www.slashgear.com: It would not be hyperbole to say that XReal glasses have been an absolute game changer for me. I travel a lot for work, and travel (in-car, in-airplane, or otherwise) also tends to be downtime. Spending hours in a small seat, designed for people much smaller than my 270-pound frame, means that I often cannot spend that time doing anything productive, which is to say, I can't just pop open a laptop and do some writing while flying across the Atlantic Ocean.
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How have I never heard about these? I've seen and read about the META glasses, VR headsets, and 3D glasses, but this is a game changer that I feel the public is not aware of. The ability to have both prescription as a projection screen is magic to me. I am not technically savvy enough to understand the mechanics behind the tool, but I am fascinated by how it doesn't rely on a battery and the speaker capabilities.
As someone who travels a lot and would theoretically have good reasons to use them, I'm not sure how I feel about XReal glasses. It feels like we are getting one step closer to the humans from Wall-E. As technology advances and conveniences are easier to come by, I believe we are becoming less human.
At the same time, this tool can be used to enhance experiences if utilized properly. I'm curious if there is any way we can incorporate this into a theatrical production. We've done it in film by adding 3D glasses, so who knows what is possible.
I've spent a fair amount of time around this tech. At the MIT XR Hackathon the big sponsors hand over their hardware for teams to build on, and I went to AWE once because a friend starting a VR game studio needed help. Between the two I saw a lot of cutting edge headsets and, more usefully, what people were actually trying to build with them. Interestingly every new pair of smart glasses like this reminds me that Google tried this in 2013 and it went nowhere, and it's only come back in the last few years.
I've tried XReal's glasses before, and the issue for me has always been weight. If you want them cordless they need a battery, and a battery big enough to matter adds weight. For something sitting on your face, wearing that for ten hours is not ideal. So it makes sense that this pair skips the battery entirely and pulls power over USB-C, even though that means draining whatever you plug into.
I think this only gets better from here, maybe with wireless charging or something that gets around the battery problem. It's clearly turning into a daily-use tool, which is exactly how the author is using it for work.
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