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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | 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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dgellow ◴[16 Oct 24 20:27 UTC] No.41863508[source]▶
Can you use them with a steam deck? That would be a pretty cool use case!
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longitudinal93 ◴[16 Oct 24 20:39 UTC] No.41863615[source]▶
Absolutely. Been travelling with a SD and Xreal Airs for the past 2 years. Fantastic for gaming and video consumption.
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ncr100 ◴[17 Oct 24 04:17 UTC] No.41866384[source]▶
Does the device ignore head tilt, keeping the screen in-place as your head moves?
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hobos_delight ◴[17 Oct 24 04:54 UTC] No.41866523[source]▶
It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency".

https://www.xreal.com/air2/

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1. lewispollard ◴[17 Oct 24 09:58 UTC] No.41868024[source]▶
That's only with the XReal Beam. I don't know if it's possible to use the Beam and an external device like the Steam Deck together though.

Edit: yes, it appears it has a passthrough for displaying an external device - it does introduce a little latency though.