Comment by zmmmmm
3 years ago
I agree the simple monitor replacement use case is probably one of the best in terms of real world usefulness.
But it's also the one that is most open to competition because it has no ecosystem link. There are already half a dozen alternatives at $400-$1k type range that give you virtual monitors. eg: the XReal Air [0]. It's interesting that even while they are generating some interest, it doesn't seem to me that AR glasses as monitors on their own are taking off yet in a mainstream way.
So it's going to be a question of how much more it can add to that or do better than that. Is just branding it Apple enough? Maybe. But I feel like it needs at least something else than purely being a monitor to compete with the alternatives.
Resolution information is conspicuously absent from this page.
Yeah, I'm not sure even this one is going to really be high res enough to make a good monitor replacement, but the other hmds I've seen certainly aren't.
1080p per eye resolution[0], not really a proper display replacement.
Works pretty well for games and media though, these are semi-popular in the Steam Deck community.
These also have zero processing and require a device to connect to, there is no positional tracking either so the display floats wherever you move your head to.
[0] https://vr-compare.com/headset/nrealair
11.5Mpx per eye I think it said in the video.
Or almost 50% more than 4K, per eye.
That's still not capable of producing a central "work area" the angular size of a book at the reading distance with a reasonable angular resolution figure.
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