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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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Re: Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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I wear prescription glasses. Does Xreal Air help folks like me or forces me to use Contacts? update: nvmd. I found this - https://vroptician.com/prescription-lens-inserts/nreal-air

I got the prescription inserts for the xreal air 2 pro. They were a little more expensive than I would’ve liked ($150 plus $40 because I need -8 SPH) but I have somewhat severe myopia.

I got mine for $60 shipping incl from HONS VR. And they work well.

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Interesting, always wanted to try AR for office work because I travel a lot but the glasses part has always been a killer. Do they work with Linux at all?

I think they're just a usb-c monitor, so no reason it wouldn't.

Just note that you will also need the Xreal Beam if you want the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head (it's too uncomfortable to use without it IMO).

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Does such a thing exist that works for coding? Don't need the AR. My posture/back could use this for when I'm not working at my desk.

I've been looking for this as well but have never heard anyone that found glasses good enough for coding.

I use the Xreal for coding while traveling. It's not as nice as a monitor, but it's definitely good enough for coding IMO.

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Transcontinental means within a continent. Last time I checked Europe and South America are not the same continent.

That would be intercontinental. Trans is across, inter is within.

Intra is within, as in intranet. Inter is accross or between, as in internet.

So transcontinental is accross the same continent. Intercontinental is between separate continents.

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And yet the Cybertruck was the 3rd highest selling Electric vehicle in the US this year.

This says more about the average car buyer in the US than anything else to be honest.

That's not relevant, since the point of discussion is if enough people will buy the thing.

If it makes you look like a dork and yet it's the third most selling EV, you might blame the judgment of the average car buyer of the US (for whom you seem to have contempt), but you can't dispute that the product sold.

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Just reading this blog makes me feel like it is actually not a great device to travel with. For me, a good travel device is one that takes up minimal room when packing to the point where it becomes easy to forget I even have it in my bag. The Vision Pro typically requires its own dedicated spot on top of your carry on as you go through the airport - kind of the opposite. The author talks about just packing it with a…

OP uses the Apple case which pretty much every VP owner I've heard of agrees is comically oversized. You can make do with a much, much smaller case that would fit in a backpack.

That said, the last time I had the opportunity to use my VP on a plane I just used my kindle and laptop instead.

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I work lying down using my Meta Quest 3 sometimes when my back gets sore. I love it.

I don't know your situation so grain of salt, but the best thing I ever did for my back pain was to start deadlifting.

As someone recovering from back pain from a car accident, back pain (or tightness) often just means there's a weakness somewhere, probably at or anywhere below that location (could be tight hips, even ankles).

It's finding that weakness that can sometimes be the hard part, but deadlifts use the whole damn back so they're great to cover that area.

That being said, the body loves to try and compensate, so I didn't find proper relief with home workouts (and often just aggravated things), I needed all the gym machines to properly isolate muscles so my body wouldn't try and cheat. Trying random machines is also a great way to identify weaknesses.

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Benzos are my flight go-to. I got them for some flight anxiety, since my stupid brain started getting scared of flying, but boy do they just make the time go by and I manage to doze. It's not good quality, but it beats the total lack of sleep I'd customarily get. Outside of flying, I have no temptation or desire to take them thankfully, so a prescription with ten pills lasts me literally years.

One word of caution there (aside from other dangers of benzos): I had a friend use them on a flight from the US to UK, and apparently was still obviously intoxicated from them when arriving, and got rejected at the border, put in a holding area, and sent back on the next flight. If going through a place where you'll actually have to talk with an immigration officer, not necessarily the smartest thing.

Wow what a nightmare. I try to time it so I'm lucid before landing, but that's a horror I hadn't even considered!

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Does the device ignore head tilt, keeping the screen in-place as your head moves?

It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency". https://www.xreal.com/air2/

Thank you @hobos_delight! (Delightful information for me, 72Hz works for my system just fine thankfully.)

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Even in the US, most people (50+% of the population) certainly doesn't regularly (say, more than once a decade) travel by plane.

49% in the last year according to this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/air-travelers-in-america-an... Statista survey pre-pandemic says majority fly every year https://www.statista.com/statistics/316365/air-travel-freque... Americans fly quite often.

One of many reasons why per capita CO₂ emissions in US are 14.9t while in Germany, country that is always mentioned because they closed nuclear plants it is 'only' 8t (which is still higher than EU average).
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