Hello HN community,
The various reviews of the Apple Vision Pro have sent me down a rabbit hole on YouTube and reddit regarding other options for replacing my external monitor for the Mac for coding by any type of headset.
It seems, that the most promising options are either meta quest 3 with the immersed app or xreal air2. But it's not very clear to me if any of those two options works that well. I've read everything from "works great" to "total trash".
Does anyone here use a setup like this? Or am i missing a better option?
Thanks!
AR/XR absolutely sucks for anything productivity. Do not be fooled by the massive marketing campaign that Apple is pushing. This stuff is nothing new, headsets have been around for quite some time, and plenty of people have tried to use them for productivity, and they all suck. Lighter units suffer from lower resolutions and lack of capability (many are simply just a display projected in your FOV without any AR/XR), and have issues with blurriness/latency, while heavier headsets are just too bulky to wear for extended periods of time.<p>If you want the most productivity on the go, nothing beats a laptop with good resolutions that runs linux and the i3 windows manager (and no, nothing on Mac comes close). Once you get used to i3 commands, you won't need a second display.<p>For AR/XR, wait till someone releases a pair of glasses with a tiny low res monochrome text based Micro Oled display, with an open source interface.
I mean just for one more data point I have a Quest 2 and doing anything meaningful on it besides playing VR games is just trash. Maybe watching movies/TV is okay but the battery life is crap.<p>Typing and screen mirroring is so delayed that it's unusable.