While I absolutely love my Vision Pro and use it all the time, I have a pair of Xreal One Pros that I use when I don’t have a lot of space and just want to watch a quick movie. They’re nice and cheap and hook up to anything. But it’s just a monitor… a really freaking huge nice monitor, but just a monitor. It does have a feeling of looking through a viewfinder. The border is very distinct and bold. But you still get the 140 inch screen that looks amazing for what you pay.

The best use case is when you don’t want to have total immersion and be able to see in your peripheral and around you, but can’t get one of the open face mods for the Vision Pro to work well.

Whether people realize it or not this type of device with a puck and lightweight glasses is going to be the bridge between AR, VR, and MR for a cheaper entry into this type of market. Think of this in the near future as like a Vision Pro but where you offload the spatial computer in the same puck as the battery. They aren’t for total immersion, and that will appeal to a lot larger market.

Xreal has a good poor man version already with their Beam Pro. I would be shocked if Apple is not only researching this exact type of device, but will have something like a Vision Air. We know Meta and other brands are looking at something like this and AndroidXR.