Comment on Steam Deck Brick Mod: No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port.

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Recommendations?

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Previously, I’d have recommended Xreal Air but the company is allergic to open-source and doesn’t have a great track record of supporting their own software. At the moment, Viture seems a better bet, from those that I’m aware of. For screen replacement, the high pixels-per-degree of birdbath optics, like both use, are extremely advantageous and cause much less eye strain. And that’s while being far cheaper than waveguides or pancake optics.

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    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A slight modification as I have new information: If you can justify it, the Xreal One might be worthwhile as they have added an ASIC to do away when the buggy software and dongle nonsense. Still not super open-source friendly (they’re not actively hostile either) but that seems to solve my biggest issue with the experience. They seem to have better quality optics as well.

        I may end up getting a pair of those to replace my Nreal Airs that are held together with tape and CA glue (I’m unfortunately hard on my electronics).

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No problem! My “dream” HMD would be birdbath optics with ~2k displays for each eye and probably some simple hardware upscaling. The glasses being “dumb” is a real perk. Doubling the pixels/° would make the experience that much better.

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