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Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset

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169 points thelastgallon | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.774s | source
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riedel ◴[22 Oct 25 17:25 UTC] No.45672323[source]▶
1.8k$ that is roughly 10x the amount I paid for my XReal Air 2. Does watching movies. Does work as a display using Android desktop mode and the phone as an air mouse [0] (worked best for me).

Wonder what I get for the other 1.6k, that makes me want it...

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htl.agmous...

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1. rtkwe ◴[22 Oct 25 17:32 UTC] No.45672429[source]▶
The XReals are just screens so no tracking and lower resolution at 1080 vs 4k. They're completely different products.
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2. riedel ◴[22 Oct 25 17:38 UTC] No.45672508[source]▶
It is clear to me that it is different tech. However, I am not referring to the tech, but rather those applications they promoting. IMHO, there needs to be a better case for those features. I acknowledge that people want 4k in other places, so I guess it is partially only me. But particularly for the real AR I somehow doubt that resolution is the problem.
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3. rtkwe ◴[22 Oct 25 19:12 UTC] No.45673751[source]▶
Resolution is extremely important for VR and trying to display screens and text. The best screen you can possibly reproduce is the same resolution as the screens in the eyes and takes up the whole FOV so for anything further back than that the headset can only approximate what the screen would look like (down to the point of diminishing returns where the pixels are smaller than your eye can resolve).