We get loads of emails from everyone
from established companies to brand new startups
asking us to cover their product.
But I don't know if there has ever been one
as persistent as Viture.
An AR glasses company that says.
There must be a lot of companies
claiming to be the next Apple,
but we will be the ones.
Wow.
Is that ever a bold claim?
But at first glance, there are some positives.
Like, look at this.
Luke's gonna be joining me today.
Ooh, Time Best Inventions 2022.
That's a very promising endorsement.
It's always the best product.
For lots of video views on a dumb product.
So then Viture, if it's gonna stop
the pages long bombardment of emails
that you guys have been sending me, I'll do it.
I will review the Viture One AR glasses.
I will do it personally,
as you have specifically requested.
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They actually sent a whole care package.
We've got the glasses.
We've got their neckband speaker thing.
We've got the dock.
Should I not join like later on in the video?
No, no, no.
Because you see, I've actually already tried this stuff.
You get to be my guinea pig.
Okay, cool.
Look at these promotional materials.
You could be this cool.
I feel like the glasses are actually less thick
in the mock-up than they are in real life.
Don't make fun of that kid.
They have enough problems.
I mean, there's some pretty compelling stuff.
Okay.
Go from a seven inch 720p screen on a steam deck
or a Nintendo switch to a full HD, 60 FPS screen.
That's 120 inches, right?
Fashionable and functional.
Oh boy.
I'll let you be the judge of that.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The future is on view is their slogan.
These are some pretty stylish glasses.
I knew that like thing that goes in front of the eyebrow
is thick, but that looks horrible.
See, I knew it was going to be helpful to have them here.
Thank you.
Nobody laughs at me quite like you do.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Maybe Linus just looks dumb in glasses.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe that's the problem.
It's now like, hey, those glasses don't necessarily
suit Linus instead of like, hey, those glasses
definitely would be unable to suit anyone.
But let's be fair.
A lot of what they say does have a nugget of truth to it.
The materials do in fact feel pretty darn high quality
for what it is.
The color looks great.
The weight compared to normal glasses is, it's heavier.
There's a scale Linus.
Oh, there's a scale.
Okay, all right.
It felt not that bad until I was holding other glasses.
Regular glasses, 22 grams.
Viture AR glasses, 83 grams.
They've got speakers on the arms that from my experience
sound serviceable.
They've got adjustable nose pads that are swappable
to three different sizes and they're quite soft.
Adjustable nose pads being a feature of glasses
is a little questionable.
You probably need that considering how much they weigh.
I think that from certain angles,
they do look kind of cool.
Yeah, that's horrible.
The second they go on your face, it's just over.
Alex's notes are particularly savage.
Everyone thinks they look super lame once you put them on.
It's fair, it's true.
Go ahead and put them on.
Sure, okay.
Oh boy, yep.
At least you can actually see out of them.
Well, sort of.
The top like massive percentage,
probably like 30% of my vision is just gone.
It's worse for Yvonne.
So for her, they sit right about here.
Okay, you're gonna have to like look over them.
Okay, we have to be fair, we have to be fair.
They have other nose pads.
That is a very tall nose pad.
Whoa.
This looks more like an aircraft landing gear.
Looks aside, the tech in these is actually pretty cool.
In each eye is a teeny tiny 1080p OLED display.
And as you're gonna see, initial impressions,
contrast is like actually shockingly good.
These displays shine down onto the lens
and then they bounce into your eye.
This magnetic connector, actually pretty sick.
Here, why don't we just hook up to my phone?
I should get prompted to fire up Samsung decks.
Come on buddy.
Hey, there it is.
Nice.
Okay, I've got my track pad, I've got my display
and I've got definitely nothing incriminating on my phone.
Good.
Are you ready to be wowed though?
Yes.
For an honest first impression though,
you should look somewhere a little more dark.
They don't fit my head at all.
Well.
If it was in my eyesight, it would be pretty cool.
I have to look down like this angle.
Well, try and get them adjusted a bit.
It would need to sit up here.
Okay, let's put the other ones on.
We'll put the other ones on.
Let's give these a fair chance, okay?
Excuse me.
One problem that they're gonna run into
is that glasses really aren't actually as one size fits all
as people would probably like them to be.
And they are definitely too small for my head.
Okay, well, you know what?
The whole task bar at the bottom is just gone
unless I do this and look down into the glasses.
That is a problem that I had with it as well.
I'd say you end up with about 60% horizontally in focus,
maybe 80% vertically,
but the outer 20% of either side
also has this vignetting and color accuracy issues.
And I found that I had to really dial it in
to see even 90% of the actual total image.
I think this is the best spot I've gotten it to so far.
Now, your experience the first time you fire it up
is gonna vary greatly
depending on what kind of device you hook it up to.
Flagship Samsung and iOS devices
support DisplayPort over USB-C,
but many phones, including the Google Pixel,
don't support this.
