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\u201cURGENT: Immediate Action<\/span> Required\u201d blasts into my eyeballs as I scroll through the impossibly giant email inbox looming directly in front of my face.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reclined way back in a chair, wearing a pair of Xreal<\/a> smart glasses. Tethered to my laptop via a USB-C cord, these glasses mirror the laptop screen and project it into a virtual display. The virtual screen is gigantic, equivalent to a 170-inch TV that feels about a foot away from my nose. I\u2019m the only one who can see it, and so I\u2019ve got this massive display all to myself.<\/p>\n

With this technological marvel, I conjure the most riveting view imaginable: five workplace training modules about business principles and cybersecurity that my boss has repeatedly reminded me are very overdue. The text on the screen is blurry, but I complete them all within my virtual display. It takes several hours. By the time I\u2019m done, the glasses have overheated, my forehead is sweaty, and I\u2019m still not sure I can actually recognize a phishing email.<\/p>\n

Virtual display glasses are a much more niche category of mixed-reality smart glasses<\/a> than the camera-equipped, AI-powered frames that have dominated the product market\u2014namely, Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban glasses. Made by companies like Xreal, Viture<\/a>, and Rokid, these glasses aim to bring a screen directly to your face. Like a portable monitor, plug the USB-C cable into the arm of the glasses, then stick the other end into the port of just about any laptop, phone, tablet, or handheld gaming console. Slap \u2019em on, and that screen mirrors in a holographic VR-style projection, right in your center of vision.<\/p>\n

Wearing them, you can chill out in an airplane seat, lie prone, even dangle upside-down if you like, and the big screen stays right there with you. (No tech neck<\/a>!) Yup, you’re basically cosplaying the lazy humans in Wall-E<\/em>. Hooray.<\/p>\n

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Virtual display glasses don\u2019t get the heat of privacy issues that Meta\u2019s \u201cpervert glasses<\/a>\u201d do. No cameras, no recording\u2014just sweet, sweet content consumption beamed out an inch from your eye holes. If you’re feeling generous, the Xreal glasses could even be lauded for their privacy protections, at least for the user. Got sensitive documents or embarrassing videos you’re trying to watch on a plane? A virtual display is one only the wearer can see. (The Xreal glasses also have speakers in the frames that do leak sound, so be careful with your audible content consumption.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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