I originally bought these both as a comparison and a temporary stop gap while I waited 2 weeks for my VITURE One glasses to ship from China. During those 2 weeks, I got full days long tests for these. I used them on my iPhone (with the extra suggested adapter), Steam Deck, and Macbook Pro laptop.
I was visiting my parents for a week and, as they have no monitor nor room for a monitor, my primary development monitor was the XREAL Air glasses. I worked in these for 8 hours a day for 5 days. And it worked surprisingly well. Given that they are only 1080p, I had to zoom out to shrink the text on my code development low enough that I could see 2 columns of code in the glasses. However, the view was always clear and sharp, if a little pixelated.
Using them with the Steam Deck was always solid. I have played 15-20 hours of No Man's Sky in these and the only difference from playing on my PC running at 4K with a RTX 4070 Ti is that the graphic fidelity is obviously lower. But the gameplay is just as smooth and I can accomplish all the same missions and tasks as on PC.
The experience on the iPhone was probably the most rough because the bulky, awkward adapter makes it basically impossible to use with the phone in your pocket as it will awkwardly droop out of your pocket with the heavy end of the adapter flailing out. I mainly use the iPhone adapter by laying the iPhone flat on a table face down while I do the long ritual of brushing my teeth for some orthodontic aligners I'm wearing.
Then, finally, after 2 weeks my VITURE One glasses arrived and I fully expected to be ready to replace the XREAL Air glasses with them. To my surprise, I did not. The VITURE One glasses had the following advantages I fully expected:
- Much more solid and protective case
- More comfortable and stylish frame
- Better dimming when not using the face shield
- Higher quality, more isolated sound
- Seemingly cooler running temperature
- A technically sharper and more high resolution image
However, there was one huge problem: no matter how much I fiddled with the dials and nose attachments on the VITURE One, I could almost *never* get a completely clear image. Fringing and blurriness was rampant. There is *no way* I could have developed in these for the 8 hours a day 5 days a week like I did with the XREAL Air. The text simply would never have been clear enough. And even on No Man's Sky on my Steam Deck, there was an unacceptable amount of blurring on text in the inventory screen that would have driven me mad. If all I wanted to do was watch movies and play games with no text in the interface, the VITURE One may have been fine. But for reading text, the blurriness was unacceptable.
Also, the VITURE One didn't come with the face shield, meaning there was always some light pouring through even with the dimmer active. Not to mention that I had to activate the dimmer *every time* I plugged them into a device. After a week of total darkness clarity using the face shield on the XREAL Air, that was also unacceptable.
Popping the XREAL Air back on after fiddling with the VITURE One for an hour, the difference was immediate. No fiddling. No adjustment. Just an immediate, completely lucid picture, if slightly more pixelated.
So much to my surprise, I will be sending the VITURE Ones back and keeping the XREAL Air. From the only comparison video I could find, the XREAL Air also has this no-fiddle clarity advantage over other XR glasses like TCL. As far as I can tell, these are currently the best on the market. Also, at the time of this review you can get them in a single day rather than waiting 2 weeks, which is a nice bonus.
Edit: If you would like a snap case that is better than the stock one, the Oakley Large Metal Vault is the only one I have found on Amazon that is big enough. It is hard shell, providing much better protection than the soft, flimsy stock case. And since it snaps open and closed, you don't have to fiddle with a zipper every time you use the glasses.
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Price
| $299.00 | $449.00 | $399.00 | $549.00 | $39.99 | $498.00 |
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Electrochromic Dimming
| No | Yes | No | Depend on Glasses | Depend on Glasses | Depend on Glasses |
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Weight
| 79g | 75g | 72g | Beam 153g | Hub 34g | Adapter 74g |
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Audio
| 1st-gen | 2nd-gen, Directional audio | 2nd-gen, Directional audio | Depend on Glasses | Depend on Glasses | Depend on Glasses |
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Virtual Display Size
| 130'' at 4m | 130'' at 4m | 130'' at 4m | Up to 330" at 10m | 130'' at 4m | 130'' at 4m |
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Connectivity
| USB-C DP | USB-C DP | USB-C DP | USB-C DP/HDMI/Lighting | USB-C DP | HDMI/Lightning |
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Mobile device with USB-C DP
| Air Casting | Air Casting | Air Casting | Unlock Spatial Display | Power and play | Not required |
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iPhone 15
| Air Casting | Air Casting | Air Casting | Unlock Spatial Display | Power and play | Not required |
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iPhone 14 and earlier
| Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Unlock Spatial Display | Use with Adapter/Beam | Air Casting (w/ AV Adapter) |
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SteamDeck/ROG Ally
| Air Casting | Air Casting | Air Casting | Unlock Spatial Display | Power and play | Not required |
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Nintendo Switch(Lite excluded)
| Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Unlock Spatial Display | Power and play | Air Casting (w/ Switch Stand) |
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PS 5, Xbox X/S
| Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Use with Adapter/Beam | Unlock Spatial Display | Use with Adapter/Beam | Air Casting |
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PC device with USB-C DP
| Air Casting | Air Casting | Air Casting | Unlock Spatial Display | Power and play | Not required |
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XREAL's mission is to make AR accessible for everyone with it's line of AR glasses, XREAL Air and XREAL air 2 series, accompanied by XREAL's self-developed 3D interactive system Nebula and MythReal Optical Engine.
