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Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no 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…

My wife is near-sighted in one eye, and far-sighted in the other.

When I had cataract surgery I specifically requested and gat this - one eye for distances and the other at about 18" for computer use. I very much like it. Adaptation felt immediate.. while I was waiting for glasses to arrive I felt like I didn't need them. Now I use glasses for distance and computer work but I sort of feel like I'm just being a little lazy. ;)

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't have to be innovative. It has to work well.

Huh? It does work well. It's just an ordinary raspberry pi. No modifications. I upgraded to using my pi 4 though. I just toss it in a workout armband along with a battery pack whenever I feel like it. Input device can be whatever you want. I usually use a bluetooth media remote since that's a keyboard with a trackpad that easily fits in my pocket. Real world battery life of almost 8 hours on a 10000mAh pack including…

> Huh? It does work well.

Where did I say it doesn't? You seemed to be complaining about the fact that it was not innovative. I just said that innovation often doesn't matter. A good product works well, doesn't have to be innovative. Innovation is mostly great for marketing and VCs.

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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I have been doing this for months now with the nreal air, my phone and a portable keyboard with trackpad (I use keyboard shortcuts for anything anyway). It works really well and I haven't taken my laptop anywhere for 2 months or so. It is not perfect, but it's much better than lugging my laptop everywhere (no matter what it weighs; it's the dimensions). And the battery life is outstanding (it's that of my phone and c…

There are dozens of us! I use the phone as trackpad when I need to. Small BT keyboard, but thinking of learning the Charachorder. Nreal Air + S22 Ultra DeX + AVNC + proot Ubuntu (via Andronix) + VSCode with the Remote Development extension has been my daily driver for almost 6 months now I think. I even play games on this via GeForce Now and a Switch Pro controller, even voice chat on Discord at the same time and it…

The charachorder seems interesting but USB , not BLE, so not sure how that would work with this setup?
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