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Fascinating. Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution, but the second incarnation of this product ought to be a real game-changer. Also, I noted this passage: even with a very odd prescription (one eye is near-sighted, and one far-sighted) the default corrective lenses Sightful had available worked well. I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can…
This is perfect for me... I love idea of being laid back with my feet up and having a HUGE screen to do stuff. I get it is not perfect screen, but I can see how this will get better. I might not be early adopter as 2K laptop one, but the very next one, totally count on me. The only issue... Zoom meetings... It is weird if you have headset on.
I use the nReal for this currently, it's great. The glasses are comfy, and I can have blockers on the front or see through to other things. You can be full wearable right now for less than you think.
I still think conventional large monitors will survive both these new "screen forms" for real work, because the accuracy and amount of information is unbeatable versus an AR/VR set and its not practical to be interacting with a large touch screen.
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Fascinating. Hard to know if it's worth it at this stage due to the 1080p per-eye resolution, but the second incarnation of this product ought to be a real game-changer. Also, I noted this passage: even with a very odd prescription (one eye is near-sighted, and one far-sighted) the default corrective lenses Sightful had available worked well. I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can…
There are dozens of us! My glasses and contact RXs always got a comment. Mine are on the extreme side in difference too, plus astigmatism in one eye and not the other. When contacts were finally available for me, I had to relearn how to live in a 3d space. I'm definitely going to follow the development of this as attention to edge cases and details like this are a good indicator of quality. It definitely has beta ver…
I don't know if the AR/VR space will ever get functional as a replacement for standard monitors but there is an interesting bifurcation: some screens are becoming more "real" (touch screens) and some are becoming almost completely dematerialized (projections in our visual field). I still think conventional large monitors will survive both these new "screen forms" for real work, because the accuracy and amount of info…
The only thing that's withholding me is that I prefer to _try_ devices in real life before ordering stuff like this. I've been disappointed far too many times when ordering stuff from the interwebs :)
Ok but will Linux run well on it?
Unfortunately you'd need a compact input device with good haptic feedback. Obviously it has a keyboard [1], but when the screen fits so nicely over it dropping the screen doesn't seem like such a huge bonus.
As it stands I'd probably prefer a screen for the 2% of my computing time where I actually want my world to be "public".
Still, very cool to see things moving this way!
[1]: Physical buttons are a million times better than a touch screen because you don't have to look at them to know what you are doing.