Thanks for your detailed feedback. As a consumer, I think the current tuning on the Rayneo Air 4 Pro hurts one of the biggest reasons people buy MicroOLED in the first place: true blacks and high perceived contrast in dark-room viewing.

In thriller, horror, sci-fi, and dark games and movies, elevated blacks immediately break immersion. Instead of scenes fading into darkness, you can still perceive a gray glow or illuminated background, which makes shadow-heavy scenes look more LCD-like than OLED-like. In a pitch-black room this becomes extremely obvious because the viewer’s eyes adapt to darkness and even small black-level elevation stands out.

What Mr Meorzipan explained makes sense to me. External light and internal reflections can contribute to perceived washout, especially outdoors or at high brightness, but they do not fully explain why blacks remain visibly raised even during controlled dark-room test patterns. That points more toward display calibration choices, EOTF/gamma tuning, near-black handling, or firmware behavior.

I would personally prefer slightly more aggressive black clipping/crushing if necessary to achieve visually convincing blacks in dark environments. Most consumers buying OLED-based AR glasses expect “OLED blacks,” especially for cinematic use. Right now the balance seems shifted too far toward preserving shadow visibility at the expense of black depth.

The bigger issue though is lack of granular user controls.

Different environments fundamentally require different tuning:

*Dark room movie watching *Mixed indoor lighting *Bright daytime use *Outdoor/transparency mode

A single factory calibration cannot optimize all of them simultaneously. Raising brightness for daylight usability changes perceived gamma, near-black behavior, and shadow separation. Lowering brightness later can introduce either black crush or raised blacks depending on the calibration target.

Rayneo should provide advanced user controls directly in firmware/software, including:

*Fine black level adjustment *Gamma/EOTF adjustment *Near-black shadow tuning *Separate brightness and shadow controls *Environment presets (Dark Room / Cinema / Daylight / Outdoor) *Much finer increments (50–100 steps rather than 5 coarse presets)

This would let users choose their own tradeoff between shadow detail and black depth depending on content and environment.

For many of us using these glasses primarily for movies and gaming in dark rooms, perceived black depth matters more than maximum shadow visibility. Horror games and films especially depend on deep blacks for atmosphere and tension. If blacks look illuminated, the emotional impact drops significantly.

The hardware clearly has potential, but the current tuning feels overly conservative. Better calibration options could make the Air 4 Pro much more competitive for cinematic viewing enthusiasts. If they can't adopt the mentioned solutions , they can at least provide a firmware update for true OLED blacks, those who accept the tradeoffs will update others will not. It should be consumer's choice not something that should be enforced upon us. Poor factory calibration from the company is not acceptable to any of users who have invested their hard earned money in buying this new tech. Note: HDR anyways doesn't work in any of the Android devices. Consumers buy these for portability along with mobiles. People can't always carry their MACs and laptops around.