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Are you able to actually work with the VR glasses?

I bought a pair of viture pro glasses thinking I could use them with my (linux) laptop / (android) phone when travelling as a large external monitor.

But they were usable for coding, too difficult to read the text, too shakey. Would just give you a headache.

It's a cool idea but I decided the technology wasn't there yet and ended up returning them.



You need the right ones.

Xreal One glasses anchor the screen (i.e. it stays in place as you look around), have specific (and adjustable) tech for text clarity, have low chromatic distortion, and do things entirely onboard in the hardware. I've been able to use them for hours comfortably, and have gotten corrective lens inserts to avoid having to use my glasses with them.

They now have a 32:9 mode for ultra wide resolution, which is a real boost to using my work laptop. My aging phone doesn't play as nice as it used to with this mode, but it's a real win having 3 windows arrayed comfortably.

I code and read documents for a living, and I love these things.


thanks - I tried ViturePro when the came out, but felt like I was seeing monitors wearing blinders/through a slit, that wasn't quite big enough to see the whole screen.

Can you fully see the 3 monitors you're using there, And are you on mac or on windows? ie can you see kind of 1.5 monitors at a time, the middle one, and .5 of oneish?


They're not really VR. The Xreals I have are just "a screen stuck to your eyes". No tracking or anything. I don't really mind that. But no the quality is great, I can totally work on it. The resolution isn't perfect as they are OLED and only 2 subpixels per pixel (RGBG) so it looks a bit "brittle" but not "shakey". Shakey sounds like they do have tracking but not working well.

The display isn't huge either, the viture pro looks like it has a much bigger viewing angle so I can imagine the pixels are too spread out to show a decent resolution, like with most VR headsets (except the vision pro).

I use corrective lenses in them. I see the Viture have diopter adjustment but that wouldn't work for me as I have astigmatism.


Thanks, that sounds really good.

Yeah it just wasn't possible to get the text sharp enough to be usable with the vitures.

It is a while back so my memory is hazy. But I feel like the edges in particular were bad or you could focus one part of the screen but others would be distorted.

For coding, reading docs, etc you kind of need the whole screen to be in sharp focus. For watching a movie it's probably less important.




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