XREAL held a launch event in China today, in which the company unveiled the Beam Pro. While it may look and even function like an Android smartphone, it's actually a spatial computing terminal for the company's AR glasses. It's currently up for preorder, with a starting price of CNY 1,299 (about $179).https://www.notebookcheck.net/XREAL-Beam-Pro-debuts-as-Android-phone-like-spatial-computing-terminal-for-AR-glasses.842555.0.html
I've used XReal Air 2 pro with Beam for a week now, what's important with the Beam is its 3dof, USB C DP input, and ability to accept streams. The old beam already does that.
Rather than buying this half baked "AR" device with underpowered chip and battery life IMO, its better to buy a used Galaxy device that support DEX, S21 or even older Note series should do just fine, it'd be way more powerful and more useful as a standalone device to boot.
That's cool and stuff but the issue with the first one from the reviews wasn't that it like lacked features it was that the features it had didn't work.
And that seems to be the issue with like if I imagine that it's different when you use these devices with other Chinese devices but things are region locked and they just never seem to function well in the west or not like consistently. Like tablets are the same way like there's a Picasso tablets and x-pen I think are both Chinese brands and Huion, And there's nothing wrong with the tablets and when they work they work fine but when they don't they don't. And there's no way to predict that before you get it so it's not worth it to get it because you're not going to be able to return it if you want to
Quote from: grey on June 01, 2024, 15:29:40That's cool and stuff but the issue with the first one from the reviews wasn't that it like lacked features it was that the features it had didn't work.
And that seems to be the issue with like if I imagine that it's different when you use these devices with other Chinese devices but things are region locked and they just never seem to function well in the west or not like consistently. Like tablets are the same way like there's a Picasso tablets and x-pen I think are both Chinese brands and Huion, And there's nothing wrong with the tablets and when they work they work fine but when they don't they don't. And there's no way to predict that before you get it so it's not worth it to get it because you're not going to be able to return it if you want to
The problem with that idea is it won't work. XReal has had a terrible time getting the glasses to work as an external display for phones and/or laptops and decided to focus on the beam where they can optimize for known hardware devices. The Beam is what makes the glasses useful. Without, there a neat idea but poorly executed and close to worthless.