Comment by stavros

5 days ago

I'm actually wearing the Xreal Air 2 right now, and yes, this is basically exactly what their app does. Personally, I only need one screen, so I'm using the glasses without the app, but this is great if you want a virtual second display somewhere in the room! Very well done.

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mentos  5 days ago

I’m staying at a friends and using my laptop and a second monitor of his to work. I’ve wondered if the Xreal Air 2 would be better than a large monitor. My hunch is that having a dedicated smaller monitor not on my face is more comfortable and productive than a large virtual one.

From your experience would you agree?

  • stavros  5 days ago

    Hm, no, I much prefer the Xreal to the laptop's screen (except for the blurry edges). I don't care about the monitor size, only the resolution, but I'd rather have the monitor always be straight ahead in my vision (no matter how my head is tilted), and I really like the Xreal for that.

    As I said, though, I always only use a single monitor anyway, so YMMV.

    • 0xffff2  4 days ago

      I haven't previously heard of Xreal. Looking at their glasses, it seems like they're all 1080p. I find it very difficult to deal with text on a regular 1080p monitor after having uses 4k monitors for a while. Is there something about the way the glasses work that makes 1080p glasses equivalent/better than at least a 1440p monitor in terms of clarity?

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k__  5 days ago

The Xreal Air 2 Ultra look pretty interesting.

After using both 3DoF and 6DoF for years, I just can't imagine using a 3DoF headset for more than watching videos or simple writing tasks.

blensor  5 days ago

I'm actually a bit jealous about the XReals. Back when I bought the Viture I wanted to buy XReal first but they had such strange shipping policies ( they shipped to every county around me but not to Austria ) so I went for the Viture.

  • stavros  5 days ago

    The Xreals are the only ones I've tried, so I don't know how they compare, but I have trouble with fit. I have trouble in general, because of my nose bridge being too wide, but even when I put the glasses right against my forehead, I still can't get the entire screen in focus, the edges are blurry.

    I really wish the screen were smaller and more to the center, then they'd be perfect. I guess it depends on whether you want them for games (the important stuff is usually in the centrer) or for work (the important stuff is usually at the edges).

    I really like the focal distance, though, it's around 5m away and pretty comfortable for the eyes.

    • blensor  5 days ago

      With the viture I have the problem that the bottom of the screen is almost always not visible. I initially used the accessibility feature that let's me zoom into the desktop with mouse follow moving the viewport but that gets old quickly, which is one reason why I started that project.

      I'm also planning to add other "display" modes like a curved monitor and in theory we could connect multiple monitors using several hdmi capture devices but that's probably even less useful

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