These glasses might make Apple's $3500 Vision Pro look pointless — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've always got a kick out of doing
2. 0:02dumb-ass portable workstation setups
3. 0:04like using a Mac mini with a Vision Pro
4. 0:07out in public or using the XREAL and Dex
5. 0:09mode for a week at cafes. All of these
6. 0:12were fun, but they actually sucked balls
7. 0:15in reality. My wife couldn't stand it.
8. 0:18>> You're getting more reviews.
9. 0:20>> XREAL and Google are claiming to have
10. 0:22created the Vision Pro experience with
11. 0:25just these glasses that weigh like 95 g.
12. 0:28This video isn't sponsored by anyone, by
13. 0:30the way, so I can get you guys an honest
14. 0:32look at this thing. In this video, I'll
15. 0:34test how good the head and hand tracking
16. 0:36is, how clear the text is for the coders
17. 0:39and graphic designers, and compare it to
18. 0:41the previous XREAL products. I'll also
19. 0:43test how comfortable it is, too. Okay,
20. 0:45humans, I flew 7,500
21. 0:47mi to see this XREAL Aura in person, and
22. 0:50my wife knows how excited I am for this
23. 0:53product. Let's go and see what my wife
24. 0:54thinks of my fashion.
25. 0:56>> You don't look normal.
26. 0:57>> They look perfect.
27. 1:00>> So, I'm going to go up and see it in 30
28. 1:01minutes. Let's go together.
29. 1:02>> All right, let's try this on.
30. 1:04>> You can go ahead, and I'll start by
31. 1:05putting you into an input onboarding
32. 1:07tutorial. Flash through, and then you'll
33. 1:09hear somebody narrate.
34. 1:10>> So, obviously, this is just complete
35. 1:11posture. Ooh.
36. 1:12>> So, let's learn how to get around.
37. 1:14>> see this uh welcome screen.
38. 1:16And so, the first stage is going to
39. 1:17introduce you to the gestures.
40. 1:19>> Then quickly pinch and release each
41. 1:21object.
42. 1:22>> Wait, what?
43. 1:24Oh.
44. 1:26Friggin' hell, look at this.
45. 1:30So, what this is
46. 1:31This is stuck to
47. 1:33>> It's world locked, yeah.
48. 1:34>> Guys, this is crazy.
49. 1:35>> So, once you do get your Galaxy XR, this
50. 1:38is uh
51. 1:38>> Once I do?
52. 1:39>> the exact same uh information
53. 1:40>> Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, sorry. Sorry, I might
54. 1:43as well click this on.
55. 1:44>> So, right now he's actually sequence
56. 1:45breaking the tutorial.
57. 1:46>> During my 1-hour demo, I got to interact
58. 1:49with Android XR for the first time, and
59. 1:51it felt incredibly intuitive and
60. 1:54familiar.
61. 1:54>> Drawing in the freaking toilets.
62. 1:56>> Like you rotate your wrist and pinch to
63. 1:58open the home screen, point at the app
64. 2:00and pinch to open, point at the edge,
65. 2:03pinch and hold to drive windows around.
66. 2:05>> So it doesn't want to bother you.
67. 2:06>> Oh, this is crazy.
68. 2:07>> Use your other hand to open tools in
69. 2:09apps or extra menus for games. Also, if
70. 2:13you turn on the dimming and you turn to
71. 2:14look at a human head, the dimming turns
72. 2:17off automatically. Which was pretty
73. 2:19cool. The head tracking was surprisingly
74. 2:21good. So I tried to break the tracking.
75. 2:24>> It shouldn't be this good.
76. 2:26What if I just
77. 2:28Far out.
78. 2:30>> Yeah.
79. 2:31>> What if I just
80. 2:32Whoa! Bro, this is like Vision Pro
81. 2:34level. The most impressive to me was the
82. 2:37eye comfort compared to the previous
83. 2:39Xreal glasses. So I compared them on the
84. 2:41spot. These are the Xreal ones I've been
85. 2:43using for the past year, yeah? And I
86. 2:45assumed this would be heavier, right?
