The technology and the general category of headmounted displays have come a long
way. It's genuinely impressive now, but there's always been one thing it's been
missing. Brand integration with the Batman
universe. Thankfully, Ray Neo has solved
that problem with the Ray Neo Air4 Pro
Batman edition and Joker edition.
Phew. And thank you to Reineo for sponsoring this video so I can have this
experience. Now, Ray Neo announced the Air4 Pro at CES back in January, but
they are shipping now in these special Batman versions and nonBatman versions.
Although, once you see these, I don't know if you're going to want that one.
Just let me show you. Okay, so first off, these packages. Very nice. Kind of
like a a fabric. Oh no, what's happening to Batman? He's breaking apart. Thanos
snapped him. But inside the box Oh. Oh,
there's the mask. Okay, so this is the glasses themselves. And this is the the
Batman mask. Okay. So, this is the bat
shade that we're going to mount on to
the headmounted display glasses here. But first, we need to get an
understanding of what we are mounting that thing onto. Uh, so let's take a
look at the glasses themselves. Now, it's been a little while since I took a
look at some headmounted display glasses, and my opinion on the whole
category has kind of changed. At first, I was hoping that they would be more
like compact VR displays. Then I was like, "Oh, maybe I want them to be kind
of AR, so like they're glasses you can see into the real world with." But I
feel like the category has really come into its own as, you know, a way to
experience a big giant high-res HDR
display without actually connecting to a monitor or a TV. You can have it with
you in any configuration you want. And this is where the Raino Air4 Pro
supposedly really shines. We'll take a look at that a little bit later, but
first let's take a look at the exterior of the device. First things first, let's
remove the protective film on the actual
displays there. Nice. We got some fairly large squishy
pads on the for the nose pads there, which I appreciate. I appreciate extra
padding for my schnoz. Got a wear detection sensor there. On the bottom,
we have quite a few buttons going on. We got what looks like a volume rocker over
here next to a some uh some kind of settings button maybe and then a
brightness rocker on the other side. Up here we have what must be speakers
on either arm. On the opposite side of the arms on the top here we got what
look like vents of some kind. On the
rear of the right glasses arm, we have a USBC port for charging and data and
display because that's how you're going to get stuff onto the glasses. And on
the inside of the arm here, we have a little sticker that's telling you that
you can adjust the angle uh that the arm
connects to the actual glasses. So, if I pull that off now, I don't know how to
do it.
Okay, there it is. You can see that's kind of the range of available
positions. I feel like with the arms at a more downward angle, you kind of are
getting a more direct line right onto the display. Whereas in the other mode,
you know, it's whatever works for you really. While I have them on my face
here, I got to say, as someone who wears glasses normally all the time, hi.
Having those resting on your nose all day can be really annoying. So, this is
Man, that's luxurious. And lastly on the front here, we are now in the current
year used to people wearing glasses with cameras on the front. These are not
cameras. There's no cameras here. That's not that this is not that kind of
device. It respects you. So, those are the glasses themselves. We're going to
turn them on and and play around with them a little bit in a second. But first, I want to see what else is in
this fancy Batman package we got going on here. A charging cable display. Just
the USBC cable. It's for all of it. And
it's Oh, that's a that's what that's 4 feet.
Are we saying that's four feet? And now we have to address the superhero in the
room, the bat shade. Okay, this is Wow.
You know, I've never been more excited in my life. So, we got this kind of like
polygonal geometric uh Batman face mask
design that is going to attach to the
front of these glasses. And I'm doing it. I'm doing it right now. I can't
wait. And there you have it. Now your headmounted display is officially in
Gotham mode. Where's Rachel? Whoa.
There. Wow. I didn't even know all that stuff was in there. This is cool. We've
got documentation papers. I'm not
reading. I honestly I probably need to look at that in a second, but not right
now. Down here, we've got a sound tube.
I don't know what a sound tube is and I but frankly that's the first thing I
want to find out. This video is now about sound tubes. What are they and how
how do they affect our society? Oh, I
got it. I figured it out. These go onto the arms and they pipe the sound down
into your more directly into your ears. Yeah. Okay. So then that that top window
is perfectly positioned to leave the vent free on the top there. speakers
there and it comes down and comes out of the hole directly more directly into
your ear hole. I've never seen this before. But isn't this exactly the type
of optimization that Batman would think about. So there you go. I mean maybe
that helps get the sound more directly in there. We'll we'll find out later, I
guess. Honestly though, it does make it look more like a Batman. Like before it
looked like glasses with a Batman thing on it and now it looks like wo maybe
Batman actually wears this. So, here we have what I assume would be the
prescription lens insert because you can get prescription lenses for this thing.
I'm wearing contacts today, so I don't need them. But if you choose to not have
contacts, you could get prescription lenses. There's a little nub in here.
You clip them on. So, there you go. You will look nerdier, but it'll be on this
side of the glasses, so no one else will know. You'll still look badass. And then
we also have uh what I guess is a Batman
logo that serves as a stand to hang the
bat shade on. Anyway, when you're not in Gotham mode, you can kind of have that
on your desk and look at it and feel, you know, feel good. All right, in the
Joker edition, we've got the Joker
shade. Okay, so as you can see, this kind of has a similar polygonal
geometric design. And under this, we've
got the same kind of accessories as in the other box. And the glasses in this
edition are just the same model. No, no color change or anything. All right, I'm
going to set this aside so we have more room for activities.
