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I believe the HN zeitgeist practical recommendation in any near ballpark is currently the Xreal Air AR starting at $197 on sale https://amzn.com/dp/B0C3MKPLHP h

I believe the HN zeitgeist practical recommendation in any near ballpark is currently the Xreal Air AR starting at $197 on sale https://amzn.com/dp/B0C3MKPLHP https://amzn.com/dp/B0C3MKPLHP or $399 "Pro" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHVQWW4P https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHVQWW4P. 2024-10-16 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859012#41884544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859012#41884544 Traveling with Apple Vision Pro > For air travel, I really like my Xreal Air glasses now that I have a newer iPhone 16pro. Just plug in the USB-C cable, and you have a virtual 60" screen in front of you which works perfectly for Netflix, etc. And they cost less than 10% of the cost of an AVP, and are not limited to 2-3 hours of battery life (they get power from the phone). > I use the Xreal for coding while traveling. It's not as nice as a monitor, but it's definitely good enough for coding IMO. > Been travelling with a SD and Xreal Airs for the past 2 years. Fantastic for gaming and video consumption. Counterpoints: > I can’t get them setup to program on well tho > Honestly xreal's marketing is generous at best.

eximius 2y ago
What is the difference between the normal and pro? I can't find any meaningful difference on the product pages. Anyone gotten them working with Linux or some kind on android VM/container?
- tofof 2y ago
  Took some real digging to find. It's just the 'dimming' feature, nothing else is different. > the Xreal Air 2 Pro model to test – and as I mentioned it’s functionally identical to the regular Xreal Air 2 glasses except has lenses with Electrochromic Dimming. https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/xreal-air-2-pro-review https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmente...
arp242 2y ago
According to [1], Linux support is not great: "Unwilling to collaborate. Unofficial, open-source SDK. Exhibits drift, noise.". The VITURE and RayNeo ones that have "Official collaboration" seem to be roughly similar price. I haven't researched in-depth yet though. I looked up some YouTube reviews a few weeks ago, but I found it hard to really compare from that. And of course none of the reviewers are using Linux, because they're not cool like that. I wonder if anyone here has any experiences with it on Linux? [1]: https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver
- anonzzzies 2y ago
  Their software support (xreal) is very terrible, but most users don't use that anyway; they use it as a normal-ish looking, cheap, fast, long battery big screen. I use it with my s22 ultra in dex mode: it's light, I code/develop with codespaces, termius and vnc. I have very long battery life and it all fits in a little man bag including my foldable keyboard/trackpad. It's the future I use every day. I am looking to the Viture and others, but so far they are more expensive and not better according to the reviews I have seen. I only care about code and the incidental movie (it's great to put noise cancelling headphone, the protection cap (blocking all light) and just sit in the cinema alone.

eximius 2y ago

What is the difference between the normal and pro? I can't find any meaningful difference on the product pages. Anyone gotten them working with Linux or some kind on android VM/container?

tofof 2y ago
Took some real digging to find. It's just the 'dimming' feature, nothing else is different. > the Xreal Air 2 Pro model to test – and as I mentioned it’s functionally identical to the regular Xreal Air 2 glasses except has lenses with Electrochromic Dimming. https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/xreal-air-2-pro-review https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmente...

arp242 2y ago

According to [1], Linux support is not great: "Unwilling to collaborate. Unofficial, open-source SDK. Exhibits drift, noise.". The VITURE and RayNeo ones that have "Official collaboration" seem to be roughly similar price. I haven't researched in-depth yet though. I looked up some YouTube reviews a few weeks ago, but I found it hard to really compare from that. And of course none of the reviewers are using Linux, because they're not cool like that. I wonder if anyone here has any experiences with it on Linux? [1]: https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver

anonzzzies 2y ago
Their software support (xreal) is very terrible, but most users don't use that anyway; they use it as a normal-ish looking, cheap, fast, long battery big screen. I use it with my s22 ultra in dex mode: it's light, I code/develop with codespaces, termius and vnc. I have very long battery life and it all fits in a little man bag including my foldable keyboard/trackpad. It's the future I use every day. I am looking to the Viture and others, but so far they are more expensive and not better according to the reviews I have seen. I only care about code and the incidental movie (it's great to put noise cancelling headphone, the protection cap (blocking all light) and just sit in the cinema alone.