I am trying to understand the limits in VR capability of the Air 2 Pro.
It doesn’t seem to have the inside-out cameras, but to support any of the functionality that is supposed to be available with the Beam (arriving late…), I’d guess you’d have to include
- gyro(s) for the position of the glasses vs. Earth center of gravity
- accelerometer(s) to gauge the speed of the head spinning, but also perhaps to dampen external motion e.g. on trains
- magnetic compass, as additional helper to calibrate the gyro(s) and do some sensor fusion
in the headset.
That’s pretty much what my LeEco Le Max2 has and partially augments with its LeVR headset (better gyros), which isn’t truly great for VR, because that doesn’t integrate the camera (actually covers it up!), but if you’re not too sensitive to VR sickness, it’s actually better than not having VR at all.
You wouldn’t want to walk around with it, but for stuff like a flight or car sim as well as surround 360° video, it’s quite ok.
Your SDK seems to have been aimed at the Nreal Light, so whatever clues it provides for sensors and capabilities won’t be much help for the Airs, I guess: I haven’t really tried to dig in and read the code yet, because I’m not sure I’ll want to keep the Air 2 Pro, if it is really offering nothing but a portable screen, without much “augmentation” or “mixed reality” (it doesn’t help that desktop work, which requires sharpness across 100% of the screen real-estate, fails because of IPD mismatch the outside edges are always blurry to one eye).
At the moment the only use case left for the Air 2 Pro would be watching movies, including in 3D (but those are becoming rarer) in trains or planes with better privacy than a laptop/tablet screen. And that’s a little too little for the price of a tablet.
Especially when my Lenovo Mirage Solo was half that price.
Actually there I am still planning to test if I my Asus convertible laptop allows me to use the screen and touchpad with the schreen folded down (“reverse tablet” mode might not be supported). If the IPD issue could be overcome, that would make a difference!