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Anyone know of low priced glasses that can extend monitor into virtual displays in VR? So far I see the lenovo VR set able to do this.

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https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/11/immer... announced very recently

Yes my research showed that Meta can do this via partnership. And that makes me wonder do others need partnerships as well?

There are a few remote desktop type apps for the Quest. The partnership is primarily a branding exercise, I would assume.

https://visor.com and https://immersed.com

Immersed works with lots of VR headsets, Visor is their bespoke HW shipping in '25

In theory. In practice, they have failed to demonstrate a single fully functional headset to any external media, and their marketing strategy is borderline predatory ("lock in a better price for your subscription before it's too late!")

I'll believe it when I see it.

The day after the botched demo they had a few of the community members over to their AirBnB for a more hands on demo. Those people have spoken in the discord on their experience

They have been keeping with updates as best they can, production lines are starting up, but they also have large orgs like Qualcomm dictating how much they can share. They are not keen to upset their suppliers

I think Xreal will likely be your best option right now, but there software support is not so good. Youll likely go down the rabbit hole and learn about viture and rokid and make more informed decision.

I've got the Viture glasses. There's no support for Linux aside from working as a basic HDMI display over USB-C (so no head tracking, the screen stays welded to the same spot). The Spacewalker app on Android is basically a web / media browser, zero productivity. You can't use it like a launcher and launch other apps. There's Taskbar and Second Screen but these don't work on my Sony Xperia (you don't get window controls like resize, move or close). There is a paid app for Linux that uses the Viture SDK. It's supposed to be decent but I couldn't get it working during the free trial (I'm using OpenSuse Tumbleweed). TBH I got totally fed up with the glasses and lost interest in trying anything further.

So this announcement is actually interesting to me.

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