RayNeo is among the main gamers within the AR glasses area. The model belongs to the TCL household and its Air 2s glasses we’re in the present day are an iterative replace over the RayNeo Air 2 with a lot of the identical base specs.
Earlier than we begin we must always in all probability clear up some terminology right here and clarify what the RayNeo Air 2s glasses truly do. You may discover them being marketed as XR glasses, which stands for Prolonged Actuality and is definitely an umbrella time period that encompasses all VR (Digital Actuality), AR (Augmented Actuality) and MR (Combined Actuality) merchandise. At their core, the RayNeo Air 2s are kind of a conveyable, wearable show. There isn’t a precise computing on board, however there are some sensors, together with accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and proximity sensor.
The RayNeo Air 2s has a complete set of latest non-compulsory equipment, together with the Pocket TV, which we even have in our evaluate package. It’s truly a full-fledged Google TV companion system that brings much-needed smarts to the RayNeo Air 2s. We will likely be going over the Pocket TV as properly.
As talked about, the RayNeo Air 2s and RayNeo Air 2 are very comparable gadgets. Each appear to nonetheless be promoting from the official retailer concurrently. Characteristic-wise, the 2 are similar and the RayNeo Air 2 glasses are even a bit lighter at 76 grams. Nevertheless the S model brings a brand new design, particularly a extra snug weight steadiness, serving to with extended sporting. The brand new weight distribution is 46.7% to 53.3%. The clamping power of the arms has been diminished by 15% for enhanced consolation as properly.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses are available in a wealthy retail bundle. They ship in a pretty big field that’s thick and properly protecting. Past the glasses, the bundle additionally accommodates a pleasant thick USB Kind-C to Kind-C cable, angled on one finish for a extra handy operation.
RayNeo additionally supplies a carrying case for the glasses. It’s high-quality and really sturdy, with a zipper and smooth velvet on the within. There may be sufficient area within the field for the glasses and the USB cable, which covers the fundamentals required to run the glasses.
Additionally within the field, we discovered a further nostril pad, insert templates for prescription lenses and a microfiber cleansing fabric.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses have this Ray-ban-reminiscent design, which is definately a very good factor. Nevertheless, the entrance semi-transparent darkened shade shouldn’t be detachable, however since we by no means discovered a scenario the place we might moderately have extra transparency it is not a serious omission.
The glasses weigh 78 grams, which isn’t the lightest for XR glasses however is much from heavy. As talked about, one of many main upgrades to the Air 2s is the improved 46.7% to 53.3% weight distribution. In observe, we comfortably wore the glasses for a few hours at a time, sufficient to observe a film. The principle discomfort we felt was to the nostril bridge, which is comprehensible. Nonetheless, the practically good half-and-half weight distribution helps loads, and we now have to say that the RayNeo Air 2s are a number of the most snug XR glasses we now have examined. The diminished clamping power of the arms helps as properly.
The 175 x 154 x 47 mm dimensions of the glasses are cheap. Positive, you will by no means fairly look or really feel such as you simply have common glasses on, even chunky ones, however we nonetheless suppose TCL did an ideal job conserving issues as slim and compact as present tech permits.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses provide loads of changes. You’ll be able to modify the place of the nostril pad by pulling it out or pushing it in. There are three positions obtainable. You too can swap the default nostril pad, which is marked as a “medium,” with the included “giant” one if that’s extra snug for you personally. Each nostril pads have loads of padding and air and are properly designed to deal with the burden of the glasses.
Since, like another XR glasses, the Air 2s depend on angled projection to get the picture in entrance of your eyes, vertical alignment will at all times be considerably of a difficulty. With a view to tackle this, Air 2s glasses provide vertical angle adjustment for the arms. You get three positions to experiment with to suit the picture full in your airplane of view.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses should at all times be hooked up to the USB Kind-C cable by way of the tip of the fitting arm. The glasses themselves don’t have any computing or precise energy, for that matter. All of it comes by way of the USB port, so you possibly can’t realistically anticipate to be very “stealthy” whereas truly utilizing the system. The USB Kind-C to Kind-C cable supplied within the field is angled on one finish to suit extra snugly on the glasses. You should utilize any respectable cable of your individual, however the supplied one is fairly nice. It’s smooth and versatile, but very sturdy, with out being too thick. It by no means will get in your means whereas sporting the glasses.
