I don't see it mentioned, but I'd feel completely ridiculous using this in a coffee shop or on the train.
I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
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Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#92The Xreal is a nice device. I got the first gen for $199. I'm able to plug this into the MacBook pro and watch Netflix in bed. The fonts do look a bit blurry and small. I don't think I can work with it full time. I don't have myopia (or my number is small to notice).
Thanks for posting this! I'd be very interested in more real-life usage comments from people, I don't trust YouTube "reviewers" (who get stuff for free and want cosy relationships with companies). I wonder specifically if their high-end devices (Xreal One Pro?) would be OK for some amount of coding work, or is it just a movie-watching screen. Even if it is only for watching movies, it might still be interesting for f…
I've used my Air for coding work. I found that I couldn't stick with it in Dumb Screen mode. I have astigmatism and the lenses to correct it; and my impression is that the lenses slightly contract the usable FoV which means you need the head tracking to be able to look around the screen more. That means you need the virtual desktop code running on the host (or the dongle, which I don't have) and the OSes you can use are them restricted.
With that, though, it's fine. The main reason I don't spend as much time in them these days is that I'm spending a lot more of my time in video calls than coding and we've not socially normalised big black sunglasses on video calls yet.
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#93How can the xreal one glasses be 3Dof and stay in place while this guy is moving forward and backwards in his chair? https://us.shop.xreal.com/cdn/shop/videos/c/vp/bc70020e90a74... https://us.shop.xreal.com/cdn/shop/videos/c/vp/a2b82ae2ea714... I appreciate its a marketing video, but this is just a lie, no? What is the actual supported input resolution of the display? How do virtual monitors work - are they just a co…
You can check discord for a lot of people trying these out in various ways.
The screen gets anchored to a direction and distance from you, so yes, leaning in would push the screen back (which feels natural, especially when you walk around).
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#94These glasses give me an instant headache and 1080p is abysmal if you are used to 5K displays. I love the idea, hate the actual glasses.
Have you tried Xreal One? I heard nothing but good things about them. Although only YouTubers reviewing these are not from the United States, that makes me think Xreal has a different market in the EU.
I think it's as simple as only shipping to very early customers and reviewers. I've ordered the Pro but I don't expect to get the hardware for another month or so yet.
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#95I don't see it mentioned, but I'd feel completely ridiculous using this in a coffee shop or on the train.
That was also my first thought when reading the title. But then looking at it, these just look like any regular sunglasses. Maybe slightly more bulky, but there are plenty of people wearing 'designer' sunglasses bigger than that. This is already a huge step up from full head units like Quest/VisionPro/etc.
Just remember that only a couple of years ago that Apple introduced the wireless earbuds and people also thought they looked ridiculous, now they're everywhere and nobody even notices anymore.
I feel like I'm defending this article a lot here in this topic, but for one, I am genuinely excited about this concept. Tech is not really there yet, but I can totally see me ditching my laptop for such a setup.
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#96I love the creativity, but for me? If I forget one cable, the whole mission falls apart and I'm back to scribbling in a notebook like it's 1995.
Author's setup doesn't really have that problem as far as I can see. AFAIK the cable from the xreal glasses don't even detach, keyboard and mouse are wireless. I guess you could forget the USB-C cable for power of the minipc, but you can get a USB-C cable literally anywhere. Or borrow one from someone whose laptop is already charged. The 'problem' you describe is not much different from forgetting to bring the charge…
The cable on the XReal Air does detach, but there's a compartment in the case where it lives. It's unlikely you'll forget it.
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#97These glasses give me an instant headache and 1080p is abysmal if you are used to 5K displays. I love the idea, hate the actual glasses.
Yeah. Also most of the people who review these things seem to have eyes that don’t work.
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#98Sounds like sponsored content. Every other review I have read people say they go back to laptop because the text fidelity, eye strain and keyboard on lap is just the best productivity setup
Re: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
#99What do you do if you already wear prescription lenses?
They have a mounting for a lens clip where you can put custom prescription lenses. When I bought my Airs they came with a lens frame and opticians' blanks - basically reference lenses that show where the eyeline is - which you can take to an optician for them to use.
I got my first set done at a high street optician - Specsavers in the UK - and they were able to do it based on some lens blanks they already had that were close enough in size to what XReal sent. Took less than a week to let me know they were done.
But also there's a partner that XReal advertise on their site to do the job. When I got a new prescription recently I gave them a try, and they results are just as good. A little better, actually, but I can't tell what's them and what's having a newer prescription.
I should point out that my lenses mainly correct astigmatism, so any models which only have myopia correction wouldn't be any good to me at all. It's got to be custom lenses for me, and it's fine.
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#100I don't understand. Is this an ad? How long this setup lasts on a single charge? For half the price, one can get a macbook air with fantastic battery life and a good keyboard.
I was looking at wearable computer stuff years ago but gave up. The display was always the limiting factor. It would sometimes be nice to to walk around taking notes without holding a phone.
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