Getting Cicret Bracelet vibes from this one.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Cool, if it works well
If I had $2k and wanted to like like an idiot, I'd put on some giant granny sunglasses and keep the $2k in my savings account.
Who would see you use it anyway sitting in your basement all day?
XREAL Air 2 Pro glasses to give you a virtual “100 inch” display.
Wow!
It’s an ARM-based PC
Good!
it runs a custom operating system called SpaceOS, which is a built on top of Google’s ChromiumOS
Unless the bootloader is unlocked and it's possible to write an open driver for the glasses, Bye.
There are people reverse engineering the glasses right now (I have a pair):
https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver
One of my longshot projects is to convert my framework laptop main board to exactly this. I basically use the glasses a lot more than the screen at this point (it's more convenient at night before bed)
... so they actually managed production/made it feasible ... aaand then decided on ChromiumOS (supposedly because the "monitor" is a bit different)?
Such glasses is what I need from (non-gaming) VR. But not like this :(
You can buy the xreal glass separately for $449: https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air-2-pro
There are actually like 10 exact same glasses from different manufacturers/brands, from 250-ish moneys upwards (you might need various addition interfaces for your devices, like PC, HDMI, etc - sold separately and unreasonably expensive for what they are).
They all use the same design, Sony OLEDs, speakers, batteries, accessories, etc, they only differ in front design.
I wish we had better open source options. I don't want to download Chrome to update firmware on stuff.
I can't tell if this is a good idea or a bad idea. Probably a bad idea at that price point with those specs, but this seems like a much more usable and useful form factor than a fully head mounted system when you factor in the weight of the thing on your head and the input method. Like, I might actually be able to do work on this thing unlike an apple vision pro.
It's a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid...
This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.
This seems really neat, and I hope it doesn't just die somewhere, certainly a cool idea, but 1080p is not nearly enough pixels to stop you from getting a headache after a short while.
Yes, disappointing, but this might not be for the full fov.
It says 50°, and such glasses can be worn on different lengths from the eyes.
Regardless, I agree with you - I absolutely want to see (a lot) more than 1080p of like financial data/code/hentai without moving my head, otherwise I'll just keep using my office monitors.
It will definitely be a brick soon enough but I hope it's at least hackable enough that people do something with it afterwards.
…SpaceOS, which is a built on top of Google’s ChromiumOS…
I’m out.
Linux is… right there. It’s right there.
ChromiumOS is Linux.
Chromium OS is based on Linux.
But yeah, if I can't apt-get the packages I need, fuck it
its not based on linux it uses the linux kernel, but hasnt got the gnu userland things a "standard" linux distro has
So it's Linux, but not GNU/Linux.
or, as i like to call it, gnu plus linux
You can do that with chrome os. Chrome os has a really good Linux subsystem built in nowadays.
And what about Chromium OS?
Didn't actually now there was a chromium version to be honest but i imagine it's very similar to standard Chrome but with less Google
It's literally in the article and the top-level comment.
It's not clear which features are in the OSS version and which are locked-down.
I mean I also completely overlooked that you wrote "Chromium" in your comment too, with my brain just translating that to just "chrome" it seems.
fsck it*
That. Is the goofiest system I have ever seen