Xreal Air 2 - is it any different?!

hello everyone about a year ago I reviewed xreal airs very first generation the one that uh came to us and uh I was pretty blown away I really liked it I enjoyed it and I use it as my pretty much daily device uh for my gaming especially on my steam deck I highly recommend it to all of my friends as a must have device if you own a steam deck to be honest because in my opinion it is um however recently there's been a development right here and that's not the same although they might look like I have xreal air 2 as you can see they look pretty much identical I I bet you're not going to be able even really to tell the difference if you see them you know just even side by side you cannot really tell the difference but the difference is huge and I would like to discuss that with you right now let's Dive In now honestly this is a good news doesn't matter if you're interested in a second generation or the first one because even if you're only interested in first generation first of all it's still amazing second of all it's now cheaper uh I'm not going to really actually comment on the price because it depends on the sales like I know they have sales on a Black Friday if you're able to still get that and I'm pretty sure around the Christmas there will be more sales so shop around but it's cheaper now uh it used to be $3.99 now it's cheaper at least like $50 cheaper or so and it is also available on Amazon so shop around for a good deal and I'm pretty sure you can save quite a bit of money in this amazing device however today I mostly want to concentrate on what is the difference why is this worth now $3.99 so essentially you know $50 or so dollars more than first generation what is the difference and who is it targeted to and although when I show it to you like this you probably cannot Spot the Difference you don't even probably know which one is the second generation which one is the first and I can show it you all day long and I doubt you will be able to tell however me holding them just like this I know in which hand I'm holding the second generation or which one I hold in the first one and the answer is simple how can I do it is the weight so this is the second uh generation and I can feel the difference no it's not half the weight but it's much lighter I can feel the difference and your face and your nose will definitely say thank you to you because it actually feels lighter it's only on Paper 20 G I believe but it does make a difference I know it doesn't sound like it I I was very skeptical myself but when I put them on I'm like yeah I can feel the difference it's a it's a good difference it definitely makes a differentiation point between the previous one the next one is uh not really targeted for me because I practically always use it only with the headphones however you know different situations different use cases this one has now improved sound right on top there is an extra um sound speaker and in addition uh to already existing ones on the bottom so the first generation only had those on the bottom and honestly the sound quality is pretty good but this one's just taking it a notch better and it's a little bit improved base a little bit better you know deeper tone so it's pretty nice now also on paper the screen itself improved it's a slightly uh next generation of actual L OLED panels uh it it is a little bit brighter at the maximum so it's 500 knit versus previous generation 4 4500 knit and it will be matter for the people who intend to use it in a very bright scenarios like in a park you know if you like somewhere spending a lot of time outside and that's where where you actually consume your media or you G play your games you know if it's somewhere in a very bright condition or you have a very large windows in your home and you don't really have a lot of cartons I don't know uh then that would actually matter so it's it's pretty good visible change it's pretty good uh upgrade in brightness so you will feel this difference for sure as well now in addition to all that there's also a air2 pro model being released along with side with this with only one difference is it has for this this looks like a sunglasses right so and this front glass on a pro version is electrochromatic uh basically glass that you can controll dimming it has three settings it has 0% it has 35% and it has 100% so basically it's sort of like electric version of that blackout uh plastic cover it's just you don't have to carry the blackout cover and it sort of like serves the same exact purpose just obviously it's not going to block out intire light it's still some going to go through but it's still going to look like you know your normal glasses you're still going to look normal and you can adjust a little bit you know if you want to 35% or you want to go all the way to 100 you have that ability that cost another extra $50 compared to uh normal air 2s for me personally um I did not pick that option I'm not sure it's just worth for me I I don't know usually I'm indoors and this is very bright people do not realize how bright it gets and honestly for me the bigger concern even the lower uh brightness is more important because when I play at night or when I consume some media like you know Netflix YouTube I wanted to be not very bright when my wife's asleep you know I don't want also a lot of light in my eyes like blasting me so I usually actually actually at night I watch it in the lowest brightness so the highest brightness is not necessarily a biggest selling point to me but it's nice to have right I mean you on an airplane it's pretty bright you're flying during the day that's kind of important all right next thing is not a lot of people talk about it but this is complete GameChanger for me personally um I'm a glass wearer all the time I have four eyes as you can see so for me ability to wear something on my face practically all day long is insanely important and the huge difference between the first generation and second generation is the nose pads the nose pads on the second generation are extremely improved they are so much better they actually they soft they have like like space inside to kind of like bounce a little bit while the first generation although they made out of soft material but they're pretty flat so as soon as they hit your nose rid they pretty much pushing into it so in addition to this now add a little bit of extra weight which 20 G again doesn't sound like much but believe me you can tell the difference and with first generation glasses if I wear it for extended period of time an hourish or anything more than that which is not that common at all for me because I really like them they starting to slide over from my uh nose and they starting to kind of hurt a little bit you know around the nose um it's it's just not that comfortable it's not