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  zmmmmm
  It's going to be interesting to see this compete with the Meta VR glasses. They are essentially identical for productivity except the Aura has physical light pass through while the VR glasses use external cameras to provide pass through. The Meta VR glasses will have better resolution I think, but then the Aura has access to the whole Android ecosystem - so that means real implementations of Microsoft Word etc.But the real choice is the unfortunate one of who is least likely to abandon the whole thing when it doesn't take off and leave you with an un/poorly supported device. Both companies have terrible track records on this.
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  SirMaster
  I like glasses like these, but just for a simple use case.I picked up a pair of factory refurb VITURE Pro XR for $130 and they are fantastic for watching movies from my phone on a trip, or playing games from like a steam deck.They really are native 1080p 120Hz micro OLED screens. Fantastic contrast and brightness.I don't care at all about the head tracking or passthrough or any of that stuff. To me they are just a simple fixed floating huge high quality screen that I can use on the go.I'm also able to watch 3D movies on them with of course zero crosstalk and that's pretty neat too!If anyone else is interested in trying these types of glasses here they are for $152 (with coupon SHOPNOW15) certified refurb from the original company with an excellent 30 day return policy.https://www.ebay.com/itm/389249036434
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  malwrar
  It’s kind of funny reading this blog announcement as a corporate product announcement, because I’ve been actually playing with nreal’s air 2 ultra glasses. They are absolutely perfect for open XR work, I love them. You get the cameras, buttons, accelerometer, all over the cable without fuss, and they show up in Linux as just a regular DRM device. Literally by default most window managers just see them as another display. It was such a nice experience getting a 3d engine hooked up to them and adding 6DoF tracking working with visua slam (two fisheye cameras gives you instant depth, a luxury compared to the usual monocular focus). Honestly these glasses are good enough that I use them with a pinephone as my primary computing device these days. And this was on the side executed by an agentic harness while I focusing on other things! I guess I’m also now competing with Google, and so could you too.
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  2001zhaozhao
  I actually don't see any reason why I would use this instead of my Xreal Air (released like 3 years ago) + Samsung Dex. The phone is a perfect "compute puck" for wired AR glasses and Google even makes them, so why the heck are they selling separate compute pucks with these glasses and making them unaffordable?? Just make some pixel glasses that run android xr on the pixel phone instead
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  georgewsinger
  If you're interested in running full Linux Desktop apps instead of Android apps, Simula is getting closer to releasing VR/AR compatible compute packs with laptop competitive specs: https://simulavr.com/blog/compute-pack-progress/
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  Aozora7
  I'm not interested in VR/AR stuff, but I'm still waiting for dumb lightweight wireless glasses that would be able to replace my four monitor setup on PC.
• AuthAuth
  This is cool. Its part of an ideal version of my home setup. But god the marketing feels so off, its like its made by people who have never used a monitor or done work on a computer. The marketing makes it out to be a phone screen for your face which is such a sad vision for genuinely cool technology. Also horrible demonstration of AI do these people even use AI?The part where he asked AI to organise his windows was almost as painful as the part where he was in a generic chase sequence of a Ubisoft slop game and asked whats the best way to catch the assassin.
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  delichon
  > Real-time AI perceptionContinuous AI dependence of a large fraction of society is coming fast. It needs a name. Cyborgism? Umbilicals?We'll also need to coin some names for the symbiotes to call the resistors. Neoamish? Analogues?The economic power difference between the two groups may justify calling them the Eloi and the Morlocks.
• rendaw
  One thing I learned recently is that some manufacturers list horizontal FOV, some list diagonal. And... yeah, they don't say which it is here.
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  andybak
  I've got a pair. AMA...
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  skeledrew
  This has me thinking of the Google Glass sitting on my shelf, dust well gathered. Never again.
• dawnerd
  I just wanna say I really love my xreal glasses. Best travel device for long flights.
• nicman23
  that is great and all but i have negative trust on gemini and any of its features
• malux85
  I really want XR glasses to work but having a 50 inch screen in front of me that moves with the micro-movements of my head is very annoying.Using an ide is difficult because in order to have enough text on the screen to be useful the font size has to be that micromovements of the head makes reading the text difficult - its fine for 15 minutes but try doing 2 hours of coding on it, and the extra cognitive load of tracking the moving screen and text is too much. Mine sit in the case now, gathering dust.Watching movies, probably fine. Playing games, probably fine. I don't do those things.
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  jaypatelani
  What's effect on eyesight due to XR?
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  vdfs
  I wonder when it will join the graveyard?
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  andsoitis
  They erecting a virtual world bubble to hide from us the devastation AI is going to wreck on the natural world around us.
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  classictraffic
  $1099 is so nuts
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  zb3
  Is black transparent there? Are they dimmed? Or just additive?
• anon
  undefined
• Marciplan
  wired, ok — but u still need to be behind a display? okay
• lgleason
  meh
• golemiprague
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