This guy makes great romhacks!

I think the glasses are quite solid, but I haven’t dropped them yet 🙂

I never buy additional warranties.

how do you change its settings, like the aspect ratio, the dimming or the distance?

They have an OSD like in a regular monitor. You press the mode switch button twice to bring it and navigate using the ± brigness buttons. For dimming you hold the brightness rocker to start adjusting the dimming. For everything else there is an OSD menu like in a regular monitor. You bring it by double pressing the switch button and navigate with the brightness buttons.

how does it know where is forward in anchor mode? if you are sitting in a vehicle that is turning, can you keep it using as if nothing has happened?

It’s only 3 DoF without the eye add-on, so when you move, the monitor moves with you.

how do you do chores with it? I mean, what do you connect it to, and where do you place it so that it’s not in the way?

I just connect it to my Retroid Pocket Flip and put it into my pocket. Then I just enable side mode in the glasses, so it displays the image in the corner. And use my 8BitDo to navigate in the device.

what do you do to not get tangled in the cable, and to not get stuck on something?

The default cable is just very short :) It’s a distance from the glasses to my pocket with about extra 15-20 cm.

But it’s not VR. It’s basically an OLED monitor in front of my eyes. I can’t say it’s healthy, but I wouldn’t say it’s that bad.

Sorry, never owned it.

But if you are looking at a GNU/Linux device, I’d suggest to pick something supported by community distributions, such as Knulli or Rocknix.

I think it’s a panel from some phone that is no longer manufactured. But can confirm, it’s gorgeous (they use the same screen on RP Flip 2).

Same! Never posted or commented much on Reddit before, but now I post small reviews on stuff I own and announce libraries I make for Bevy. It’s not much, but it’s something :)

Yes!

Unfortunately, audio through the 3.5mm jack only works if you power on the console with headphones already plugged in.

Also, the setup is opinionated. For example, it stores save games alongside ROMs, while I use the default emulation directories on my PC. This makes syncing saves more difficult and it’s not something you can disable in the emulator setting, they hardcode these directories via scrips.

Lastly, the idle battery life is significantly worse, which matters to me since I prefer to put the device to sleep.

Thanks! Yes, I also looking at the Xreal One (Pro) right now.

Interesting - especially the part about the hair 😅

Does the screen look good? It’s hard to tell from video reviews - it looks like a projector screen. How does the quality compare to a real display?

Love it! I planning to post a text-based review after more use.

Yes 🙂

Cool, I didn’t know that SMW central has its own patcher. I used this one: https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

I also tried with the fingerprint sensor enabled, but managed to reproduce the issue :(

Yes :)

That’s strange - they said they finished shipping. Maybe try reaching out to them.

Ah, you have the antenna issue 😢

I read that it’s possible to fix with a hardware modification, but it’s very difficult.

I find the Pro1 X to be too large for my hands; a phone around 4.5–5" would be ideal.

That’s unfortunate - there aren’t many modern alternatives. Even the F(x)tec is a bit outdated by today’s standards.

What keyboards have you tried?

I’m aware of musl/Linux, uClibc/Linux and other variants - I just wanted to distinguish them from Android since they all use the Linux kernel 🙂

GNU/Linux is just the most common.

I’m guessing cases for this are hard to come by?

Never looked for a case. But it’s a rare beast, I don’t think there is any case for it in the wild 😅

And what about lint/dust/sand

I think it closes quite firmly. So dust doesn’t get inside.