After reading this article, I started thinking about buying AR glasses. Could anyone share their experience with them? Also, does anyone here own AR glasses and wear contact lenses? I know it’s possible to add prescription lenses to such glasses, but it would be inconvenient to remove my contacts every time I want to use AR glasses.
I’m working with RealWear. Not really an AR glass, but interesting experience anyway.
There is no headache or nausea at all. That’s the main point compared to immersive VR. You see the real world, so the brain is not disturbed by screen latency. I once kept it on the head 7 hour a day, 5 days in a row and did’t felt any disconfort. Whereas I cannot keep a VR headset for more than 15min.
My company have an R&D lab in California with any kind of VR and AR devices, but I’m in France 😟.
My 2 cents.
I tried the HoloLens once, it was certainly interesting to see digital objects floating in the room. I’m not sure I want my brain getting used to an environjent that isn’t fully physical & real though. I don’t know what the reprecussions of that would be.
The cable can be snagged on things so it’s nice to buy a model where it connects with magnets. Unfortunately for longer haired folks, your hair can get snagged in this area.
The actual experience is pretty decent, albeit slightly disappointing if you’ve grown accustomed to VR - but that is the price you pay for a much smaller form factor. Of course you can’t have a fully immersive screen, it’s “just” a monitor in front of you (and a fairly big one) - again for me, disappointment as I’m used to a 49" uw. 😅 For the use case given by the linked article, it would 100% perform exceptionally well.
It was really nice being able to lie down in bed or on the sofa, and watch whatever you wanted from your phone. It worked with my Nintendo Switch in a nitro+ which made for better posture whilst in handheld mode. 3d mode worked too.
I sold it because I didn’t use it as much as I thought I would, and the one I had had could do with some more improvements. I’m sure newer models will probably make it a more compelling answer now.
Interesting - especially the part about the hair 😅
Does the screen look good? It’s hard to tell from video reviews - it looks like a projector screen. How does the quality compare to a real display?
Hmm I had an older one (TCL nxtwear s), and I wouldn’t be doing graphic art on it, but it more than sufficed for watching shows, playing games, and some light browsing.
If I was buying today I’d probably look at the xreal X1, they’ve made some great strides in the tech.
