XREAL Air AR Glasses, Smart Glasses with Massive 201″ Micro-OLED Virtual Theater, Augmented Reality Glasses, Watch, Stream, and Game on PC/Android/iOS–Consoles & Cloud Gaming Compatible

Most reliably readable XR glasses available afaik
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 imageHowever, 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.

Great then not so great edited
When I got my glasses, I was an instant fan, they work well and I have a Macbook so using the nebula to have three screens was amazing while traveling and doing work tasks privately. The software is not without flaws, but being tech inclined I was dealing with it.I was trying them before I decided to buy them for my staff.I purchased these in May, and now in September, after treating them carefully, always storing them in their case and buying every single accessory they broke on two different occasions on the same arm. The most sever break you can see near the hinge happened when I was taking them off. I have contacted support via their app, but nothing.Glasses are still useable, however, I would no longer recommend them or buy them again for me or my staff. Not sure what is going on with the plastic they are using or why it’s so fragile, perhaps it was a batch issue, but still seriously disappointed because as mentioned the three-monitor feature of nebula really had me hooked in.Xreal finally contacted me and shipped my glasses back and forth to china for repairs.Im glad they did because I am back to using them again.Now that they have netflix (where you can download shows on the beam accessory) this has added extreme value to my travels.Thank you for repairing them.

This is my favourite tech at the moment.Please note, these are not VR glasses.Using with PC:You need to plug it into a usb-c port or buy a converter from usb-c to hdmi if your PC doesn’t have a usb-c port.For Windows, it will just replicate the screen so you can use it as your main display. The screen remains in front of you, even when you move your head.For Macs, you can download and run XReal Nebula software which let’s you create multiple virtual desktops that can be pinned in virtual space.It looks excellent.They are still developing the Windows version.Android phone, you will need to download XReals Nebula app. This has two modes. You can duplicates the phone screen or you can open a virtual environment where you can open apps that can be resized and moved in virtual space. This is currently limited to a few apps, but I use the browser and You Tube mostly. It’s a really nice experience.If you buy the XReal Beam then this let’s you connect to your PC and resize and pin your screen in virtual space. I have a gaming PC setup without a monitor. I use these glasses as my main monitor and play games with a very large virtual screen.It’s a bit pricey if you included the XReal Beam, but I love tech and it’s a great experience especially with games and movies.Lastly, note that XReal are actively developing this and it’s software. I am looking forward to when Nebula is available for Windows.

El concepto del producto me gusta mucho, pero así como tiene puntos positivos también tiene algunos negativos. Como contexto los dispositivos con los que logré conectarlas son mi steam deck, mi laptop windows y el ipad de mi esposa.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.