We recognize the Kind-C connector and its stable bodily connection. There may be just about no probability of unintentionally yanking the cable out of the glasses. Nevertheless, that additionally implies that if you happen to occur to get entangled, you might be prone to yank the glasses themselves off of your face. A magnetic connector would in all probability be higher on this regard.
As for cable size, we by no means wanted greater than the supplied one supplied. It’s lengthy sufficient to be snug whereas sitting in entrance of a tool or holding it in your lap, and it even reaches most pant pockets if you happen to actually really feel like strolling with the glasses on.
RayNeo is especially pleased with the speaker system on the Air 2s glasses. There are 4 audio system in complete on the glasses – two on the left arm and two on the fitting. Output grills are pointing up and down.
TCL says that the audio system deliver a 100% quantity enhance. We discovered the audio system fairly sufficient, however nothing to cellphone house about. Mids come by way of sounding fairly clear, which is necessary for issues like dialogue. Highs incessantly get distorted at larger volumes, and there’s barely any bass.
You in all probability will not need to crank the audio system too excessive since they’ll get uncomfortable listening to and probably hassle any close by individuals. Having mentioned that, the Air 2s glasses have one thing referred to as Whisper Mode 2.0. It guarantees that there will likely be no sound leakage at 20cm distance from the audio system, even at 50% quantity.
You aren’t getting many precise bodily controls on the Air 2s. There isn’t a myopia adjustment or something of the kind. The one strategy to dial in focus is thru bodily adjusting the glasses in your face. You do nonetheless get a quantity rocker and a multifunctional purposeful button on one of many arms and a brightness rocker on the opposite.
The rockers and buttons are fairly small however completely purposeful, clicky, and have properly tactile suggestions. We now have no complaints there.
The one different seen I/O on the glasses is the damage sensor above the nostril pads. It really works fairly properly, and we now have no complaints about it constantly.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses work straight with nearly each system that helps DP output over USB Kind-C Alt mode. There are two non-compulsory adapters for additional connectivity choices. One known as the “adapter,” receiving and changing wi-fi casting alerts into the glasses. It’s significantly suited to Apple and different non-DP gadgets. RayNeo additionally provides an “HDMI” adapter. That merely takes in an HDMI sign from one thing like a sport console, converts it, and sends it to the glasses. This one is wired. There may be additionally the RayNeo “JoyDock” that’s particularly meant to work with the Nintendo Change. It replaces the Change’s default dock and has an onboard battery to extend gaming classes.
Then there’s the RayNeo “Pocket TV”, which we do have within the workplace alongside the glasses and will likely be taking a more in-depth take a look at in a bit. Merely put, it’s a standalone system working Google TV that’s meant to hook as much as the glasses.
The RayNeo Air 2s have one “major” mode of operation. You simply hook them to a supply and get a static picture projection in entrance of you (one thing like 130 inches at a perceived distance of round 4 meters). The picture “follows” your head actions, although with none monitoring. It simply stays centered in your line of sight.
Then there’s the RayNeo XR Android app. You will get it on the Google Play Retailer solely in supported areas, however others have the choice to sideload it. The XR app shouldn’t be a lot to have a look at on the cellphone aspect. It provides a trackpad for enter on the show, alongside a house button and likewise leverages the cellphone’s accelerometer to spawn a spatial pointer controller contained in the Air glasses interface.
The RayNeo XR app spawns one thing referred to as the “RayNeo XR area”. It provides a 3 DoF head-tracking house display screen expertise alongside a couple of apps. Most notably, a “spatial” internet browser and a YouTube participant. The principle UI is properly laid out, and there are many handy suggestions for 360-degree spatial movies to play from YouTube.