extremely comfortable with this ones the first thing I I noticed as soon as I wore them I was like wo that feels like cloud on my nose it felt amazing and I really liked it and uh it's awesome it's awesome I play balers gate uh Tre for like hours hours uh at the time and uh this is my go-to device now let's talk about other maybe not so important things but I think everything matters you know you pay for you know a good device you pay a good amount of money you expect something decent all around the packaging right so there's the packaging this is the first generation this is the second and honestly I think they took it up a notch so the first one I say I was very impressed this is a great quality it feels very luxurious uh and it it's just nice I mean there's no question about it however the second generation it just straight up feels like luxurious there's no other way to say it this is a very hard shell but it's wrapped in some like very nice sort of like a fake leather I don't think it's a real one which is is good by me but uh it feels very good and inside there's sort of like canara wrapped all around and it it feels very good and it's a very hard shell so if you put your glasses inside you can just toss them in your backpack in your purse whatever you want to carry they will not get damaged very very good case come with it with both pro model base model doesn't matter so I I'm really impressed with this I mean this company is doing really good things with packaging I'm I'm really impressed with that now let's talk about something uh else that also improved I mean keep saying like also this also that that they improved a lot so this is the first generation cover for the glasses as you can see there's there's not much to it you know it's just a cover you put on top of those glasses if you're in a situation where you want to black out the light entirely like you don't care about your surroundings you just want to immerse into whatever you're doing and just forget about everything else this is it this is what you do you just clap them on and that's it they were a little bit questionable um first of all there's not a lot to grab on to as you can see it's very very slim so you basically force it on and they stay by this side pieces of plastic they just like jam in so it's fine it does the job I practically never use them because like I I mentioned you before I feel like it's pretty much too bright I I I don't have a need to make it to block out the everywhere else and make it even Bri however what they did with the second version is kind of cool and I like it a lot so this is the second version first of all they look a little bit more like an actual sunglasses as you can see they added elements that looks not just flat like in the first version but they actually made it look like a sunglasses I get it probably most people don't care it's like such a Nuance detail who cares that's true sure but look look at this on the bottom part this cover designed to block out a lot of light from the bottom so it's actually works when you put this on you're not only blocking direct light everywhere like in front of you but also from underneath because your glass you always have space under your glasses like even my normal glass as you can see I can always there's light coming under it's normal that's how was they designed to but with this when you put them on it blocks everything obviously there's a little bit tiny bit of a space on the sides but this improves like the immers the blockout but one more level for sure so again great Step Up amazing last but not least Improvement is their glass inserts so they actually this is a second generation they quite a bit smaller they way more delicate if you will which which I like and I think this design is really um improved it's just it looks very like defined also great news for constant glass wearer like me the previous design that's what I did with mine the previous design can be also inserted in the new one the is they fully compatible backwards compartible so by the way my lenses I just use them from my old glasses made little holes to attach to actual no space and that's it I didn't even do it properly which now xra have bunch of companies actually partner with them so you can just have your prescription sent to them and they will insert those lenses in a special insert it made everything for you and it would look the way it should not like mine but I I don't know I just didn't care I had extra glasses that I never used so I decided why not just me use them and pay nothing because nothing is always better than something so I I did that and to wrap up right now this is what they achieved Al together it's a better video quality by the way very important about video quality I was one of those people who complain a little bit quite a lot actually uh about Reds red colors in the first generation I'm not sure what was causing it maybe it was a software maybe it was hard I don't know but the saturation over red colors was a little little bit too intense so if you play some game where red were like dominant color like I don't know Diablo or maybe even balers gate it were a little bit too much in your face the red was just too prominent compared to other colors and it was kind of distracting again I'm not sure I'm not going to try to pretend that I understand why was that was happening but it's not happening anymore the color like saturations all the like properties I absolutely spot on it's like you watching it on Amazing quality OLED screen with extremely deep blacks and with very colorful uh saturation of every other color so it's very bright it could be fairly dim at night if you want to and uh it's just amazing to summarize they improved every single little bit of those glasses without making pretty much any design changes at all but here's my my point to this why improve something that's pretty much perfect I see no point I can wear this in a public space and nobody nobody will give me a second look well at least not because of the glasses so I think they look great I'm comfortable wearing them at home now they're very convenient to use for much longer periods of time with a proper colors with very good saturations of red and everything um they feel amazing I like that so big thanks to team at xreal please keep doing exactly what you're doing uh I also have another video coming up on uh beam which is a device that's sort of like a brain for this glasses which I have some big news for you on this coming up as well they not been just sleeping on that devide they actually working very hard and there's a big news coming up so stay tuned and I will see you soon thanks a lot [Music] bye-bye

Channel: Dealer Of Happiness

Views: 4,444

Keywords: AR Glasses, Xreal Air, Rokid Max

Id: NcCkk4UUfIc

Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 29 2023