I 100% recommend them, especially if you're conscious about your posture. Some people can't get over the 1080p, personally I just stick the global font size up one level larger in the settings and use browser/text editor at 110% and find it fine. It is really, really fun to lay in your bed and watch a movie on your ceiling. Or to play games on a Steam Deck on a big screen wherever you are.

I've got a pair of both the Xreal Air and the Viture and I think I'm going to sell the XReal Air and keep the Viture. Reasons why, in order of importance:

- XReal Air give me a weird, sharp pinching pain on the side of my head after a while. It's weird because it comes out of nowhere and it is quite a sharp pain that is difficult to ignore but if you wear a thin polyester running headband underneath it completely goes away. I don't really want to wear a headband, even a thin one, just to use my AR glasses, so this is a major win for the Viture which doesn't suffer from this problem.

- Viture has a proprietary magnetic cable whereas XReal uses a USB-C cable that slots into the end of the arm. Normally, I would be all about the reusable standard but in this case I'm all about the magnetic cable, for the same reason people like the MagSafe charger on the MacBook. It's very easy to forget you're tethered with these things, move, and end up yanking the cable. With the Viture this is less of a worry because it will disconnect, but with the XReal it's going to get taut and yank either your machine and/or the glasses. There's a lot of photos of people with cracked arms on the XReal reddit and I strongly suspect this is a major contributing reason though people try and claim otherwise.

- Following on from the above, more thought seems to have been put into the design and the ecosystem with Viture in comparison to XReal. Even the Viture carrying case and packaging* are more premium than the XRreal. The nose pads are far easier to swap out and there's four heights compared to the Xreal's three. The prescription glasses attachment just magnetically snaps to the glasses rather than fiddling about like the Xreal. There's an accessory cable available to provide power to your device and allow the glasses to connect at the same time (essential for the Steam Deck which has only 1 usb-c port). There's a neckband accessory thing which I could see catching on as the main way consumers use these things. In contrast, the Xreal just have an accessory called the Beam, which doesn't really offer anything other than wireless connection to your computer (still have a wire between the glasses and the beam), 6Dof and 4 hours of battery which doesn't really add anything for me. The Beam does solve the yanking issue mentioned above because you're meant to wear it on your person.

- Viture are slightly brighter and have a really cool electrochromic film feature that essentially darkens the glasses when you're in a bright environment in order to see things better.

- The XReal screen is slightly larger than the Viture, but the Viture seems slightly sharper than the Xreal, especially when you get the myopia dials right. These dials aren't the greatest, and I think if you're short sighted you're probably best off just buying the prescription lens that snap to the frame.

- Xreal have a halo of light around the perimeter of the screen. I can ignore it but it is annoying when I see it. The Viture have no such halo, but the very top and very bottom of the screen can sometimes blur, I'm assuming due to light leakage as I'm definitely using the right nosepads as the entire screen is in view.

To me, Viture are the superior product, but the problem they have at this point is that the Xreal have first mover advantage. Viture have only recently started shipping wheras Xreal have sold over 200,000 units. A lot of people with Steam Decks also have Xreal glasses so there's a lot of momentum for them in the gaming community. There's a possibility that it might be a VHS/Betamax scenario where the better format ends up losing, but hopefully Viture will be able to gain some ground.

There are also some other companies on the market like Rokid, which are meant to be technically better than either Viture or Xreal, but the aesthetics are appalling. With the Viture and the Xreal, they look like Ray-Ban Wayfarers so you can get away with wearing them in public whereas the Rokid look like something out of a bad 90s spy movie.

I also think it's only a matter of time until Samsung and Google get in on the action and release something. I think Apple are going to be super late to the party like they were with smart speakers, presumably because they're not going to want to cannibalise Vision Pro unless they have to. I think it will end up being a HomePod/HomePod mini situation, where they reluctantly release the cheaper one and that ends up being the one people actually buy. I reckon it's probably going to be 4 maybe even 5 years before we see anything from them but I might be wrong.

I think you might even see all the major TV manufacturers try and release something because I think it's going to seriously eat into their market, to the point where I think TVs might not even exist in 20 years time. I also think cinemas might be seriously fucked.

*The packaging has a kind of "Falcon wing door" mechanism to open it that I've never really seen on anything before, it is pretty cool as far as packaging goes.