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Going to try this. Gentoo desktop at home but have a few solid months of business travel coming up and need hardware I can rely on. Went to the Apple store recently and was shocked they try to sell Macbooks with screens with a chunk out of them... what? I asked the salesperson and they said it's been this way for 2-3 years. Shows how much of a rock I live under, but gee Steve Jobs is surely glitching in his grave! Lo…
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I didn’t have the vocabulary to see it this way, nor the 35 PPD standard. My experience with headwear is from circa 2016 VR headsets that were running a racing sim, with awful screen door effects. I realize there’s been a decade of progress. However, seeing random no-name AR glasses and being encouraged to buy them “sight-unseen” by a native content article seems like a recipe for being bamboozled.
> Can you see the small text of individual items of the Word ribbon? I tried with my Xreal Air on Windows and macOS, and yes, it's quite legible. Do bear in mind that although the screen is quite close to your eyes, the optics makes the apparent distance quite far. So if you're short-sighted, you will need prescription inserts. I also have some issues with some corners of the screen being slightly cut off, probably a…
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The first gen XReal glasses are similar in that you need software running on the host to get anything other than dumb monitor mode. With these newer models they've moved a bunch of the functionality into hardware on the glasses themselves, so you get virtual monitor and wider device support out of the box. There are a couple of projects that are trying to get better open source support of the Airs on linux; I've not…
Waiting for the XReal One Pro to vibe code using Aider and Samsung DeX in a Termux terminal while walking my countries national parks (just something I would like to try)
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I tried something like that 2 decades ago with a 640x480 monocular strapped to my sunglasses, with interpolation i could use a 1024x768 resolution in combination with a arm based pocketpc with host usb and compactflash video-out. I used it for reading and 'fast' offline wikipedia/tr3 database search with both frogpad and twiddler2 and some voice commands. The problem is that you can see the foreground and depth ok as…
I do remember a website a long time ago about a guy walking around with a setup like this. Seemed like it involved lead acid batteries and a lot of weight. Was really interesting then when desktops were as big as large pizzas.
https://alum.mit.edu/slice/hdr-pioneer-looks-future-wearable...
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Its a 90Wh battery powering a mobile SoC. It should last significantly more than 5 mins.
Where did you see 90? The site says 5.5.
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What software were you using, Virtual Desktop? I find it super clear in a Quest 3 and I often work for hours in it.
I'd say most of us are actually more curious about the software setup you're using. You seem to have a setup that works for you for productivity tasks, so please share!
Seems like the thing that actually makes this all work is the built in battery on the mini PC. Without it, accidentally unplugging the power bank would be a big problem.
It is as bad as yanking the cord on your computer. I mean, not the greatest thing to do, but not the end of the world with modern filesystems. I used a NUC with some battery pack for ages, accidentally unplugging wasn’t a big problem really. (Sadly smart glasses weren’t where they are now at the time, so I had to lug around some kind of display sometimes).