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Design Looks Cool But- Uncomfortable Physically and Visually
Edit: XReal reached out to me and took my feedback to heart and said they are working on stabilizing the Nebula app and are also working on longer arms. I'm excited to see some updates to this as much potential as it has. A company taking feedback to heart like this is a big deal in my book so I'm bumping my review up to 3 stars.Many people love the device, and most of those I've noticed are people who bought it for gaming, movies etc. Admittedly part of my own negative experience (other than the physical discomfort) was that I'd bought these for work and the quality of the text was very fuzzy especially around the borders. So if you are buying these for gaming and you either have a smaller head size or feel comfortable modding these as others have, then these are potentially still for you despite my own personal experience.-------------Finally some AR Glasses that dont look incredibly dorky or bulky, they actually look decently like normal glasses. That said for usability- The nebula app for Mac was a bit unstable and would freeze up with two of my virtual monitors merged in the center and Id have to kill the app. This would happen when I had a window screen docked and then clicked back into it to bring it up on screen. I also noticed it had a “jello” effect where turning my head side to side had a noticeable wobble. Immediate visual relief when taking them off. As far as comfort, I couldn't stand these. Within 10 or 15 minutes I had a major pressure point behind my right ear. You can see it in my review pictures if you look just a bit. Looking at reddit this is a common complaint, some people modifying these with medical tape or or foam (or even using a heat gun to bend the plastic out!) What I don't understand is the logic to put a hard angle right where the surface is that contacts your ear. Even if the average head size is smaller in China (which is my guess) this still seems like a design oversight. It may be due to wanting the right side to match the left where the USB plugs in. This is also why the pain is on the right side, the USB extends the arm so it doesn't create a pressure point there.For video the image quality was great, though I'm sure it would be better if I was on Android, iPhone users have the screen size somewhat limited. (They also don't have to buy two adapters to make it work). Video quality out of my Macbook Pro when the nebula app was working was great, screen brightness was perfect.For reading text (the main reason I got this, the text quality was very hazy, especially on the outer perimeter. Again looking at reddit reviews, I'm not the only one who has noticed this. If you want these for work and reading documents, word processing, etc... these might not be your best bet.Overall, cool concept, I like the styling on these vs “traditional” VR/AR headsets, felt like something I might get away with using at a coffee shop and not turn heads, but ended up being unusable.
Top reviews from other countries
JustWeird_NoBoring
It works really well and even better with the XReal Beam. Geek heaven!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2023paddy567
Good hardware - bad software. Great portable monitor, but be realistic with expectations
Reviewed in Singapore on June 14, 2023
J Morales
Bonitas gafas con varios peros
Reviewed in Mexico on July 29, 2023
J Morales
Reviewed in Mexico on July 29, 2023
Puntos positivos:
*Tiene muy bonitos colores.
*La imagen tiene buena resolución 1080p, los juegos de steam deck se ven mejor en estos lentes que conectándolo a una tv de 1080p.
*No me provocan fatiga visual al usarlas por un tiempo prolongado (1hr-2hrs), como si me ocurría al jugar directamente en la pantalla del steam deck que al ser pequeña a veces se dificultaba leer algunos textos como por ejemplo en cyberpunk, que en las gafas todos los textos se ven perfectamente legibles.
*Se ven como gafas de sol normales, no luces mal o raro usándolas como las de otras marcas que e visto.
*Prácticamente es "plug and play" con mi steam deck y con mi laptop, incluso con el ipad de mi esposa, solo concetas el cable y se ve la imagen de la pantalla, quisiera que así fuera con cualquier otro dispositivo.
*Incluyen pequeñas bocinas estéreo a cada lado por lo que se escucha muy claro el audio, en mi caso prefiero usar mis audífonos bluetooth, pero es un buen agregado, seria perfecto si se pudiera controlar el volumen desde los lentes.
Puntos negativos:
*Los bordes de la pantalla se ven borrosas, las letras se ven dobles, como con ghosting en los bordes de la pantalla (No se si esto le ocurre a todos o solo a mi porque tengo un poco de astigmatismo).
*Con mis dispositivos solo funciona como un pantalla adicional, no como realidad aumentada.
*No e logrado conectarlo con mi iPhone, porque tiene entrada lightning y por lo que e leído se ocupan por lo menos 2 adaptadores, lo cual hace perder un poco de su portabilidad tener que comprar y cargar con dos accesorios adicionales, deberían de incluir con algún cable intercambiable o adaptador que facilite la conexión con iPhone, pero se vende por separado y se ocupan dos adaptadores, por lo que la idea me desagrada un poco.
Puntos que ayudarían a mejorar esta calificación:
*Estoy esperando a que lancen la aplicación de nébula para Windows, que actualmente esta en beta.
*Estoy esperando que pongan a la venta aqui en México el xreal beam, porque podría ser la solución para poder usar las gafas con mi iPhone y con mi Nintendo switch, lo que para mi agregaría mas valor al producto.
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