZX110 Headphones that atst133 originally designed it for (They're labeled in the File-Names).NEEDED STUFF:Soldering Skills and basic tools.A few inches of old Bicycle Inner-Tube (Acts as a spring to pull the Headphones tight).That's pretty much it.You'll need a little skill with soldering to remove the "over the head connector wire" in the OneOdio headphones (the wire that connects the left and right headphone speakers together), and to re-solder the extra red "Curly Cord" that comes with the headphones (It's supposed to be used as a patch cord to "share" the headphones with another person.. Cut it, use it.).It's a pretty straightforward process.I used a soldering Iron to pop a hole through the body of both headphones so the new red "Headphone-To-Headphone Connection Cord" comes out in a convenient location, and then used small Zip-Ties to secure the cord inside of both headphones so it doesn't pull loose or twist up inside the headphones. If you're using these with a Quest-3 VR unit, you might want to take this opportunity to shorten the main microphone cable-cord for the Headphones, since Meta FINALLY put the headphone jack on the right side of the headset (Most headphone connection cords are located on the right-side headphone). You can print my "BoboVR Cable-Rail" to hold the cord(s) securely (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6253499).When disassembling the headphones, just grin and run a razor through the "Pleather" "Over-The-Head-Strap" of the OneOdio Headphones to help with disassembly and removing the over-head Headphone-strap and connection cord. You'll be tempted to pop loose each red stitch... the stitches are actually just decoration, so save yourself some time, cut the Pleather, toss it in the garbage. And "No", the original connection cord isn't long enough to connect the headphones together across a BoboVR headset, so just cut it during disassembly and remove the rest of it as you get to the soldering part of the project. Seriously, disassembling, soldering, and reassembly of the headphones takes less than 45 minutes.I HIGHLY suggest that you read the instructions for putting the Headphone-Holders onto your VR Headset at atst133's thing-page (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5793324), and toss him a Like for the original project files. The base just pops straight onto the BoboVR's swivel mounts, the mid-part pops onto the base part, then the top part that actually holds the headphones pops onto the Mid-part. The parts are pretty tight-fitting, but just take your time and the parts will fit fine.atst133 suggests printing using a 0.2 mm layer height, 3-4 perimeters, which I also recommend, but I've printed several using two walls and they work OK... 3-4 makes them much more sturdy though!You'll need an old bicycle inner-tube to make "Tension Bands" to pull the headphones against your ears. I use 4 bands on each side of the headset (two bands on each pair of studs), but my wife prefers 3 bands on each pair of studs to pull her headphones in "head-crushing tight" ;)