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points by 2001zhaozhao 1 day ago | 0 comments

I actually don't see any reason why I would use this instead of my Xreal Air (released like 3 years ago) + Samsung Dex. The phone is a perfect "compute puck" for wired AR glasses and Google even makes them, so why the heck are they selling separate compute pucks with these glasses and making them unaffordable?? Just make some pixel glasses that run android xr on the pixel phone instead

[–] jayd16 1 day ago

Those are 3DOF head tracking, right? This is inside-out tracked, 6DOF and hand tracking.

[–] 2001zhaozhao 1 day ago

Hmm, fair point, I suppose I just don't use the hand tracking stuff very often since it's just not very productive (I use portable mouse & keyboard even on my Samsung headset that supports hand tracking).

But even given that the glasses have to support hand tracking and 6DOF, I think they can probably build the sensors into the glasses but compute them with the phone. Or maybe calculating hand tracking would drain the battery of a Pixel too fast or something. Not sure.

[–] rao-v 1 day ago

I think it’s more that you need really good latency guarantees for 6DOF to not feel terrible - it’ll be pretty hard to get that from a multitasking phone

[–] verdverm 1 day ago

Still not enough FOV or pixels

Passthrough is lame compared to real AR

[–] jayd16 1 day ago

I think these are see through additive displays, not passthrough, no?

[–] verdverm 11 hours ago

the demo video (on xreal site) looked to have little screens behind the glasses facade, at least I thought I saw a glimpse of that, assumed it was the same as other devices in this form factor

looking closer, there are two lens like things, bulkier, as say compared to the hololens 2, which is my benchmark for AR/XR (bulky device, but singular lens)

The entire category is socially frowned upon right now as perv glasses because a non insignificant portion of males are utter pervs

[–] ranger_danger 1 day ago

In my case I would need the puck if I'm out and about because my phone does not support DP Alt Mode.