I have the Xreal Air and it's alright. Low resolution and a bit blurry text still. It's the nature of optics right now.

It's a single virtual display by default unless you run a fairly unstable piece of software. I use it mostly on plane flights.

It feels like the tech is almost close enough to really be useful but it's just not quite there yet. It's useful but not pleasant.

> a bit blurry

I found the Epson Moverio very crisp.

...Of course, though, I used at around 12..14 lines per screen. You have virtual relatively small screens in front of your eyes...

Can it be a dumb screen and connect to your own PC like the article?

There also exists models such as the "Epson BT-35E Smart Glasses", which instead of Glasses+Computer (specialized Android device) are Glasses+Connector (HDMI and USB-C). The commercial stub:

> Seamlessly blend digital content into the outside world with the Moverio BT-35E smart glasses, featuring an interface unit with HDMI and USB Type-C ports to connect to popular output devices. It’s like having a wearable second screen, while still seeing the surrounding environment via the transparent HD display. Offering an easy out-of-box experience, the BT-35E connects to virtually any device - no need for special software. And, its interface does not require an external power source when used with a compatible USB Type-C output device

I guess you should realistic about configuring your workspace for optimality around this type of screen - it does not replace a big desk monitor... It is sort of a lower-resolution experience.

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Edit: now are there people who drunkenly act over posts, besides the always pestiferous indecent habit of not justifying your actions, and hit posts that simply replied to poster's requests? "Can it do X", "Well, this model can". Where would be the problem?!

Cool, sounds like it should do the trick, if the text is sharp enough

I would not use this for coding, even with their high end glasses and corrected vision. I don't use all of the fancy 3D, VR features either. They just feel like gimmicks with buggy software for me.

If you keep that expectation and use it like an external dumb monitor, it is great.

I can imagine that such glasses would allow to really work, or at least read comfortably, on an airplane, flying economy class.

I've used my Air for coding work. I found that I couldn't stick with it in Dumb Screen mode. I have astigmatism and the lenses to correct it; and my impression is that the lenses slightly contract the usable FoV which means you need the head tracking to be able to look around the screen more. That means you need the virtual desktop code running on the host (or the dongle, which I don't have) and the OSes you can use are them restricted.

With that, though, it's fine. The main reason I don't spend as much time in them these days is that I'm spending a lot more of my time in video calls than coding and we've not socially normalised big black sunglasses on video calls yet.

Xreal lets you return devices for 30 days. You could try one basically for the cost of return shipping.