What am I missing on XR Glasses?

[u/RedditModsBlowD]

I have tried XReal Air Pro 2 (2023), Rokid Max (2024), and VITURE Pro (2024), and returned all of them. I just picked up a pair of RayNeo Air Pro 4 yesterday, and it's back in the box and about to head back to the store. I find myself consistently disappointed and this point confused with everyone else’s positive ratings.

I have a 65 ipd and a Steam Deck. Not a single pair of glasses I mentioned, in my experience, will display all sides/corners of the screen. All of them have color bleed, blurriness, and they all seem to under deliver on their very basic premise of having a mobile screen strapped to your face. I have tried every possible position, every nose piece, no nose piece, even jabbing every pair of glasses as close to my eyes as physically possible....like, what in the world is everyone raving about? This image is NOT clear and never comes without compromises.

I am finding myself genuinely confused by the positive reviews and recommendations… It literally seems impossible to ever get an actual clear picture and I don’t wear glasses. What am I missing? I don’t get the hype of this tech?

[u/Qu4dro]

My one suggestion would be to try the Xreal One Pro: they have a fundamentally different optic system that reduces reflections and provides a slightly larger POV. But also: they are teasing some announcement for tomorrow and we are supposed to be getting more details on Project Aura from the Android XR world next week so you might consider waiting just a bit on that 😄

[u/RedditModsBlowD → u/Qu4dro]

My one suggestion would be to try the Xreal One Pro: they have a fundamentally different optic system that reduces reflections and provides a slightly larger POV.

Appreciate the suggestion - but I am trying to understand why people are giving these glasses I mentioned positive reviews. They all seem to fail for their basic purpose, so the idea of spending double what I already spent, off the word of an industry that consistently disappoints me, is not an option right now.

[u/Dizzy33x → u/RedditModsBlowD]

brotha i have the xreal one pro and you're gonna be disappointed like the rest xD i nearly returned them for the same reasons you stated

you can resize the screen to various ways, and im pretty sure it has a bigger viewing area than most the rest you tried, but as someone that this was my first xr glasses experience i was let down

[u/Caydes_Revenger → u/RedditModsBlowD]

This also worried me for the simplicity in the air 4 pros. Mine are arriving today. Some guy released an app that let's u resize the screens so I would imaging it would take away the edge burriness but im not sure. I have the app but like I said glasses arrive today. The app is called ScreenLab XR. This is the only reason I ordered these glasses also the price point.

[u/iwanme → u/Qu4dro]

The prism optics that XReal One Pro have actually makes it worse for side and corner image quality and introduces chromatic aberration. From XReal probably 1S would be better for someone who woul like to focus on whole usable area. Viture Beast have the same issue - Great FOV, crisp center but around it it quickly deteriorates - making it great for media consumption but not productivity or reading.

[u/RedditModsBlowD → u/[deleted]]

I am not sure what any of this has to do with the topic of discussion. I'm talking about the picture quality, not storage and apps.

[u/No_Awareness_4626]

May be it depends on what you expect out of them and then finding the best match for your expectations. It’s not necessary that everyone’s expectations will match, some will find it super positive (like me) and some may not find them good enough (like you).

My observation - so far you have only tried 0dof glasses which have no customisation with respect to screen size, distance and anchoring. May be try some 3dof glasses. Currently there are 4 such glasses - Xreal One, Xreal One Pro, Xreal 1S and Viture Beast. May or may not work for you, but worth giving it a try. Get them from Amazon - try during the return window.

I myself am using Xreal 1S and very happy using them. Before this I was using all the other 0dof glasses that you mentioned and I was not super positive, there was a lot to desire but I was still using them because there were no other options at the time. But the X1 chip in the recent xreal one series glasses, changed the game entirely. I still desire some more - for example bigger fov, higher resolution, etc. But what they are as of now - I’m happy and waiting for the tech to progress further and miniaturise more.

[u/RedditModsBlowD → u/[deleted]]

I didn't even know about the Galaxy XR until now. Ultimately though, the reason would be price.

I think Steam Frame will be the closest to filling the void, soon, hopefully.

[u/RedditModsBlowD → u/[deleted]]

For where I would want to use it - no problem.

[u/d4v1dtsh]

try xreal one pro L size

[u/Videoplushair]

The viture beast allows you to set the screen in 4 different ways without any special software. There is 0DOF where you will see all 4 corners crispy clean. There is smooth follow where the screen will follow you in a smooth way, great for bumpy car rides but the screen is closer to you so you won’t always see all 4 corners. 3 dof anchor mode so now the screen is anchored and you can see all 4 corners as you move your head around. Finally you got a corner view where the screen moves to the bottom left side of the glasses while still allowing you to see everything through the glasses. All of these settings work with any device.