Talking of enjoying again spatial movies, the RayNao XR app handles these considerably oddly. It’s sort of arduous to clarify, so it’s best to test it out for your self. Nonetheless, as an alternative of inserting you straight “inside” the video, the participant spawns a flat viewing floor in entrance of you, like a display screen, permitting you to maneuver your head round to realize 3 DoF monitoring inside the video, as anticipated. It’s kind of of a bizarre impact, and we do not significantly prefer it.
Additionally it is value noting that whereas all the primary options like multimedia playback, a browser, and even a video games part are lined, the RayNeo XR app is a bit gentle on further options. Specifically, the factor we’re lacking is the power to stream third-party VR content material to the glasses which is one thing XREAL’s competitor does have. We admit it’s janky at finest, however it’s nonetheless there and permits enjoying again VR experiences and easy VR video games from a PC to the glasses enormously bettering their versatility.
One other characteristic we missed is the power to play 180-degree SBS movies on the glasses with correct monitoring. This appears to be absent each with the RayNeo XR app and the non-compulsory Pocket TV accent, which is a disgrace.
All of the glasses actually require to work is a USB Kind-C port with USB alt-mode assist for Show Port output. The glasses themselves are usually not too power-hungry, so most gadgets do not wrestle to energy them on.
What does that imply in real-world phrases? Let’s begin with laptops since they’re simpler to sum up. You’re able to go in case your laptop computer helps DP alt mode over USB Kind-C. This must be listed on the laptop computer’s specs sheet since these are usually well-detailed. We tried on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9, an ASUS Zephyrus G14 from 2021, and an M1 MacBook Air efficiently. A bizarre record for certain, but it surely illustrates the principle level – you probably have DP over Kind-C, it would work.
Issues are a bit messier on the cellphone aspect. Now that the newest technology of iPhones has converted to USB Kind-C, the RayNeo Air 2s glasses don’t have any points working with them. So, you probably have an iPhone 15 – you might be all set. Technically, nonetheless, past that and with no further equipment, the RayNeo Air 2s glasses are an Android-only accent.
Some Android gadgets assist Show Port over USB Kind-C, however there is no such thing as a simple strategy to know which of them. rule of thumb contains that it’s usually a flagship characteristic and that you must have higher odds with gadgets from Samsung, Huawei and OnePlus. As soon as once more, it’s essential to search round to see in case your cellphone has DP over Kind-C. When it comes to telephones, we succeeded with a Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely.
As talked about, RayNeo provides two totally different adapters that may hook up with different unsupported gadgets. For older Apple tech, there’s the wi-fi Miracast adapter; for wired HDMI connectivity, there’s the “HDMI” adapter, so most bases are lined.
We additionally did some testing on our personal and we discovered the Nintendo Change doesn’t work attached straight to the glasses. You want the extra JoyDock accent or the HDMI adapter to connect with the Change. The Valve Steam Deck, which helps DP over its Kind-C port, simply works by being related straight to the glasses. The identical goes for the ASUS ROG Ally.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses have Full HD 1920 x 1080-pixel optical decision with 8-bit colours. You additionally get 46-degree discipline of view, which is fairly commonplace and 600 nits of marketed perceived brightness. That is fairly excessive, so far as XR glasses’ brightness goes. TCL says that the Air 2s can do as much as 201 inches of digital show, however we consider that refers back to the 3D mode with head monitoring. Within the common “static” picture mode, you might be getting extra within the ballpark of 130 inches.
Sadly, because the shows on the RayNeo Air 2s are usually not conventional in any means, we won’t put particular numbers to their efficiency traits.
We now have to say that the shows look nice in individual. They’ll get very brilliant, nearly uncomfortable, and the colours are very good and vivid. The one actual challenge we now have when it comes to optics has to do with show positioning. The projection sits too excessive in our visual field, and we consistently discover ourselves pushing our glasses right down to see the underside fringe of the show.
