[HN Gopher] More AR Glasses USB Protocols: The Worse, the Better...
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More AR Glasses USB Protocols: The Worse, the Better and the
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Author : Lwrless
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-03-13 13:40 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| araes wrote:
| Hungary, why do you have so many AR glasses choices when Meta and
| Apple in North America seem unable to provide anything consumers
| desire?
|
| Those glasses all look positively cool and wearable by
| comparison. Even the canine looks kind of classy in the Grawoow
| (?) glasses. I'm not sure normal humans would even notice the
| Rokid or XReal glasses. From another article, the Rokid type
| apparently sit floating off your face kind of weird. [1] They
| also never show anything other than image mockups, which makes me
| suspicious of the actual experience.
|
| Do the images all just look horrible internally, or have
| projector washout? Cause otherwise these all look pretty
| reasonable for the morning commute and I'm not sure why there's
| so much of a focus on goggles.
|
| [1] https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-
| augmente...
| hcazz wrote:
| I'm based in the US. Most of those options are available from
| Amazon.
|
| I've owned both the Viture glasses and the nreal air (back when
| they were called nreal rather than xreal). The picture quality
| on them is more than enough to use as a second display, but
| where it shines for me is on flights. It _mostly_ just looks
| like a normal pair of oversized glasses, but presents an
| incredible display on that is miles beyond any in flight
| entertainment system.
|
| I only bought the Viture because I lost/forgot my original
| nreal air glasses on a flight and they were never found.
| RajT88 wrote:
| Same, I can buy these in the US either off Amazon or from the
| manufacturer's websites.
|
| For my money, I'm waiting for the tech to improve a bit more
| before I buy the XReal Air's. A little bit smaller, a little
| bit better tracking and support for using phone on Desktop
| mode, or a PC in multi-monitor mode. I'd like something which
| is both great on the go, and worth using at home, when I feel
| like my multi-monitor setup doesn't have quite enough screen
| real estate for some computing task.
| Eugr wrote:
| I have NReal/XReal Air, and I find them very uncomfortable. I
| wear glasses, so I have to use prescription inserts, so it
| adds to the weight. While they are not too heavy, they put
| too much weight on the bridge of my nose and tend to slide
| down over time. They are also very sensitive to placement, so
| if they slide down a little, you can't see the entire screen
| anymore. The FOV is pretty narrow.
| saurik wrote:
| The Viture One has a built-in diopter correction wheel
| which can correct up to 4 diopters (which might not be good
| enough for you; it is just barely good enough for me).
| kelvie wrote:
| As the owner of a pair of one of these glasses, I really like
| using them in bed at night as a monitor that isn't mega bright
| while my partner is asleep.
|
| Or whilst sitting on the couch as I don't like having to look
| down to play games (and saves my arm from getting numb from
| holding up a Steam Deck).
|
| I hope that due to reverse-engineering these protocols we'll
| finally get some cool (open source) features out of these! The
| one I have (xreal Air) is really comfortable to wear, but the
| 1080p resolution is more like 720p due to the fact that pixels
| aren't always crisp when reading text (I think it has to do with
| the prism), so e.g. a head tracking larger desktop would be
| amazing.
|
| I think there is already some work on that (e.g.
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Xreal/comments/16cj63g/steam_deck_h...
| ), but I'm waiting for it to be good enough to integrate with e.g
| Hyprland/wlroots so I will use it.
|
| It'd also be cool even to have something like PaperWM track
| left/right head movements.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Related question: what options are there for us wearing
| eyeglasses?
| karurosu wrote:
| xreal supports custom made prescription inserts. it comes with
| blanks you can take to an optometrist to get them made.
| taskforcegemini wrote:
| rokid does too
| saidinesh5 wrote:
| Rokid max supports focus adjustment from 0 to -6:
| https://global.rokid.com/pages/product-help#display-adjustme...
|
| I have an xreal air, for which i got lenses cut. (tbh, i took
| sandpaper and dremel and cut it myself, based on the templates
| they provided). I probably missed some thing because i have to
| keep adjusting the glasses so my lenses cover the display
| properly. Would love to try out Rokid for this very reason.
| taskforcegemini wrote:
| I wouldn't rely too much on the -6. very important is IPD as
| well. mine didn't match so the outer corners were very
| blurry. IPD can be changed via app, but that wasn't available
| to me so couldn't test it. it's not really changing the IPD
| but moving the active pixels instead
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