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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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parhamn ◴[] No.41863783[source]
Does such a thing exist that works for coding? Don't need the AR. My posture/back could use this for when I'm not working at my desk.
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worldsayshi ◴[] No.41864627[source]
I've been looking for this as well but have never heard anyone that found glasses good enough for coding.
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1. holly_kx ◴[] No.41884392[source]
You will need to tweak things to work for your eyes and preferences. In the glasses field of view, black background = transparency; Solarized background in my editor works for me. Same with web pages, I used a browser extension to change white to something similar to solarized background in vscode. YMMV