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drewg123 ◴[] 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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ChuckMcM ◴[] No.41864342[source]
Does the screen stay in one place or does it move when you move your head? That turned out to be the thing that made viture glasses unusable for me. I get that slam can be hard but I would be okay with sticking a target sticker up somewhere in my field of view and having the glasses force the screen there.
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lewispollard ◴[] No.41867978[source]
I think you need the XReal Beam in addition to the glasses to be able to anchor the screen in space, without it the screen is just fixed to the glasses.
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1. pomatic ◴[] No.41869700[source]
No, that's not right - you can anchor the screen in space with their app. Source: NReal/XReal v2 user.
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2. degrews ◴[] No.41884480[source]
It depends on your device. If your device doesn't support the Nebula app, you need the Beam.