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I would say it's a delicate balance, with heavy batteries being the most annoying for heavy users (the target audience, from what I can tell), who will have pocket battery packs, or low moment-of-inertia placements, anyways.

I personally don't want any unnecessary weight on my face since I sometimes use my headsets for 8 hours at a time, for coding. For comparison, something like the nreal air [1] is only 79g!

1. https://www.nreal.ai/specs/



> I personally don't want any unnecessary weight on my face since I sometimes use my headsets for 8 hours at a time, for coding

Out of curiosity, how does that work? What's the flow, what software do you use, do you still use a keyboard to type?


I stream my desktop, with a few virtual screens, using ImmersedVR [1], but other options are available, like VirtualDesktop [2] (over local/remote network), which can be used with something like ShadowPC for full cloud. Others I know code completely in the native browser with the multi-screen interface you see in Meta commercials. Native is still a work in progress, but you can sideload android apps to put them into their own windows.

For desktop streaming, you can use your desktop keyboard/mouse, or a bluetooth keyboard/mouse connected to the headset. For native apps, you use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse connected to the headset. The headset sees/tracks the (supported) keyboard with the passthrough cameras and shows a passthrough window/overlay, where it is.

I have no doubt that virtual displays are the future, but probably not until form factors are like the nreal air [3], which I think is still too limited for resolution. Next gen, I'll probably switch over. People will probably be happy enough once PPD triples.

1. https://www.immersed.com/

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/de7ojk/using_v...

3. https://www.nreal.ai/air/


Additional weight isn't matter or even better if it's balanced well. I put weight on my back like this that is more comfortable than nothing. https://assets.st-note.com/production/uploads/images/3712775...

Quest Pro has battery on the back so it looks very well balanced. Let's see how long the battery lasts.




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