Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work • Hacker News Board

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by bitwize » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:31 AM UTC

webappguy wrote: post #5

Zero spec info. Eyeroll. But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.

It's a Snapdragon (not even one of the new whizzy ones) laptop running some sort of Android build? Very light duty as an office laptop. If it runs tmux I could probably get Emacs going on it and do some dev, but I sure as shit am not building large Rust codebases on it.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by Spartan-S63 » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:31 AM UTC

I would rather someone focuses on AR glasses that work really well and can work with my computer of choice.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:32 AM UTC

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Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by okasaki » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

Given how useful having a screen is and how little space it takes up, it seems much better to just buy a normal laptop and AR glasses separately.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by dsr_ » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:34 AM UTC

matlin wrote: post #8

webappguy wrote: post #5

Zero spec info. Eyeroll. But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.

Specs: https://www.sightful.com/spacetop-g1

This is an Android phone in a laptop case and 2 1080P displays in the glasses.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by waldrews » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:35 AM UTC

Anyone who has spent enough time in AR to compare, how's the headache/eye fatigue compared with VR?

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by Liftyee » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:38 AM UTC

The AR glasses themselves aren't their own design, according to this article in their press section. https://www.wired.com/story/sightful-spacetop-g1-augmented-r...

They are made by a company called real https://www.xreal.com/ . Not familiar with them but the tech seems to be impressive.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by CGamesPlay » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:39 AM UTC

Their OS page seems to imply that it's effectively a Chromebook, which is a bit disappointing. I'd like to see something that has more ability to function on its own, even though I guess this machine is mostly designed to be used in coffee shops.

I can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to do almost nothing useful on an airplane, between the web-apps-only paradigm and the issues with motion tracking on vehicles.

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by jayd16 » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:39 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #10

Unlike the downers comments, I find this very exciting. Finally a leap (ugh!) forward that isn't more ppi on a screen. Even if this product ends up being a sub-par in terms of expectations vs. reality, it's not unaffordable; and it may set a trend forward towards AR computing. It does look, uh, a little weird on people's face. But at least it's not the size of a cat on your face. As for the software, all we can hope…

Why is it a step forward over those XReal glasses, for example?

Re: Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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Post by anonzzzies » Wed, Jun 05, 2024, 1:40 AM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #16

Anyone who has spent enough time in AR to compare, how's the headache/eye fatigue compared with VR?

I have used the xreal for about 1.5 years now for work (with Android Dex) and it all works quite well. No headaches or eye fatigue which I do get with the quest 2.