Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful
Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful
忘掉 Meta Ray-Ban 吧。这些看起来呆头呆脑的虚拟显示眼镜其实更有用
“URGENT: Immediate Action Required” blasts into my eyeballs as I scroll through the impossibly giant email inbox looming directly in front of my face. 当我翻阅眼前那巨大得不可思议的电子邮件收件箱时，“紧急：需要立即采取行动”的字样猛地撞入我的眼帘。
I’m reclined way back in a chair, wearing a pair of Xreal smart glasses. Tethered to my laptop via a USB-C cord, these glasses mirror the laptop screen and project it into a virtual display. The virtual screen is gigantic, equivalent to a 170-inch TV that feels about a foot away from my nose. I’m the only one who can see it, and so I’ve got this massive display all to myself. 我靠在椅子上，戴着一副 Xreal 智能眼镜。通过 USB-C 线连接到笔记本电脑，这些眼镜将笔记本屏幕镜像并投射成一个虚拟显示屏。这个虚拟屏幕巨大无比，相当于一个离我鼻尖约一英尺远的 170 英寸电视。只有我一个人能看到它，所以我独享了这个巨大的显示屏。
With this technological marvel, I conjure the most riveting view imaginable: five workplace training modules about business principles and cybersecurity that my boss has repeatedly reminded me are very overdue. The text on the screen is blurry, but I complete them all within my virtual display. It takes several hours. By the time I’m done, the glasses have overheated, my forehead is sweaty, and I’m still not sure I can actually recognize a phishing email. 借助这一科技奇迹，我调出了想象中最引人入胜的画面：五个关于商业原则和网络安全的职场培训模块，老板已经多次提醒我这些任务严重逾期了。屏幕上的文字有些模糊，但我还是在虚拟显示屏中完成了它们。这花了好几个小时。当我完成时，眼镜已经过热，我的额头满是汗水，而且我仍然不确定自己是否真的能识别出钓鱼邮件。
Virtual display glasses are a much more niche category of mixed-reality smart glasses than the camera-equipped, AI-powered frames that have dominated the product market—namely, Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses. Made by companies like Xreal, Viture, and Rokid, these glasses aim to bring a screen directly to your face. Like a portable monitor, plug the USB-C cable into the arm of the glasses, then stick the other end into the port of just about any laptop, phone, tablet, or handheld gaming console. Slap ’em on, and that screen mirrors in a holographic VR-style projection, right in your center of vision. 虚拟显示眼镜是混合现实智能眼镜中一个比配备摄像头、由人工智能驱动的框架（即 Meta 的 Ray-Ban 眼镜）更为小众的类别，后者目前主导了产品市场。这些由 Xreal、Viture 和 Rokid 等公司制造的眼镜旨在将屏幕直接带到你的眼前。就像便携式显示器一样，将 USB-C 线插入眼镜镜腿，然后将另一端插入几乎任何笔记本电脑、手机、平板电脑或掌上游戏机的接口。戴上它，屏幕就会以全息 VR 风格的投影镜像出来，正好位于你的视野中心。
Wearing them, you can chill out in an airplane seat, lie prone, even dangle upside-down if you like, and the big screen stays right there with you. (No tech neck!) Yup, you’re basically cosplaying the lazy humans in Wall-E. Hooray. 戴着它们，你可以坐在飞机座椅上放松，平躺，甚至如果你愿意的话倒挂着，大屏幕都会一直伴随着你。（不会有“科技颈”！）没错，你基本上就是在扮演《机器人总动员》(Wall-E) 里那些懒惰的人类。万岁。
Virtual display glasses don’t get the heat of privacy issues that Meta’s “pervert glasses” do. No cameras, no recording—just sweet, sweet content consumption beamed out an inch from your eye holes. If you’re feeling generous, the Xreal glasses could even be lauded for their privacy protections, at least for the user. Got sensitive documents or embarrassing videos you’re trying to watch on a plane? A virtual display is one only the wearer can see. (The Xreal glasses also have speakers in the frames that do leak sound, so be careful with your audible content consumption.) 虚拟显示眼镜不会像 Meta 的“变态眼镜”那样受到隐私问题的抨击。没有摄像头，没有录音——只有在你眼孔前一英寸处投射出的美妙内容消费。如果你大方一点，Xreal 眼镜甚至可以因其隐私保护而受到称赞，至少对用户而言是这样。在飞机上有敏感文件或尴尬视频想看？虚拟显示屏只有佩戴者自己能看到。（Xreal 眼镜的镜框里也有扬声器，确实会漏音，所以要注意你的音频内容消费。）
Display-only glasses make good on at least one promise made by other wearable mixed-reality devices. When Apple launched its flawed Vision Pro headset, one of its primary features was spatial computing that let you work and watch entertainment in a virtual workspace. But the device was too heavy and bulky to wear for long. Xreal’s specs are much simpler and less elegant but do accomplish most of that goal in a much lighter package. (We’ve also had a pretty great experience with Sightful’s Spacetop spatial computing interface, also powered by Xreal glasses.) 纯显示眼镜至少兑现了其他可穿戴混合现实设备所做出的一个承诺。当苹果推出其有缺陷的 Vision Pro 头显时，其主要功能之一是空间计算，让你可以在虚拟工作空间中工作和观看娱乐内容。但该设备太重、太笨重，无法长时间佩戴。Xreal 的眼镜要简单得多，虽然没那么优雅，但确实以轻得多的包装实现了大部分目标。（我们对 Sightful 的 Spacetop 空间计算界面也有过非常棒的体验，它同样由 Xreal 眼镜驱动。）
