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> Is it better than your tiny phone or cheap tablet on your tray table? Yes. I hadn't thought of that. As a fairly tall person, working on a laptop or tablet o

> Is it better than your tiny phone or cheap tablet on your tray table? Yes. I hadn't thought of that. As a fairly tall person, working on a laptop or tablet on a plane has become a literal pain in the neck. I don't know if it's that the seats are closer, the tray tables are lower, or maybe I'm just getting old. This seems like a much more pleasant experience.

smoldesu 3y ago
Some nights I'll wear my headset in bed for this reason. I've got a TV in my room, but with my Quest I can lay back however I want and still get an IMAX display in front of me. Not sure if I'd be desperate enough to try it on a plane (the stereoscopy would probably make me sick), but as a viewing experience it's phenomenal. The OLED panel on the original Quest is a godsend for movie watching, and when streaming over DNLA I can get 3-4 hours of battery life.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  Yup I do the same. The key is an app that doesn't use the "movie theater" gimmick but just gives you a screen you can resize arbitrarily and move in space to vertically above your head. It truly is a glorious viewing experience, and if you make the screen large enough you effectively get full 1080p detail.
bick_nyers 3y ago
For me it's how close the seats are, you have to hold your hands in close to your body to type on a keyboard, and you don't have the room to tilt the screen back for a good viewing angle. Sometimes I've found resting the laptop in my lap/knees along the screen hinge (so it makes a 45 degree angle with my thigh) to be the most usable. This requires you to pull your shoulders/elbows back however so you usually can't do it if you have someone you don't know sitting next to you. I have strongly debated bringing my Quest 2 onto a plane and using a wireless keyboard to program with, I think the ergonomics would work out much better when flying coach.

smoldesu 3y ago

Some nights I'll wear my headset in bed for this reason. I've got a TV in my room, but with my Quest I can lay back however I want and still get an IMAX display in front of me. Not sure if I'd be desperate enough to try it on a plane (the stereoscopy would probably make me sick), but as a viewing experience it's phenomenal. The OLED panel on the original Quest is a godsend for movie watching, and when streaming over DNLA I can get 3-4 hours of battery life.

crazygringo 3y ago
Yup I do the same. The key is an app that doesn't use the "movie theater" gimmick but just gives you a screen you can resize arbitrarily and move in space to vertically above your head. It truly is a glorious viewing experience, and if you make the screen large enough you effectively get full 1080p detail.

bick_nyers 3y ago

For me it's how close the seats are, you have to hold your hands in close to your body to type on a keyboard, and you don't have the room to tilt the screen back for a good viewing angle. Sometimes I've found resting the laptop in my lap/knees along the screen hinge (so it makes a 45 degree angle with my thigh) to be the most usable. This requires you to pull your shoulders/elbows back however so you usually can't do it if you have someone you don't know sitting next to you. I have strongly debated bringing my Quest 2 onto a plane and using a wireless keyboard to program with, I think the ergonomics would work out much better when flying coach.