You additionally should get used to the truth that you might be consistently seeing the skin world, a minimum of to some extent. Nonetheless, we might say that the brightness is sufficient to make the glasses usable in just about each setting. Greater brightness ranges will be fatiguing for some individuals. In any case, the shows are very near your eyes. The RayNeo Air 2s glasses promote TUV Rheinland certifications for low Blue Gentle emissions and Flicker-free, although.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses function at 60Hz when in commonplace “direct streaming” 2D mode. When you contain the RayNeo XR app and its 3D mode, you possibly can allow 120Hz refresh price, which is nice for sure Android video games. Nevertheless, we want there was a strategy to get 120Hz working within the different mode for issues like sport consoles.
Pixel response time is excellent. There may be little enter latency, too. We managed to sport on the RayNeo 2s, enjoying a couple of platformers requiring cheap leap timing precision with no points.
On the subject of picture readability, we must always observe that the mage, as we already mentioned, seems to be very crisp and sharp within the common “direct streaming” 2D mode. Nevertheless, within the 3D mode contained in the RayNeo XR app, issues can get fairly blurry, particularly whereas in movement. The finer textual content is fairly arduous to learn, as properly.
Because the RayNeo Air 2s glasses are solely powered by way of a Kind-C port, one of many few precise checks we managed to run on them was to measure energy consumption. With a reasonably static picture on the display screen, like shopping or working, they drew round 1.5W – 1.6W, relying on the brightness setting. Whereas enjoying a video with sound, the glasses used between 1.6W and a pair of.0W. All fairly spectacular numbers.
In additional sensible phrases, watching a two-hour film from Netflix on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely with the RayNeo Air 2s on ate up round 32% of the battery, which is completely cheap.
The RayNeo Pocket TV is an non-compulsory accent for the RayNeo Air 2s glasses that provides extra smarts to the glasses. It’s mainly a self-contained “sensible field”, working Google TV with a pretty big 6,500 mAh battery on board. The Pocket TV is barely smaller than a contemporary smartphone at 130 x 61 x 23mm (5.1″ x 2.4″ x 0.9″) and weighs 205 grams.
Controls on the Pocket TV are laid out like a giant TV distant. The middle “wheel” shouldn’t be a wheel however a easy directional pad with a button within the center. It really works fairly properly for navigating the Google TV UI, however the buttons are a bit mushy and squeaky, which might turn out to be annoying after some time. That mentioned, you aren’t meant to be clicking all of them that a lot, simply to navigate to your content material of selection. The button with the rocket ship can also be a user-programable shortcut.
The Pocket TV does have a microSD slot for storage growth, which is nice to see to enhance the onboard 64GB of eMMC storage. There are two USB Kind-C ports on the underside of the unit. The left one is for charging. Energy Supply is supported, which is welcome. The correct port is the system’s sole video output. It outputs PD over USB Alt mode. We tried hooking it as much as a daily monitor with a Kind-C port, and it really works. We aren’t certain if that’s handy for anybody, although. An everyday HDMI of some kind would have been enormously appreciated since that might have upped versatility a complete lot.
The Pocket TV is not significantly highly effective. The truth is, by no means. It’s powered by an Amlogic S905Y4 chipset with 4 Cortex-A35 CPU cores and a Mali-G31MP2 GPU. It’s paired with 3GB of RAM, which is respectable for a Google TV system. Plus, you get pretty trendy Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, which can also be nice.
The Pocket TV and its chipset do a fairly nice job on the subject of {hardware} video and audio decoding, which is arguably what counts most on this case. You’ll be able to see a full record of supported codecs beneath. You will need to observe that the Pocket TV does assist HDR10+ and Dolby Imaginative and prescient decoding, plus DTS and Dolby Audio. Nevertheless, the RayNeo Air 2s glasses would not have HDR assist, which suggests you possibly can solely get SDR video handed on to them.