And let me tell you, once you put these on,
I'm the Joker, baby. Why so serious?
Okay, that doesn't work. Um, so it's finally time to experience some content
inside these glasses. And what better way to experience what Raino says is the
world's first HDR10 display in AR
glasses by watching some Batman. So, I'm
connected to an iPhone 17 Pro Max here.
And we have the Batman, the Matt Reeves
movie queued up to what I'm told is a
good section. Okay, this looks pretty good. I need I might need to turn it
down. So, I went to turn the volume up and I actually turned the brightness up
instead. And I realized that I wasn't at max brightness, but at max brightness,
it looks really nice. They can do,200 nits of brightness with the uh micro
OLED displays. Raineio says that this is their Hue View 2.0 5.5th generation
micro OLED display. And I got to say, I mean, especially with the shade in
front, you know, we got these big studio lights here, which is affecting things a
little bit, but if the big studio lights weren't there, like, oh man, this feels
like I'm sitting in a theater. And I actually forgot that Raino says it's
supposed to be like a 201in
display that's 6 m away from you or about 19 ft. With the shade on, it's
like I'm sitting in a totally black room. And it it does like if I kind of
believe for a second that I'm sitting in a theater and that I'm I got a pretty
good seat looking at this theater display. That's what it seems like. Now
to get back to what I was trying to try out, which was the speakers, which are
apparently a quad speaker array co-tuned
with Bang and Olofen. We're going to play our standard. We're going to we're
going to play the play the classics. Oh, and I should mention before I play it,
the Crab Rave is SDR video content, but thanks to the Vision 4000 chip on the
radio Air4 Pro. Uh, they have this AI
SDR to HDR conversion mode that you can
access just by opening the menu here. So, I'll have that experience plus the
speakers. Let's go. So, going from SDR to HDR mode, you can immediately kind of
see like the whites and the colors.
There's a bit more like pop to the colors. Everything's a little bit
brighter. Darks are a little bit darker. You can tell that it's not like native
HDR content, but it gives a little bit of a boost. You can make use of some of
the capability of this device to like express that higher range of of colors.
I'm going to turn these speakers up now so that I can hear the uh quad speaker
array. Jeez. Okay, so that's max volume. Holy crap, that's loud.
Yo, that's pretty good. These speakers
are pretty good. Uh, hold on. Give me another minute.
I got to say it is better than you would expect
glasses mounted speakers to be. Now, what if I turn it down a little bit? Cuz
I I probably wouldn't want it this loud, honestly. I feel like if anything is
like I would like to be bumped up a little bit, it would be the mids, but I
don't even know. Maybe I take it back. It's pretty good, but bear in mind
that's without the sound tubes. Are these supposed to kind of help with the
privacy aspect? Like maybe you can play sound without it like
other people hearing it as much. Okay, we're going to listen to the sound with
the sound tubes on. And in order to do
that, you want to go into the settings in the menu here and just enable sound
tube mode.
Wow. I don't know. Does that seem louder to you guys? Because that seems much
louder to me. It sounded pretty good. I I still prefer the sound without the
sound tubes, but you're getting a benefit in terms of the trade-off with
the volume there. Now, while I'm still connected to the iPhone here, I'm going
to open the Raino XR app, which
apparently uh allows you to experience 2D to 3D conversion software feature
that Reineo has uh has just launched alongside the glasses. This will take
your 2D photos and videos and allow you to view them as 3D. It's a custom kind
of experience. And the phone is the cursor. Interesting. I can you can move
it around like a like a Wii mode. So, as you move your head, the display is just
locked to where you are. There's it's not like tracking your head or anything, but it does look like there's a bit of
depth. There's a space field in the back and there's a UI in the front. Oh, okay.
So, this is a spatial this is a 3D video taken by an iPhone, presumably this one.
Uh, and yeah, there's a bit of depth to it. Yeah, I could Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa. We just went under a table. Hey.
Okay, that's kind of fun seeing your 2D videos and photos like in 3D mode. You
know, it's probably not something you want to do like all day every day, but
that was kind of cool. And of course, what kind of game are we going to play
with the Batman edition? Batman
Arkham City. Don't ask me why we're playing Arkham City instead of one of
the other ones, okay? Just just don't. So now this is honestly I you know it's
probably not news to anybody but this is the use case that I find most compelling
for these headmounted displays and it's running at 1080p which as I've said
before on this display is is plenty for
something that is right in front of your face. Wow. So playing that video game
really did make me feel like what it's like to be Batman. Oh, and I forgot to
mention while I was playing the game, uh these can go to 120 Hz. They have a 60
Hz and a 120 Hz mode. So, there you have it. The Raino Air4 Pro Batman Edition or
the nonBatman edition, the uh regular
version. Uh right now you can get it for $2.49 and the Batman edition is 20 bucks
more, 2.69. Thanks to Raino again for sponsoring this video. Uh it's been a
while since I checked out one of these headmounted displays, as I said, and uh
I think I want to keep playing with this one. Subscribe to ShortCircuit for more
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