After going down the AR glasses rabbit hole for many years now, I have concluded that the most practical approach to AR glasses is to simply make them as nothing more than Bluetooth connected displays. That way you can connect them to virtually any Bluetooth enabled device and it will simply stream the screen to the glasses, which should allow them to be as lightweight as possible, allowing for the glasses to focus purely on offering an optimal and comfortable viewing experience. I would like them to be just as intuitive as plugging any tv monitor into a laptop and having it just automatically work. With my laptop, I can plug an HDMI into a billboard sized screen or a massive projector and have the biggest screen possible and I won't need any sort of software to make that work, it just does. That's the direction AR glasses need to head into, otherwise we will all have to suffer countless expensive generations of purely gimmick based products.
3:09 they say it’s a roughly 100 inch screen. At what distance? My smartwatch is the same as a 100 inch screen of that screen is far enough away. MOST of these Nreal type display glasses are claiming a 120inch screen. I’ve seen 150 and 180. And when you do the calculation a 27inch monitor 18 inches from your face is larger than what the glasses offer. If you don’t know the distance the measurement of screen size is meaningless. It’s like someone telling you they traveled 5 miles …. Did that take you a minute and a half? Did it take you a week? How significant is traveling 5 miles?
So, this is running a custom version of ChromeOS that allows you to create multiple virtual screens. It is interesting that the primary issue is a small FOV. I wonder, how clear was it? Perhaps it would be much better with just a larger FOV? Still, for the price, I'd expect far better processing power for what effectively can only do Chromebook things.
The concept is really cool. Great for privacy in the workplace. Who would know if my screen #4 was showing Spiderman :D But the price is steep for me in this first round. Shoutout to Norm from Tested in the background.
I love how when you mentioned the FOV limitations, they promptly told you to wrap it up haha But in all honesty, it's a cool concept that I hope improves
There is a market for mobile secondary displays. Hell, any iPad is a wireless additional display for any MacBook (modern hardware). $2000 so I can only run web app versions of software and get access to a $400 set of Xreal glasses feels like a weird idea. It seems like anyone who can use this as their computer could also use an iPad Pro as their computer (and Xreal glasses work with an iPad, just like a mouse and keyboard do). The glasses really are the thing that matters here.
@@AnonymOus-dp3jj I’m a software engineer. In Silicon Valley every single company hands you a MacBook Pro to work with on your first day. Google, Facebook, Netflix, amazon … EVERY company. Certain types of software development can almost only be done on Mac. Some types definitely can be done on windows. I know a lot of Indian devs prefer windows. An older friend of mine has always used windows and got a job at twitch. They sent him a Mac and he refused to use it. They let him use windows, but he has to be his own IT for everything and figure out how to get all of the software to run, or figure out alternatives for all the stuff that wouldn’t run on windows. I worked in the video game industry for a long time, they were all windows (except the audio and art departments). It’s also hugely popular with people who create music and produce music. Definitely what DJs use also. As far as I know most people who edit video prefer Mac. That’s people who edit movies, commercials, that’s also people who run RU-vid channels and the like. Most tech oriented professionals seem to prefer Mac. Uh, they’re not good for video games. That’s very true. I guess if you don’t really use a computer for much beyond gaming you may not see a place for them.
So it's basically a 1900usd Chromebook with ar glasses instead of a screen I think the idea has legs but I would have preferred that it used amd or intel cpus with a discreet gpu for the price
Why not just … make high quality display glasses? That’s really what this is. Why do I want an unproven laptop where I have to hope my other apps and subscriptions are supported? And then worry about a whole separate set of security issues. The glasses they use are from Xreal. As far as I know NO ONE uses them for productivity because of text legibility issues away from the center of the screen. The part about this people would be excited about would be the glasses. Keep your one off laptop. I don’t want more headaches. Lastly, this doesn’t seem to be AR. There’s no augmented reality here. Not any more than sitting in front of a regular screen is augmented reality.
specs from their website: 1080p per eye. that is laughably bad. the virtual screens are going to be unbelievably chunky, unusably low resolution. from the reviews I've read, even the best, most expensive VR headsets (with 2000+ vertical pixels per eye) don't have quite enough vertical resolution to make virtual screens usable as monitor replacements for serious work. but 1080p per eye? that's like a cruel joke.
I saw this on Instagram and started looking into it with a lot of excitement. Then I came to this video and just heard this man really say that this laptop is running off of Android basically which makes this an absolutely useless and garbage product that is nothing more than a gimmick with even less applications than the old nreal air AR glasses. Severely disappointed consumer here.