87. 2:47Cuz you're doing Vision Pro level stuff
88. 2:49on glasses, so I assumed they'd be
89. 2:50heavier, but it's not. They feel the
90. 2:51same. Now, how's the clarity? The
91. 2:54clarity feels similar. I think the
92. 2:56resolution is kind of the same, but the
93. 2:58aspect ratio is different. Vertically
94. 2:59it's probably higher. Let me just plug
95. 3:01this into my phone, and I just want to
96. 3:03do like a side-by-side comparison.
97. 3:07Oh, bro. Immediately I can see so much
98. 3:09with I can see my pants.
99. 3:11I'm not even joking. Yeah, okay, the
100. 3:12field of view sucks.
101. 3:14And it's so reflective it's not even
102. 3:16funny.
103. 3:19No. Okay. Okay, there's a huge Okay, in
104. 3:21terms of hardware there's a huge
105. 3:22difference. This is super reflective.
106. 3:25And it does annoy you, especially when
107. 3:27you're using it not in a pitch-black
108. 3:28room. Whereas this thing, I feel fine.
109. 3:31There's barely any reflections. It feels
110. 3:33much more comfortable to use longer
111. 3:35periods. Uh that's a bigger deal than I
112. 3:36thought. You got two cameras that's
113. 3:38doing all the tracking, and then you got
114. 3:40an actual RGB camera, so that Gemini
115. 3:43knows what you're looking at, and you
116. 3:44can ask it questions, and apps can plug
117. 3:46into it straight away, and you can do
118. 3:48things with that as well. Oh, and for
119. 3:49the dads who want to know if it works on
120. 3:52kids, I tested it on both my fat babies.
121. 3:55I can confirm you will get absolute
122. 3:57instant silence with this tool. Does it
123. 4:00sound like we don't have kids at our
124. 4:02house?
125. 4:03Because you know what? We do.
126. 4:07These glasses on them
127. 4:09and they just not saying a word.
128. 4:12Am I the best dad?
129. 4:15Am I the best daddy?
130. 4:19They don't even reply. I wanted to talk
131. 4:20about the
132. 4:21the finger tracking thing. How how good
133. 4:23was it compared to Vision Pro? Now,
134. 4:26the Vision Pro does feel a little bit
135. 4:29more
136. 4:30sensitive and a little bit more accurate
137. 4:32because there are six cameras on your
138. 4:33face. However, the Xreal Air was wasn't
139. 4:37far behind. It didn't like the head
140. 4:39tracking felt legit. Like it actually
141. 4:42felt like the Vision Pro in terms of
142. 4:44like
143. 4:45things being in place, right? But the
144. 4:47hand tracking, I feel like 1 hour wasn't
145. 4:50enough time, but it didn't feel
146. 4:52comfortable to like move things around.
147. 4:54Like I wasn't like bang bang bang bang
148. 4:56like
149. 4:58Like I wanted to do that like Iron Man.
150. 4:59But when it comes to like recognizing
151. 5:01your hand when you turn your hand, it
152. 5:02always worked um 10 times out of 10. It
153. 5:05is a very impressive piece of tech
154. 5:07because they were able to kind of mimic
155. 5:09like 90% of the Vision Pro with just two
156. 5:12cameras up here, which is insane. All in
157. 5:15all, I think this is exciting. I cannot
158. 5:17wait till Apple makes their version.
159. 5:20Snapchat actually made augmented reality
160. 5:22glasses and the features look insane.
161. 5:25But dude, you look like an absolute nut
162. 5:28job wearing that thing.
163. 5:30I sent a photo of it on my face to my
164. 5:33wife and she said, "You will still be
165. 5:34single." Whilst I was in LA, I posted up
166. 5:37what you guys wanted to know about the
167. 5:39Xreal Airs. And instead of answering
168. 5:41them myself, I had the privilege of
169. 5:43chatting with Ralph, who is basically
170. 5:45the face of Xreal in America. Dude,
171. 5:47thanks for doing this for me.
172. 5:48>> Happy to do it. Thanks for checking us
173. 5:50out.
174. 5:50>> Now, first question I have, why are we
175. 5:52using a puck instead of our phone?
176. 5:55>> Yeah, it's a great question and it it's
177. 5:57a pretty simple answer. It's because the
178. 5:59puck is a full-on AI spatial computer
179. 6:03and your phone's not.
