What Can the XREAL Air and Beam Do When Connected to a Windows PC?

hey folks welcome to another AR video before we get started I do want to mention the x-rail air glasses and x-rayal beam that are featured in this video were provided by xreel as part of the xreel Insiders program if you have any questions about the hardware or some of the software that I demonstrate in this video please feel free to leave a comment and if I can't answer your question I'll be able to reach out to the xreel team to get an answer for you let's jump in today we're going to check out things that you can do with the xreel air when you're connected to a Windows PC so as you can see in the display settings here I have my extra air connected right now to my x-ray beam but I have the actual beam just connected to the air nothing else so it's basically Wireless as far as the connection to the computer so we're going to connect to it as a wireless display it's very simple here we can just hit connect click on X real beam 37f which is the X real beam that I currently have and now we're connected you can either do duplicate extended or second screen only for your casting and it's pretty good as far as the visuals and the latency I will say though when I'm playing back things like YouTube videos or twitch videos sometimes there's a noticeable lag between the sound and the visuals but strangely enough when I use it for things like VLC or just other viewers on my PC to watch movies or other things it works just fine so I'm not really sure what's causing that other web browser things work great and this is a great tool to stick in my pocket and while I'm on conference calls at work the microphones and the speakers on the actual air work great I can still see the screen I can interact on the conference calls while kind of walking around the house so now I've actually connected my extra air directly to the PC via USBC I have the luxury of having a PC that this is something that's available for and what this does is with the wired connection allows you to either duplicate displays extend displays show only one or show only two uh and then the other thing that's really cool about it is if we go into the advanced display here you can see display one this is my standard uh monitor I've got Intel UHD graphics on this particular monitor right now uh with 2560 by 1600 and a 240 hertz refresh rate but if I go to display number two's properties which is the air itself it's right now connected to uh the Nvidia graphics card the discrete graphics card on my laptop and again it's showing 2560 by 1600 but the active signal mode which is what this actual display in the glasses is is 1920x1080 at 60 hertz and if we look at the refresh rate 60 hertz is the only refresh rate that's available in a recent firmware update though they added a magical new feature where if you hold the brightness up button right here on the bottom of the right arm of the glasses you'll hear a kind of click and then a second click after that second clip if we release now if we go to display to you'll see it's at 120 hertz it's double the refresh rate when you hold down the brightness up button and listen for two kind of clicky tones on the speaker and then once that second tone hits release I do want to mention when you're connected wired to the PC directly there's no smooth follow there's no body anchor none of the added features that you have with the X-ray beam uh it's just a giant screen that moves when I move my head so there can be some jerkiness if I'm moving quickly things of that nature but otherwise it's a nice wide screen and I do prefer the 120 hertz refresh rate and the wired connection particularly when I'm doing things like YouTube consumption or video editing the other thing I want to mention is when you're connected to Windows right now the air does only display a single display whether that's using it wired directly to the PC or using the actual beam you can't get multiple displays you can't pin the displays in multiple places or things of that nature it's just a single display however something new that's kind of experimental right now is nebula for Windows this is currently available only in closed beta but the ability to have one 16x9 floating screen in front of you as a virtual screen in addition to your PC screen the ability to have two 16x9 floating screens the ability to have three 16x9 virtual screens one giant 21 by nine virtual screen or one 32 by 9 virtual screen and these will be at a distance of about three and a half meters from you when it's simulated and all you do is click on start AR desktop and it'll come up now when I use this on my particular computer with the setup that I have it's not super smooth right now it is still in beta though they've had two beta clients and again this is a closed beta so it's not something that's currently accessible that you can just download and use but it's really cool to see the progress and to be able to use these virtual screens in addition to your regular screen can definitely help with building out a virtual workspace for example using their AR desktop again this is nebula for Windows and it's coming soon you can however request to join the beta by joining the xreel Discord which I'll have a link to in the description of this video and one other cool feature is the ability to engage 3D mode with the glasses it's not anaglyph 3D like those glasses that are pictured above me it's actually stereo 3D using either half or full side-by-side videos and if you hold down the brightness up button again on the right arm of the glasses until you hear the tone once instead of twice and release that engages 3D mode and now I've got kind of a stereo picture but it's not a stereo picture because I'm not looking at a stereo picture of my monitor if that makes sense but it works really well for viewing movies you need to make sure that you have either movies or games at a resolution that's viewable that takes up the most real estate kind of centers the screen so there's a little bit of resolution that's cut off on the sides if you don't get it exactly dialed into the resolution of the glasses again the resolution of glasses you've got 1920 by 1080 on each eye so you want to have 1920 times two which I believe is 38 40 by 1080 as your stereo resolution or again 19 20 by 1080 per eye so per image you can find content that's playable on YouTube in Stereo 3D you can download movies that are at the correct resolution and you can manipulate games to play in 3D in that manner as well and it works pretty well so again it was a feature that wasn't present when the extra error came out that's been added in a later firmware but I'm excited that it's available and I can consume 3D content as well as 2D content from my PC so that's going to do it for today's video I hope you enjoyed this look at things you can do with the X real air on Windows I am going to do a part two of this because there's a lot of third-party applications that have been in development as well that really intrigued me that kind of excite me that enable the extra air to do even more on windows so there will be another video coming up sometime in the next month or so that highlights some of those third-party applications until next time get out there and enjoy some AR for yourself and thanks for watching bye bye now

Channel: Erik Hartley

Views: 7,667

Keywords: XREAL, AR, Augmented Reality, Spatial Display, Spatial Computing, XREAL Air, XREAL Light, XREAL Beam, XREAL Insiders, #XREALInsiders, #XREALInsider

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Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2023