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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 4 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.016s | source
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drewg123 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:34 UTC] No.41862238[source]▶
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).

Note that if you have an older (lightning) iPhone, don't bother with these. They require a pair of dongles. Not only does that make things really awkward, but one of the dongles ends up apparently blocking HDCP, and prevents you from using anything but ... your own... downloaded content.

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the_arun ◴[16 Oct 24 19:24 UTC] No.41862835[source]▶
I wear prescription glasses. Does Xreal Air help folks like me or forces me to use Contacts?

update: nvmd. I found this - https://vroptician.com/prescription-lens-inserts/nreal-air

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arbot360 ◴[16 Oct 24 19:29 UTC] No.41862879[source]▶
I use the Viture which supports negative prescriptions by an adjustment dial on the optics.
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cuvinny ◴[16 Oct 24 19:48 UTC] No.41863092[source]▶
Interesting, always wanted to try AR for office work because I travel a lot but the glasses part has always been a killer. Do they work with Linux at all?
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1. okasaki ◴[16 Oct 24 20:01 UTC] No.41863208[source]▶
I think they're just a usb-c monitor, so no reason it wouldn't.
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2. DidYaWipe ◴[16 Oct 24 23:41 UTC] No.41865012[source]▶
AKA DisplayPort
3. pomatic ◴[17 Oct 24 13:56 UTC] No.41869721[source]▶
Actually historically they are pretty finicky about resolution and refresh rate - it's only with the last firmware update or two that they work with RPi reliably for example - I couldn't come up with a working X config for a long time.
4. degrews ◴[19 Oct 24 00:03 UTC] No.41884558[source]▶
Just note that you will also need the Xreal Beam if you want the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head (it's too uncomfortable to use without it IMO).