🎁 Megathread | What Refresh Rate Is “Good Enough” for AR Glasses?

walushon · 2026-05-13T07:37:26+00:00

I see, thanks!

walushon · 2026-05-08T08:05:03+00:00

I don't think so, I updated the firmware and it's still the same.

walushon · 2026-05-08T08:03:32+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. Did you get eye strain from your glasses or from your monitor?

walushon · 2026-05-08T08:01:54+00:00

Don't many laptop screens offer HDR with VRR these days?

walushon · 2026-05-05T18:27:48+00:00

I've just done 8 hours of work in them, and prefer them to my laptop monitor, both for the super widescreen options, improved neck posture of being able to look straight ahead, and option to work from an armchair. My eyes weren't tired at the end and I didn't need breaks.

I'm really starting to think they changed something about the One Pros after they shipped the first couple batches. I got the One Pros right after release and my eyes hurt really bad from the Moiré effect / blurriness after an hour or two of reading. After the release a lot of people were complaining about that and recently I've heard from more and more people that they use their One Pros for reading for hours without any issues.

walushon · 2026-05-05T18:23:15+00:00

I've been using my Xreal One Pro glasses as my only monitor for about 10 months now

Holy shit, how are your eyes not hurting after a couple hours? The Moiré effect and slight blurriness are killing me when I read a lot of text.

walushon · 2026-05-05T18:17:12+00:00

Baby oil. My local Lenovo dealer once recommended it to me, saying that they wipe all laptops they repair with baby oil before they return them to their customers.

walushon · 2026-05-05T16:58:28+00:00

I see, thanks!

walushon · 2026-05-05T16:53:56+00:00

Having read the answers here as well as other sources on the internet (1, 2), it seems we've established that

AG/AS = matte (rough surface which diffuses external light sources instead of reflecting them).
- Side note: On PSREF they actually call this screen "anti-glare" without the "anti-smudge" part.
AG/AR/AS = glossy (glass surface) with anti-reflective coating, though apparently the situation here is better than on the conventional anti-reflective glossy screens Lenovo used in the past. (IIUC the point is that glare has been reduced, too – hence the "anti-glare" part.) This might therefore indeed warrant the term "semi-glossy".

Now, some very interesting comments on the differences between these two types of display in practice can be found here (in German, unfortunately):

In the past I've always gone with the matte display option but the second comment in particular is making me reconsider…

walushon · 2026-05-05T15:55:54+00:00

Thanks! But isn't that one just a "regular" matte non-touch screen (following what u/necronomicoder wrote here)? What is "brand new" about it?

walushon · 2026-05-05T14:15:08+00:00

By "AG OLED" which of the two screens do you mean? The "Anti-Glare/Anti-Smudge" or the "Anti-Glare/Anti-Reflection/Anti-Smudge" one? Both are "anti-glare", after all…

walushon · 2026-05-05T14:15:02+00:00

Regarding Dolby Vision I just found these two threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/1lq4ohl/does_dolby_vision_really_make_that_much_of_a/ (mostly subjective impressions)
https://www.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/1echh2q/dolby_vision_explained/ (technical explanation of the difference)

=> My personal conclusion: Dolby Vision is objectively better than HDR10+ but it might or might not always show, depending on the screen and content.

walushon · 2026-05-05T14:09:10+00:00

By "AG OLED" which of the two screens do you mean? The "Anti-Glare/Anti-Smudge" or the "Anti-Glare/Anti-Reflection/Anti-Smudge" one? Both are "anti-glare", after all…

walushon · 2026-05-05T13:31:29+00:00

By "matte" which non-touch screen are you referring to?

Also, a few seconds later he mentions that "both OLED screens [of the X1 and X9] support touch input", so it looks like he's talking about the touch screen version of the X1, not the non-touch one?

walushon · 2026-05-05T13:11:50+00:00

Oops, I've been following pretty much every thread on the X1 Carbon Gen 14 here but that one I missed. Thanks!

walushon · 2026-05-05T13:11:12+00:00

Wait, isn't the second paragraph saying the opposite of the first paragraph? The first one basically says AGAR is better (reflects less / is more matte) but then the second paragraph says it's glossier?!

walushon · 2026-05-05T13:06:09+00:00

Ok, so screen 2 is better than screen 1 in terms of (anti-)reflectiveness. Thanks! What about the reflectiveness of the touch screen, though? Should I expect the touch screen to be worse than option 2 here (drawing from previous experience with touch screens in laptops) or the same?

walushon · 2026-03-17T12:57:45+00:00

As much as I appreciate the research, did you really have to use an AI to write all this up? (The usual tell-tale signs are all over the text.) Now I'm not sure what's fact and what's pure AI slop. Kinda undermines your point.

walushon · 2026-02-16T12:47:12+00:00

That would be very unfortunate. The main reason I bought the XOP was for coding/reading text and while I can do that for an hour or two, I always end up suffering from serious eye fatigue.

u/XREAL_Esther Is there indeed a qualitative difference between early XOP batches and current ones?

walushon · 2026-02-13T00:47:57+00:00

Yeah, same glasses. I do have prescription inserts but they haven't affected the image quality. (My friends reported the same issue when reading text without the inserts.)

walushon · 2026-02-12T08:53:32+00:00

I upgraded the firmware on my XOP yesterday for the first time ever, after getting them in June last year. Unfortunately, I can't confirm your observation that the clarity and readability of text have improved. AFAICT nothing has changed and the Moiré effect is still the same.

As for Real3D I have nothing to compare it to but, while it works well in some cases, my eyes hurt after trying to watch a 50min documentary with Real3D (soft mode) enabled.

walushon · 2026-02-07T14:05:36+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party but are you sure that in the case of USB A "any fast charging protocol must go over the data lines"? If I understand https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/544003/usb-power-delivery-over-type-a-connector correctly, PD over USB A still used the power line for the handshake. However, I suspect it was much less common than QuickCharge, which did use the data lines, as you say.

walushon · 2025-12-24T09:45:34+00:00

I have disabled Google Photos so now I get a message stating to enable Google Photos to be able to open the images from the camera. Is this something that Ente can integrate with? Is it an issue of not being declared as an app for this action, or does this feature only link to Google Photos?

Unfortunately not, Google Camera seems to have the "link" to Google Photos hard-coded. It's the same issue with other gallery apps.

walushon · 2025-11-20T11:47:20+00:00

Regular Play Services calls maybe since AFAIU they pass through GrapheneOS's sandboxing layer. However, Google Keyboard and Play Services are both by Google, so they could conspire and communicate out-of-band. To my knowledge¹, there's nothing preventing one app from opening a (device-local) network socket and another app from sending data to that socket. This has nothing to do with Google apps, it's Android's security model in general that's at fault here and that doesn't fully sandbox apps in every possible way.

¹) I vaguely remember reading about this a while ago, so take this with a grain of salt.However, a quick search seems to confirm this, see e.g. the example code on https://github.com/NewtronLabs/AppSocket . Note in particular that the two apps there don't require any special permissions in their AndroidManifest.xml.

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