On a extra constructive observe, the Pocket TV does have the very best attainable Google Widevine L1 DRM certification, permitting apps like Netflix to saturate its FullHD decision with matching stream decision.
The Pocket TV additionally has loads of image settings to mess around with. You’ll be able to modify the decision scale for the complete UI and scale down the picture measurement to 80% of the unique, which does assist mitigate the entire challenge with the underside of the image incessantly being lower off due to how the optics are aligned.
You’ll be able to’t explicitly power the Pocket TV into 120Hz mode, however you possibly can have it match the on-screen refresh price for if you find yourself enjoying excessive refresh price video, for example. And because the Pocket TV would not actually have any energy for gaming, you might be prone to be completely advantageous with the default 60Hz the remainder of the time.
You will need to observe that the Pocket TV can solely function in the usual “static” 2D mode of the glasses. Meaning there is no such thing as a head monitoring of any variety, as you’ll get from the RayNeo XR app. Actually, we desire it this manner because you get a lot cleaner and sharper textual content and pictures. Nevertheless, do not anticipate to be having fun with any 360-degree or 180-degree SBS movies on the Pocket TV. Simply common “flat” 2D media content material.
The Google TV UI could be very clear and simple. It has many similarities to Android TV however focuses extra on content material, sensible aggregation, and proposals. You continue to get entry to all Android TV/Google TV apps by way of the Google Play retailer, which is nice. That covers all the main streaming platforms and all different primary use instances, like good native video gamers, file browsers and even some superior apps like HTTP and FTP file servers for simply getting content material to the Pocket TV. You’ll in all probability be doing most of your navigation with the buttons, although the Pocket TV has built-in 9-axis IMU sensors, so you might additionally use the air mouse characteristic. There may be an built-in microphone and Google voice assistant, too.
Lastly, we did an impromptu endurance check on the Pocket TV. The producer claims that it ought to be capable of do 9 days of standby, 7 hours of steady “use”, no matter that refers to and 5.5 hours of video playback. In our testing, we bought nearer to 4.5 hours of high-quality video streamed by way of Plex. By the way in which, the four-light array within the high proper nook additionally signifies the battery stage.
The RayNeo Air 2s glasses retail for $400 from the official retailer. Presently, that features a free Miracast Moveable Adapter, which is the factor it’s essential to connect older Apple tech or desktops wirelessly to the glasses. You too can get a bundle with the Pocket TV for $540 or one with the JoyDock for the Nintendo Change for $460. All of these sound honest and aggressive within the present XR glasses panorama.
We positively loved our time with the RayNeo Air 2s glasses. Their picture high quality total, significantly brightness and sharpness, appears to be a neck above rivals we have tried from the likes of XREAL. The Air 2s glasses are additionally fairly snug and well-designed.
When it comes to issues we did not like or felt have been lacking, show vertical alignment appears to be our largest challenge. It may be considerably mitigated by crushing and molding the nostril pads aggressively, besides, the picture appears to be projected only a bit too excessive for our style, incessantly slicing out the underside of the image. Additionally, we might have cherished to see a means for gadgets aside from smartphones with the RayNeo XR app and the Pocket TV to entry 120 Hz mode. For example, we cherished the Steam Deck plus glasses combo, however 120 Hz would have made that so a lot better. And talking of superior use instances, we might have cherished to see a strategy to stream PC VR content material to the glasses, even when it is janky like what XREAL has. Enjoying again 180-degree SBS video content material can also be a sore omission.
All issues thought of, if you happen to prioritize picture and sound high quality in a pair of XR glasses, then positively contemplate the RayNeo Air 2s. Nevertheless, in case you are seeking to tinker and go in deeper with issues like superior playback of 3D content material and even rudimentary VR, then we might in all probability nudge you in one other route at a competitor that has barely extra mature software program options in that regard. Should you resolve to go for a RayNeo Air 2s pair, do your self a favor and contemplate the $140 additional for a Pocket TV. It actually does make utilizing the glasses a complete lot higher and extra handy.
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