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Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work

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The AR glasses themselves aren't their own design, according to this article in their press section. https://www.wired.com/story/sightful-spacetop-g1-augmented-r...

They are made by a company called real https://www.xreal.com/ . Not familiar with them but the tech seems to be impressive.

I have an XReal Air 2. It's ok. Image can be blurry, especially near the corners. Field-of-view is pretty small. It's fine for watching videos or playing games but I wouldn't want to work on it.

Makes you wonder if they enhanced these specifically for this laptop?

Still all this is pretty cool. These are the sorta things I wish I had when I was 17 after watching Cowboy Bebop for the umpteenth time.

Learn about SpaceOS => Just goes to a page with no information on it...

Is it a ChromiumOS fork or something? Seems to only mention web applications and the only visible screens are a browser window.

The icons look Android-y to me. I'm betting on Android.

on the hiring page they are looking for Android engineers

I chatted with their team at some point; it's android

Looks like the operating system is only for managing browser windows. There are no native apps of any kind. Plenty of great browser apps exist but that's worse than a chromebook in terms of usability.

Hell, it would be great if it where a Chromebook because they can run linux apps.

I would rather someone focuses on AR glasses that work really well and can work with my computer of choice.

The company (XREAL) behind the glasses they're using seems to be doing that. They have a USB-C version: https://developer.xreal.com/?lang=en

It looks like the glasses are actually manufactured by someone else, a company called XReal? I’m not sure if they’re related, but it looks like they’re not trying to invent two things at a time. Well, maybe the OS and the Laptop count

1080P resolution (per eye) for a virtual 100" display? I can't work on a 1080P laptop now without swapping and resizing windows constantly. It would be frustrating to have all that screen real estate and not be able to use it. I also wonder what "per eye" means. Are there wholly different pictures in each (yikes) or just enough to simulate 3D?

Given how useful having a screen is and how little space it takes up, it seems much better to just buy a normal laptop and AR glasses separately.

I love that in this kind of product's advertisement, people are so highly capable of touch-typing. The reality is that most people need to glance multiple times at their keyboards while using it. If these glasses make that a pain, I doubt that people would keep using the product.

The point of AR is that you can indeed look at the real world too. Unless you render something in front of the keyboard.

The claimed "Up to 8 hours of battery for a full day of productivity." makes this a lot more useful for real work on the go verses the "up to two hours of general use, 2.5 hours of video playback" of the Vision Pro.

This might be early AR product but from my friends who use VisionPro , I feel eventually we all will be using something like this often.

Can you expand on why you think so?

Anyone who has spent enough time in AR to compare, how's the headache/eye fatigue compared with VR?

I have used the xreal for about 1.5 years now for work (with Android Dex) and it all works quite well. No headaches or eye fatigue which I do get with the quest 2.

Unlike the downers comments, I find this very exciting. Finally a leap (ugh!) forward that isn't more ppi on a screen.

Even if this product ends up being a sub-par in terms of expectations vs. reality, it's not unaffordable; and it may set a trend forward towards AR computing.

It does look, uh, a little weird on people's face. But at least it's not the size of a cat on your face.

As for the software, all we can hope is that they just open it up. Very few companies in the world can do software and hardware in perfect harmony.

Why is it a step forward over those XReal glasses, for example?

Their OS page seems to imply that it's effectively a Chromebook, which is a bit disappointing. I'd like to see something that has more ability to function on its own, even though I guess this machine is mostly designed to be used in coffee shops.

I can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to do almost nothing useful on an airplane, between the web-apps-only paradigm and the issues with motion tracking on vehicles.

Zero spec info. Eyeroll.

But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.

Specs are here https://www.sightful.com/spacetop-g1

Specs: https://www.sightful.com/spacetop-g1

This is an Android phone in a laptop case and 2 1080P displays in the glasses.

It's a Snapdragon (not even one of the new whizzy ones) laptop running some sort of Android build? Very light duty as an office laptop. If it runs tmux I could probably get Emacs going on it and do some dev, but I sure as shit am not building large Rust codebases on it.

For laptop / other display usage is the one (alleged) use-case I don't get. If it "augments the world around you as you roam it", I can get that. But the screen in front of you that you're staring at for hours? Whatever augmentation would be displayed by glasses could be done by a more-chic-than-we-have-nowadays software on that computer, rendering said "augmentations" right onto the display, no?

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