Thankfully, both Alex and I have Samsung phones,
so when we plugged it in,
it just worked using Samsung DeX.
I'd like you to fire up some content.
Going into gallery?
Plex, trust me, you won't find anything
you wanna watch in gallery.
Hey, maybe I would.
Wait, why do you need that?
Just go to the app.
Oh, I can't see the bar probably.
I have to hold the glasses like this.
I gotta say, aside from just the look of the glasses,
your dead-ass stare, there we go.
That's a bad experience.
In fairness, this is a Samsung menu problem.
Your speakers are working.
Yeah, those are, like you said, they're fine.
Quite usable, and there's more.
Okay, turn this way, turn this way.
On the side, we have two controls,
a rocker that adjusts the brightness of the displays,
and this is pretty sweet,
this front piece is electrochromic glass,
so this toggle right here
should dramatically improve your contrast, huh?
It makes it way better.
You can go even further.
Oh, what's this?
Blackout shade.
Is this even more ridiculous?
Why am I not just wearing VR goggles?
It looks pretty good, doesn't it?
Yeah, the screen is super clear.
I can see the corners better now, significantly better now.
However, we did have some concerns.
Yeah, the displays look great.
They're really bright, but that made us wonder
what kind of power draw is going on here,
because the glasses themselves
have no battery in them whatsoever.
I think the nausea just hit him.
Yep, okay, we'll talk about that in a minute.
We sent them over to labs for testing.
It draws about 0.78 watts,
which will impact your phone's battery,
but isn't that crazy?
Also, you can independently adjust the focus on each eye,
which can both be a problem,
because getting them focused at the same distance
can be a little bit finicky,
but could be a good thing depending on
maybe some people's eyes need that or something.
In our notes, Alex discusses
how the Viture makes him severely ill,
which is why you're here.
I didn't feel it until that moment,
because I was looking at something on the screen
and I nodded at the same time.
And the second I did that, it was like,
whoa, that's not good.
I was fine when I was just sitting at my desk
in my computer room,
sort of typing up notes and experiencing it and trying it.
You know how I talked on WAN Show recently
about the idea of using Apple's Vision Pro AR goggles
to like be watching a video in the corner of your eye
while you're cooking or something like that?
I thought to myself,
maybe I don't need to spend $3,500 for that experience.
And I put them on and I got up and I went.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to stand.
Like with the very, very little movement that I did.
Well, I actually felt it a little bit there.
Yeah.
Linus isn't a drinker, but I find five minutes in this
is like 20 beers last night.
Wait, is he skateboarding with this on?
He's one wheeling with it on.
Dude must have a stomach of steel.
He looks cooler with them, I will say.
He doesn't actually have content
playing on these right now, does he?
I don't know.
Is there, so you really have to be tethered then?
Yeah.
However, there are some potential use cases
and if either of us is willing to try them out,
they've got some more accessories for us to kit it out with.
We have the Vitureure neckband speakers.
This is an Android TV interface for the Android TV box
that actually runs on this thing.
Before we set that up though,
we've got yet another accessory.
This is a battery bank slash dock.
It allows you to hook up two sets of Vitureure One XR goggles
and it's got an HDMI output.
No, input.
You're gonna be player one.
Is you a player like that?
Oh my God, Steve's not signed in.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I wouldn't have that on any more than you have to.
I feel so uncomfortable right now.
By the way, you might've noticed something.
If I was watching some content.
Not if you put these on.
I mean, yeah, but then I am truly a supreme dingus.
Yeah.
It does look really good.
Yeah.
The screens are great when you can see the whole thing.
Yeah.
I also have some serious questions about their claim
of it being a 120 inch display.
That's a 65 incher right there
at I'd say a pretty reasonable distance.
If I line it up.
Yeah, 120 inch at like from here to fricking
like way over there.
I mean, it's big,
but if I was holding my game console here.
Not quite, not quite, not quite.
Me and Geoff agreed that it felt like a 32 inch monitor,
but like a 32 inch display on a table isn't too bad.
Not 120.
Yeah, that wouldn't make you sick.
Also this firmware update tool thing, go away.
May I have a mouse please?
That's a winner of a mouse.
I don't care.
I'll take anything.
Okay.
Oh, loading shaders.
That's what it's doing.
Oh my God.
If you need to actually do anything in the real world,
I find this is just about the best way to do it.
Yeah.
The dock is legitimately kind of cool.
There's a battery on board.
So if you run a Nintendo switch off of this thing,
which is kind of what it's designed for,
it increases your battery life by six to eight hours.
Okay.
And you know, like I said before,
it supports two of the glasses and it has an HDMI input.
So you can use it with anything like, you know,
those phones that don't properly support it.
Yeah, and I've got that.
Oh, oh, it goes right on the back of your switch.
Yeah, rear mounts.
That's pretty cool.
Hold on, hold on.
I think it's actually launching now.
Real gamers play the menu in PC games for an hour
and then have to get off.