180. 6:03>> Now, I've been a user of the previous
181. 6:06XREAL stuff since the Air 2 Pro and the
182. 6:09immediate thing I noticed when I chucked
183. 6:11these on is the field of view is
184. 6:14massive. Can you explain how you guys
185. 6:16did that?
186. 6:17>> Yeah, and you nailed two of the
187. 6:18important things. So, the field of view
188. 6:20went up while physically the lenses got
189. 6:22smaller. And then we were able to shrink
190. 6:24that down by 15% but make the screen
191. 6:29more than 44% larger. So, we went from a
192. 6:31triangular bird bath to a flat prism
193. 6:33lens and this is smaller but bigger,
194. 6:36right? It's much smaller physically but
195. 6:38it gives you a 70° field of view. So,
196. 6:40you go from 46° to 70°. It is a massive
197. 6:44field of view.
198. 6:45>> Has there been a resolution increase and
199. 6:47why aren't we seeing
200. 6:49at least 1440p?
201. 6:50>> This is 1200p, you're right. We know how
202. 6:52to go higher than that in the future but
203. 6:54one of the things also is it's
204. 6:55expensive. We're not ready to sell a
205. 6:57$4,000 device. We could but that's not
206. 6:59accessible to anybody.
207. 7:01>> How much is it going to be?
208. 7:02>> I see what you're doing.
209. 7:05It will be below $1,500.
210. 7:07>> Does it work in a plane, in a car, in a
211. 7:08train? That was one of the questions
212. 7:10that they asked.
213. 7:10>> Yes.
214. 7:11All of them. Yeah, it's really cool.
215. 7:13There's a travel mode that automatically
216. 7:15kicks in if it notices drift.
217. 7:17>> What has been the most useful realistic
218. 7:19use case
219. 7:20>> Yeah.
220. 7:21>> for you?
221. 7:22>> I work in my XREAL glasses honestly 4-5
222. 7:24hours a day. Like I'm a power user. I
223. 7:26took my monitors off my desk in my
224. 7:28office. Like I will work 4-5 hours a day
225. 7:31in mine.
226. 7:31>> Yeah.
227. 7:32When can I take this and can I be the
228. 7:33first one to use it?
229. 7:35>> It's coming soon. It will launch this
230. 7:36fall.
231. 7:38We'll make sure you get it a little
232. 7:39earlier than the average customer.
233. 7:42>> Now, someone asked it looks when you're
234. 7:44just walking around. From the front, it
235. 7:46kind of looks like normal Ray-Bans, but
236. 7:49from the side, you do look like a
237. 7:51douchebag, and the glasses sit a little
238. 7:53further away from your face. But,
239. 7:57why the hell do you care if you got
240. 7:59spatial computing at your fingertips and
241. 8:01a 300-in monitor to play Forza Horizon
242. 8:04on the plane? Another great question
243. 8:06was, "What the hell is this even for?" I
244. 8:09reckon this will be an awesome
245. 8:10entertainment device when you're
246. 8:12chilling at home, like watch YouTube,
247. 8:14connect your Switch or your Steam Deck
248. 8:16to it, and then a productivity device
249. 8:18when you're on the go or traveling. By
250. 8:20the way, after using the XREAL Air for
251. 8:22an hour, one thing is very clear, these
252. 8:25were not made for you to walk around and
253. 8:28just live life, go shopping, and you
254. 8:31want to be sitting down, either at a
255. 8:32desk, at a cafe, on your couch, at the
256. 8:35beach, or whatever. In the plane, it's
257. 8:37not a fashionable thing, like you got
258. 8:38this cable hanging out the side, you've
259. 8:40got this puck you've got to attach to
260. 8:42your pants. I would personally do it.
261. 8:44I'll probably live with it for like 3
262. 8:46weeks straight. Like, uh during the
263. 8:49demo, they did show off some impressive
264. 8:51games, but I just can't imagine calling
265. 8:54the boys over and everyone wearing these
266. 8:57playing a board game like a bunch of
267. 8:59idiots. Like, I just don't see the
268. 9:01actual use case of that. Do you know
269. 9:03what I mean? Actually, that's probably
270. 9:05exactly what I'll do when I get my
271. 9:06review unit. It seemed like everything
272. 9:08that they were showing off to me was
273. 9:10like a showcase for the technology, but
274. 9:12it's not like we haven't seen the
275. 9:13technology before. We have seen them. It
276. 9:16is the first time seeing this technology
277. 9:18in like
278. 9:20glasses.
