Only history I have with AR/extended display glasses was the Oculus headsets that Samsung phones were attached to where you used your phone as thr screen. This offering is light-years ahead of using a cellphone screen as your display, but in some ways less sophisticated. I spend all day staring at code on computer screens. I am farsighted, so I do not wear glasses for work or reading, but I do for driving and anything else that I need to see distances well. Seeing as these screens are about 2" from my eyes, they should be fine, right? No. Edges are blurry.
The TCL app that is supposed to unlock the potential of these glasses is terrible. The app gives you a virtual environment to explore with very little usable content. Only app available is a web browser. None of the interactive content works on my phone. Any games or apps used in this environment are all side-loaded (direct apk downloads from who knows where) so you will need to disable some security features of your phone (android) and the games I tried were not even compatible with my phone (Samsung S24 Ultra). The main software interface insists there is a firmware update available, but will not update, while a different area of settings states the firmware is more current that the one the other area says is available. The interactive environment is essentially a 180⁰ horizontal plane, but the center point of the plane slowly and methodically matches to the left, resulting in having to recenter the view every 30-seconds or so. In short, the TCL app is annoying and worthless.
The windows app is a bit more pleasant, but requires setup every time you use it. You have to drag-and-drop the windows you want to interact with into a frame. Don't have Teams in your frame and you get a call or message? Take your glasses of and work with the desktop. Interacting with captured windows is descent, but the overall experience is clunky.
As a screen mirroring device, it works well and is really the only solid use at this time. Picture is vibrant and clear (aside from my edge blur issues). Screen follows your head so you cannot treat it as a fixed screen that you can turn your head to focus on one area. Just a floating screen directly in front of you regardless of where you turn your head. Want to watch any of the multitude of vr 3d content out there? I have not found a way to do it.
With better software, the potential is there, but it seems like a really expensive portable monitor at this point.
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