“The fundamental thing these glasses do well is that they just work,” says Anshel Sag, a principal analyst at the industry advisory firm Moor Insights and Strategies. Sag says he wears these kinds of glasses regularly on flights. “You plug them in, and you have faith that you’re going to get a video signal on those glasses that mostly matches what’s on the screen of the device they’re plugged into.” “这些眼镜做得好的根本在于它们确实好用，”行业咨询公司 Moor Insights and Strategies 的首席分析师 Anshel Sag 说道。Sag 说他经常在飞行中佩戴这类眼镜。“你插上它们，你就有信心在眼镜上获得视频信号，而且它基本与所连接设备的屏幕内容一致。”
I’ve been swapping between two of the glasses. First, Xreal’s $849 ROG Xreal R1, available to preorder and expected to ship in September. It displays that 171-inch virtual screen in a 57-degree field of view, which you can anchor in place or have the screen stay dead center in your vision as you turn your head different directions. 我一直在两款眼镜之间切换使用。首先是 Xreal 售价 849 美元的 ROG Xreal R1，目前可预订，预计 9 月发货。它在 57 度的视野中显示那个 171 英寸的虚拟屏幕，你可以将其固定在某个位置，或者当你转动头部时让屏幕始终保持在视野的正中央。
I’ve also used the much cheaper, much lighter Xreal xbx A01+, which the company launched in May and started shipping in July. It costs $299 but has a smaller screen with a 50-degree field of view. It has less of a heat issue but also lower screen quality. Crucially, you can’t anchor the screen, which can make watching stuff disorienting when the screen moves every time your head does. 我还使用了更便宜、更轻便的 Xreal xbx A01+，该公司于 5 月发布并于 7 月开始发货。它售价 299 美元，但屏幕较小，视野为 50 度。它的发热问题较少，但屏幕质量也较低。关键的是，你无法固定屏幕，这会导致每次你转头时屏幕都会移动，从而让人感到迷失方向。
Xreal’s primary selling point for these glasses is gaming or watching videos. The glasses don’t use batteries and instead sip power from your plugged-in device. I’ve connected both frames to my Steam Deck and blasted through seas of demons in Diablo IV on a giant virtual screen. I tried watching the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings films, but I had plugged the device into my phone, which died halfway through the first movie. I’ve also plugged the glasses into my laptop for regular browsing, lurking on social media, and being a nuisance in my workplace Slack. Xreal 对这些眼镜的主要卖点是游戏或观看视频。眼镜不使用电池，而是从你连接的设备中汲取电力。我将两款眼镜都连接到了我的 Steam Deck 上，并在巨大的虚拟屏幕上横扫《暗黑破坏神 IV》中的恶魔之海。我试着观看《指环王》加长版电影，但我把设备插在了手机上，结果手机在第一部电影放映到一半时就没电了。我还把眼镜插在笔记本电脑上进行日常浏览、潜水社交媒体，以及在工作 Slack 中捣乱。
The glasses don’t work with everything. I tried connecting them to my PlayStation 5, which required a much longer cord and more patience than I can muster in return for a not-so-great display across my vision. 这些眼镜并非兼容所有设备。我试着将它们连接到我的 PlayStation 5，这需要更长的线缆和比我所能提供的更多的耐心，而换来的却是在视野中并不怎么样的显示效果。
The very stern faces of actors portraying harassment victims in my workplace training videos have an almost 3D-ified quality, their pouting chins jutting out past the blocks of text. The animations in this very good WIRED story hit way harder than they did on my lil’ laptop screen. Unfortunately, the smaller text in the article was almost too blurry to read. 我职场培训视频中扮演骚扰受害者的演员们那严肃的面孔有一种近乎 3D 的质感，他们撅起的下巴突出在文字块之外。这篇优秀的 WIRED 文章中的动画效果比在我那小小的笔记本屏幕上看起来震撼得多。不幸的是，文章中较小的文字几乎模糊到无法阅读。
Virtual displays still don’t have the resolution and fidelity that we’re used to on our laptops and smartphones. They tend to be fuzzy, and I almost feel like it’s a simulation of what it would be like to need a glasses prescription. After staring at that virtual screen for hours, I pop it off, and it feels like I’ve had my eyes crossed for too long and they’re ready to stay that way. 虚拟显示屏仍然没有我们习惯的笔记本电脑和智能手机那样的分辨率和保真度。它们往往很模糊，我甚至觉得这就像是在模拟需要配戴眼镜的感觉。盯着那个虚拟屏幕几个小时后，我把它摘下来，感觉就像是斗鸡眼太久了，眼睛都快定型了。
The glasses also aren’t exactly inconspicuous enough for me to feel comfortable walking around in them. You can pop off the projection lenses and wear them like regular glasses, but you probably won’t, because they loo 这些眼镜也不够低调，让我无法自在地戴着它们四处走动。你可以拆下投影镜片，像普通眼镜一样佩戴，但你可能不会这么做，因为它们看起……