279. 9:22You do look ridiculous from the side,
280. 9:23but it's still glasses, and the fact
281. 9:25that you can do the same things that you
282. 9:27could do on like the Vision Pro is
283. 9:29pretty cool. Like, Google Maps was
284. 9:32pretty cool, like being able to look
285. 9:33through Google Maps and like really get
286. 9:35into the street view and have like, you
287. 9:37know look around and stuff like that.
288. 9:38Painting was pretty cool, but I don't
289. 9:40know man. These all just kind of felt a
290. 9:42bit like a gimmick. Like I'd rather just
291. 9:44use Google Maps on my phone or on my
292. 9:46laptop to be honest. For me, I'm
293. 9:49genuinely excited to replace my laptop
294. 9:53monitor when I'm on the go. So yeah, so
295. 9:55whilst I'm working, whilst I'm gaming,
296. 9:57whilst I'm doing anything, you can
297. 9:58always have other apps open on the side,
298. 10:02which was the beautiful thing about
299. 10:04Vision Pro. But the fact that it's this
300. 10:06light, that puck. Here's my first
301. 10:09impressions of the puck when I first
302. 10:11looked at it. Oh, and this puck thing.
303. 10:13This is a thick boy. Like I I I was
304. 10:16wondering why you couldn't just use your
305. 10:17phone. Some people might complain about
306. 10:19this, but I love that XREAL doesn't have
307. 10:22all the batteries in here. That way it
308. 10:23keeps it light. Like can you imagine?
309. 10:27But this is what a normal headset feels
310. 10:29like.
311. 10:30Okay, I'm here with my baby joy.
312. 10:32>> Hello.
313. 10:33>> I totally forgot to say that the puck
314. 10:35actually has function outside of just
315. 10:38being a computer. It is actually a touch
316. 10:40screen. So you could imagine if it's
317. 10:42like pitch black, obviously the hand
318. 10:44tracking might not work. So you can
319. 10:45actually use that as a pointer device.
320. 10:48>> Back to the video.
321. 10:50>> Battery life.
322. 10:51And this is not getting hot at all.
323. 10:53>> In terms of battery life, 4 hours until
324. 10:56we get to like 30%.
325. 10:57>> I don't think anyone's going to sit here
326. 10:58for 4 hours, but 4 hours is good. Now,
327. 11:01what is my prediction for the XREAL Air?
328. 11:05Like is this going to actually take off?
329. 11:07Um is it actually going to start a new
330. 11:09industry, you know? I asked Ralph a
331. 11:12question about the resolution. Like why
332. 11:14are you sticking with 1080p? And the
333. 11:15reason was it costs more. I wish they
334. 11:18had a pro version for those people who
335. 11:20are willing to pay more to get the
336. 11:23higher resolution. One of the biggest
337. 11:24things for me when you're editing video,
338. 11:27especially when you're like writing
339. 11:28scripts and working with text, you want
340. 11:30it to be sharp. I can get by with video
341. 11:33editing cuz I don't really need to like
342. 11:34look at the pixels and stuff like that.
343. 11:36To be honest, if they want to go beyond
344. 11:39the early adopters, the tech heads,
345. 11:41people like me, um they need that killer
346. 11:43app. I still have not seen an app where
347. 11:45I'm like, "Damn, this is the thing."
348. 11:47>> So, my wife says I looked like a puff.
349. 11:49Look what she's doing right now.
350. 11:53>> Hm?
351. 11:54>> What are you doing?
352. 11:55>> Don't talk to me.
353. 11:58>> Right now, I've got the script on the
354. 12:00left side, right? And this is augmented
355. 12:03reality, so I can see straight through
356. 12:04it. That's why I'm able to just
357. 12:06just walk, right? But um I've got the
358. 12:09script on the left side,
359. 12:11and I'm walking around with the video
360. 12:14feed of this camera on the right side.
361. 12:17We're living in good times. Our family
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371. 12:40there who is literally funding an
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373. 12:45farm. And I I literally went there and
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376. 12:51day saying that the kids have doubled in
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