@mauve did you ever get some AR 'sunglass' style glasses? I'm tempted by https://store.viture.com/products/viture-one-lite-xr-glasses but curious if you have any feedback
@ryanramage Yeah! I daily drive ny Rokid Max headset. https://global.rokid.com/products/rokid-max
The built in diopters are nice so I can show folks with different perscriptions. I have a bit of astigmatism that they can't correct for though.
The readability has been okay for me at the 1080p rez when I'm sitting but I find it useful to bump the scaling to 200% when I'm walking around.
@ryanramage their software offerings are a bit weaker than the XReal for example but the brightness and diopters make it worth it since I mostly want it as a screen. I also paid a person to make OpenXR drivers for it if you're into that sort of thing :P The Xreal Beam is a lot cooler than the Rokid Station tho.
@mauve sorry, more questions... I've been prototyping this with my son's quest 2, but I find the text a bit grainy or off focus depending where I'm focused. Do you think the monitor mirroring of the rokid has crisper text?
@ryanramage I haven't used a quest 2 for this but I find for spatial displays it's good to scale UIs 200% due to it bluring the pixels when you move your head. For the rokid in regular display mode it's like having a literal 1080p screen in front of you so it's about as crisp as that. But that's without any head tracking or AR. I find it comfy to code and browse when sitting and scale up when on the move.
@mauve thanks. Not really looking for head tracking. I did hunt down someone with a quest 3, and it's super clear, and usable. Now that makes me think for the price, quest 3 might be more usable for other things. Decisions 😅
@ryanramage Yeah quest 3 is probably the most pragmatic choice right now. I personally wouldn't allow anything Facebook related on my face and scanning my home, but I am one of those tinfoil hat types so YMMV :P Defs more usable and stable than any open source setup.
@ryanramage just to clarify, when it's not spatial displaying you get the full resolution whereas when it's head tracking you might get blurring. I think the bigscreen beyond and the apple vision pro have sufficient resolution to make spatial rendering clean to use. Maybe quest 3 too?
@mauve I finally picked up a 2nd hand pair (rokid air) for a reasonable price!. After a bit of adjustment I can see how useful these will be
@ryanramage Hell yeah! Do let me know how it goes. Are yah gonna try doing openxr stuff with it on your computer?
@mauve loving them! I have had to do a bit of a hack for astigmatism : https://mastodon.online/@ryanramage/112990075632937597
I've not tried openxr, but maybe I will!
@mauve oh thanks! doing a quick compare, the rokid max seems maybe slightly better. Very tempted now