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I have a pair of Nreal Air glasses which I purchased for my steam deck. I used them a couple of times then they went into a drawer. The issue I had with them i
by tsuujin 4y ago
I have a pair of Nreal Air glasses which I purchased for my steam deck. I used them a couple of times then they went into a drawer.
The issue I had with them is that the screen moves with your head. I know this sounds super obvious, and I knew this would be the case when I purchased them; however, I did not understand how disorienting and frustrating it would be for gaming.
Most gaming HUDs are at the outside edge of the screen, and you look at them fairly frequently. If you’re like me, you do this by moving your head slightly with your eyes. I found it to be very distracting to move my head every time I wanted to check the edges of the screen because I would move my head and eyes and expect to be at my target… but not actually have arrived there.
Additionally, because I was required to look only with my eyes I felt like there was a lot of fatigue, and occasionally a bit of soreness, caused by constantly moving my vision past what all of my habits had trained.
I think that the idea of a glasses based screen is sound, but I will wait for a decent pair with AR built in before I buy again. If the screen were fixed into place using AR cameras it would be a really cool experience overall.