Comment by stavros 6 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.
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.
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?
I have them and they actually look worse than a real 1080P screen because the edges are out of focus. I know some people do, but I could never use them for real work. They’re ok for videos and video games but not amazing. If they were 4K they’d be significantly more usable but for me the number 1 issue is the edge blur and general clarity issues which I guess are lens related.
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.
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
I haven't found a way to do it on the phone unfortunately which is really annoying.
You could in theory use the approach I posted here and use a USB to HDMI adapter to connect the phone to device and it would do the same thing it does with a regular PC but that loses all the benefits of being small and portable if you have to carry around all that additional stuff
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?