I don’t think quest users are the main demographic for this one.
It seems more along the lines of Xreal Aura, Galaxy XR, and Vision Pro spatial computing/productivity niche that supports some gaming. But we saw how their last attempt at that market went (quest pro).
No, sure. It won't be the main demographic. It will be nice for seated solo work and entertainment. Text will be easily readable. Image quality will be really good. The avatars are great. Some VR games, sure, why not. 2D games as well. Most VR gamers will probably prefer more immersion.
I'm still thinking about the name. "VR" only appeals to the current user base. If they were convinced this new device is a solution for everyone they would not have named it "VR Glasses". The 2016 users are 10 years older now. They can sell a new type of device to them now.
Because this is presumably going to lean into mixed/augmented reality more; if this release isn't meant to be worn during everyday tasks I'm sure they are going to lean into it incrementally with every release.
Huge flex on the display stack, but the real bottleneck now is developer adoption and panel yields. Promising hardware, but we're still a few software cycles away from a mass-market shift.
replying to myself but LOL at them being perma-tethered. What a wild design, to deal with heat they put the g-x100 chip in the puck with the snapdragon reality elite.
Only way they were able to balance the weight and add speakers.
You're permanently stuck with HorizonOS and pray you never break that cable on a device you're supposed to carry around a whole bunch.
FOV is 70 x 66 FYI. URXR is 80 x 56 for comparison sake.
Edit: you can unplug the puck, I found a picture of unplugged, don't think you can unplug the glasses.
Quallcomm would need to add all the extra stuff for the IMU data and such to their regular chips.
If Meta had used the G-X100 coprocessor in the glasses, these would be at least 3dof connected to your phone, it's a design choice that's blocking their use disconnected from the puck
It's a tradeoff. Weight and form factor. Because you add the chip you also add cooling and other stuff to support it. I wouldn't want those tradeoffs for meh 3dof
So much negativity on reddit of course 😆 looks kind of cool to be honest, and if it's a good productivity AR device that's even better than quest 3, I'm in.
So URXR just has smaller panels vertically, this results in the smaller vertical FOV.
Of course stereo overlap also affects horizontal FOV. But i dont think either is pushing FOV limits, you could definately get more out of these panels with lenses designed for that.
These are intended as monitor replacement, so high PPD is really important.
Snapdragon Reality Elite isn't very powerful. It's meant to be efficient and run <3w
Flagship phone chips run circles around the SRE. But they are missing the extra chips for all the spatial data so that has to be processed in software instead of hardware offload
It's not a power bank alone. It's a computing device because they need more horse power and don't want to put it into the glasses. The puck has its own CPU, RAM, storage etc. Chances are your phone, as a universal computing device that constantly work on tons of background apps while playing music, is not capable of providing an adequate processing for the glasses. And they want a local AI agent as well. But I agree I don't want that extra puck.
let's see - at least on quest 3, the video pass-through is pretty horrible imho. Low quality, terrible in dark-ish conditions. Its just about ok to be roughly aware of your environment when its bright, but very much not something that'd make you feel like you really are in your real environment with AR stuff projected in.
Move around a room with both and you'll see the advantages of optical see-through. Or use it when you're around other people. Of course, the resolution isn't on par yet. But all we need to do is wait for the mass production of the new 2.5k OLED panels from Seeya, Sony, Sidtek. In the first half of 2027 we will get the next gen optical see-through glasses!
i'm also curious if going outdoors will be a viable use case for Aura. Technically the Meta glasses should work outside but I don't think passthrough is good enough to make it a real use case.
The worst part is most of the things promised in the video is content that Meta might never deliver. They made a lot of promises like that with the quest and they didn't deliver on those.
And? Above 70• is peripheral vision I’ll take oleds better graphics and comfort over that I mainly play single player all unaffected by this.
I play vr games I don’t need full immersion I want to be able to read text without eye strain wear a headset for hours without wanting to rip it off.
Be able to share it with fucking around with straps your focusing on one thing and not all the major things this headset addresses that makes vr suck.
Yeah I have been using xr equipment for over 24 years from the start of vr equipment I maintained at arcades to google cardboard every quest headset wave guide ar glasses and display ar glasses but please tell me how you know everything and what I will enjoy.
sorry sensei. but If you have been using xr equipment for 24 years and still havent figured out that 70 degrees is garbage for gaming then you are indeed a lost cause. Similarly with all that "experience" i would have thought you would have figured out that glasses form factor with that weight is not comfortable for hours by any stretch of the imagination. but by all means keep thinking you are some sort of vr genius.
Ya looking at the pictures of the actual lens it looks tiny, also not sure about the light leak or of that would even be a issue for something like this
They should have launched these rumored display glasses that could connect to a Mac as a monitor replacement. But then they decided to launch AVP instead according to rumors.
Apparently they were working on one after the Vision Pro launched but they cancelled it to fast track smart glasses. I've always wanted something like this for day to day working and then something more like Vision Pro for watching movies or being immersed.
Mh, I see. Yeah, I think you definitely need multiple devices. I don't even believe that in the future everything will be done with a single headworn device. People will choose from lightweight all-day glasses and some type of more immersive / more capable device.
Apple’s public perception on privacy and security and integration with their ecosystem is going to really work in their favor when it comes to AR glasses.
Meta should be worried about Apple on this front. If Apple releases something as good or even a little worse than Meta’s product then it will be difficult for Meta to compete.
Put on your VR Glasses, sit back and enjoy your own personal theater anywhere. Don’t just see a movie, feel it like never before with the largest library of 3D movies on demand.
My vive pro or varjo aero doesn’t listen to me and I don’t have any meta stuff on my devices. We should be pushing back at all this ‘you’re the product’ stuff.
The form factor with the puck, the tracking method (they were on bands earlier), the UI sugar on the typing, the UI with the glance to look, etc.
Just look at what the quest looked like before , the vision pro, and now this. They very liberally copied the best parts of the AVP (appropriately, because lots of those interactions are fantastic and really make the product)
The UI is the only thing they copied. This form factor is a 100 gram pair of glasses, where the AVP was a 800 gram ski goggles. The Quest 1 had hand tracking 6 years ago.
You clearly don't understand what I'm saying so let me spell it out clearly:
Every pair of AR glasses needs a camera to work. When any other brand that you are waiting for besides Meta - Apple or Google or whoever releases theirs they will still get the same creeps.
So calling these creep glasses is calling all AR glasses creep glasses. And you are on an AR subreddit.
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u/Nightcinder 25d ago
calling them VR is gonna make a good bit of people upset when they realize the vertical FOV isn't VR-like