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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: 0.001s | 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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jcul ◴[17 Oct 24 11:01 UTC] No.41868384[source]▶
These actually look pretty cool, and affordable.

My understanding is that I can just use them as an external monitor, so if I'm traveling I could plug in my linux laptop and just have an external monitor to work on and could play music through them at the same time.

That sounds really tempting to me, travel work setups are always sub optimal. I have a portable external monitor, and can bring my mechanical keyboard, and if there's a spare TV I might also use it.

But it's still not the same as a proper home setup.

Even for working on a couch, it would be nice to have a screen in front of you so you don't have to slouch.

My understanding is that they can be used standalone as a monitor, or if you want to actually do VR stuff, play VR games etc, you need to buy a "XREAL Beam" or "XREAL Beam Pro" which does the VR apps etc?

Not too sure on the differences between Air, Air 2, Air 2 pro etc, but for my requirements they would all probably be fine.

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1. degrews ◴[18 Oct 24 23:59 UTC] No.41884544[source]▶
You can plug them directly into your laptop (as long as it supports DP Alt mode, which I understand is common - my Thinkpad does). But, the virtual monitor will be in a fixed position relative to your head. Which is really not comfortable. In order to get the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head, you need the Beam.

I use the Xreal Air 1 with the Beam on my Thinkpad X1 and it's great. I really recommend it for flights. I don't understand why it hasn't gotten more popular. I can use my laptop comfortably for many hours, which makes long flights a lot more tolerable.

I only use them for laptop productivity. Not sure about VR stuff.