Okay, that's not fair.
We also have our chat open with our friends
who are also trying to get past the menu.
Based on this experience, I'm sold.
I used it for like five seconds, wanted to hurl,
and then have watched you struggle for like 20 minutes
to get one game going.
Okay, I'm vetoing the ally.
I'm coming in.
Hold on, hold on.
One second.
One, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I have to change the operating mode of the thing.
It's in control mode.
Okay, game pad.
There we go.
Okay, it's in game pad mode now.
Hey, let's go.
Great Sky Island.
Hey.
Wow, this is really laggy.
I was on a plane when I configured all of this,
so I didn't have internet,
so I couldn't look at any guides or anything.
And now Reddit's down, so there are no guides.
Yeah.
Again, with the corners being all fuzzed out,
there's some resource indicators
in the top left-hand corner, like hearts and something else
that I can't see.
It looks like a sword.
It looks like there might be some indication
of a button to press for that sword icon,
but I can't tell what button that is.
Ah, yes, it's the left button,
which I can figure out by shoving my glasses to the side
in a position that I can't just wear them
like this permanently.
Also, if I did that,
now the entire bottom right corner is just gone.
So there's no real position where I can see.
No, you don't need the mini-map, do you?
Watch me make Luke sick.
Honestly, that's okay.
Watch me make Luke sick.
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say.
Oh, yes, oh, I shouldn't have tilted my head there.
Remember, too, we have a fair amount of experience
in VR headsets.
Oh yeah, this is abnormal.
This is an experience I would not want to do
for more than like five to 10 minutes.
Yeah, I regularly game in VR for an hour, two hours,
three hours at a time, and it's not a problem.
I can play games like Beat Saber,
which have a lot of movement involved
for a very long time.
This, on the other hand, I want to stop actively.
Part of that is the game's just running like trash,
but I have to keep a consistent posture,
or else things start to get thrown off really fast,
and I feel really not good.
But wait, there's more.
Why don't we try the Android TV box?
Sure, okay.
Wait, have you configured this at all or anything?
I have not turned it on.
I am never wearing this again.
All right, I'm gonna power it on.
This might be pre-paired to it.
Ooh, it supports Bluetooth controllers like the DualSense,
allowing you to play any Android games that-
I don't know why you would, but-
There's a Final Fantasy game for Android
that is like pre-Gacha loot box mechanics
that is apparently very good.
Okay, it's on now.
Okay, there's a fan.
There's a frickin' fan in it.
Ha ha, it's not for cooling you, right?
It's for cooling it?
Nice, nice.
If they had a fan that cooled you,
I would actually be more happy with this product.
It's the kind of thing the next Apple would do.
The fact that you are still doing that thing
where you look up so you can get your eyes
under the glasses to be able to look at the camera
proves that it's really not that great of an experience.
Here's a question for you.
Oh, crap.
What would be up to you?
This one?
Yeah.
No.
Really?
This is left.
You've got, on the one hand,
analysts and media questioning Apple's Vision Pro
you know, mixed reality headset going,
who would you, whatever, what would people use it for?
Who would be crazy enough to pay?
$3,500, particularly the price.
This is like $600.
I don't care about this.
Yeah.
But if I did, I would probably pay six times more
for one that doesn't make me nauseated.
Yeah.
Ooh, 3D player.
Whoa, stereo 3D.
Let's go.
Okay.
It's pretty cool.
So you found the one use case.
We have no capture of this.
Oh, come look into my eyes.
Imagine that, but in 3D.
You know that 3D headache though, like right in here?
Yeah.
Yeah, you know the one.
You're already feeling it?
Oh yeah.
That's pretty bad.
It's surprising to me how much
of like an actual product it is.
And like the screens are good.
Clarity is very high.
When you do the electrochromic screens,
contrast and stuff is really good.
1800 nits.
Yeah.
Like, wow.
In that little thing.
But then the fact that you have this actually
really nice screen that you're looking at,
but then it's like always being cut off
or like carved on the corners.
If you could see the whole screen properly all the time,
that the amount of that just got better
is like very, very high.
I think that for people who are really after this.
This is definitely the best version of this
that I have tried.
Oh, it's by far the best version of this that I've tried.
And I immediately want to take it off
and go back to the screen built into my device.
Yes.
So there you have it.
We took a worse version of the Apple vision pro
to convince us that the Apple vision pro
might have a place once the price comes down.
Yeah.
Maybe not $3,500,
but if it costs twice as much as this,
oh wait, it's not as much as I thought.
4.9 stars with 34 reviews.
See, that's the thing.
We actually looked at a similar product four years ago.
And back when I was working at NCIX,
there was a brand called Vuzix.
Yeah.
That used to make these, but worse, actually.
So to Viture's credit,
they've actually made a lot of progress.
But to imagine that they are the next Apple,
I think is pretty optimistic.
If anything, they're the best of a kind of niche
and uncomfortable bunch.
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