WEBVTT 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:03.503 - I'm a little confused about the name. Is it like Nreal? 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:08.310 Are you just trying to say real with N in front of like Nreal? 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:13.090 Or are you trying to say en real or is it like unreal and they took the U off 00:00:13.090 --> 00:00:19.130 and so Epic Games was justified in like suing them for using a name that's very similar to Unreal Engine? 00:00:19.130 --> 00:00:20.233 Mark any thoughts? 00:00:22.198 --> 00:00:26.770 (beep) I can't even believe that it's here, which is actually a fair thing to say because 00:00:26.770 --> 00:00:32.240 I've been kinda following these things since they just got announced in 2019 I think. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.760 I think I did a segment on CES about the dev kit. 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:40.120 Cut to the segment. The Nreal Light glasses have 10 ADP laser projectors 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:44.030 that display images at 60 FPS with a 52-degree field of view. 00:00:44.030 --> 00:00:50.550 But this is not the dev kit, okay? This is exciting. I'm excited because this is the Nreal Light. 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:56.150 People in Asia have had access to this for a long time. But now it's finally rolling out. 00:00:56.150 --> 00:00:58.880 I'm teasing you. See, I'm taking it halfway as I'm talking. 00:01:00.020 --> 00:01:03.350 Now it's finally rolling out and I think the US, Canada and Europe, 00:01:03.350 --> 00:01:07.500 I think it rolled out in November. The Nreal Light is here. 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:11.600 They've already announced the Nreal Air, which is a more advanced version. 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:15.870 And that's only rolling out in like Germany, Japan, South Korea, 00:01:15.870 --> 00:01:19.070 another place? So we're not getting that yet, but we're getting the light. 00:01:19.070 --> 00:01:23.930 And this is a way to unbox. Hey, should other people do this? - [Mark] Hurry up. - I kind of like this. 00:01:23.930 --> 00:01:26.703 And there it is. Okay. 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:30.290 But look at that box. That's kinda nice, hey. 00:01:31.720 --> 00:01:36.520 They put a tiny bra in here for some reason, scandalous. 00:01:36.520 --> 00:01:39.550 It's one of the many nose pieces. So I can try that out. 00:01:39.550 --> 00:01:42.573 Are you up for some nose piece try-ons later? 00:01:44.290 --> 00:01:48.030 - [Mark] Yes. - I'm the worst unboxer. 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:51.170 Why do they keep letting me do this? How are you supposed to... 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:55.563 What? So this is not how... Oh, it just pops out. 00:01:56.450 --> 00:02:01.500 I guess these are maybe like the frame for like prescription lenses that you can have 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:06.330 instead of putting the glasses on top of your existing glasses which is what I'm gonna do? 00:02:06.330 --> 00:02:10.380 We'll see how that goes. So it's nice to see, I mean, right off the bat that like, 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:14.060 you know, it's not just like a thing and they just give it to you and it's like, if it fits, it fits. 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:18.080 There are going to be some options for customization it looks like. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.200 Okay, is there a cable? Do you need to keep this connected to your phone 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:25.720 all the time? Oh no. I mean, that's fine. 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:30.720 It's early days. Okay. Here are the glasses themselves, Nreal Light. 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:34.193 I mean, from a certain angle, you could maybe be like, 00:02:35.420 --> 00:02:38.850 oh, there's just a pair of sunglasses on the table over there. Oh, what? 00:02:38.850 --> 00:02:41.900 They're a portal to another world? 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:46.070 This is interesting. This is the default position. And then there's like flex to it 00:02:48.850 --> 00:02:52.030 'cause they hook around your head a little bit more than normal sunglasses. 00:02:52.030 --> 00:02:56.330 Yeah. It's a little bulky. I mean, this is a little more streamlined 00:02:56.330 --> 00:02:59.613 than I remember them being when I took a look at CES. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.900 But it still is like, I dunno, it's pretty bulky. 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:08.310 I'm kind of scared to put them on. And this is interesting. Here's like the glass. 00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:12.230 And normally when you put on a pair of sunglasses, you have, this is your field of view, right? 00:03:12.230 --> 00:03:18.260 You can see the whole thing. But on the light, the machinery, 00:03:18.260 --> 00:03:21.430 the electronics obscures half the lens. 00:03:21.430 --> 00:03:25.600 So when I put them on, I'm only gonna see, 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:27.663 oh no, I can't do this with my glasses. 00:03:29.089 --> 00:03:33.010 I'm gonna have to take my glasses off. It's touching my eyelashes. 00:03:33.010 --> 00:03:35.360 Oh, it's 'cause I don't have the nose piece on. 00:03:36.940 --> 00:03:39.423 Oh dear. That's not good. 00:03:40.380 --> 00:03:44.900 I mean, if I kind of like put it up. 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:49.500 So yeah, this is interesting. I mean, with the HoloLens too, it also has that issue where 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:52.530 it looks like you have this big field of view and then you put it on 00:03:52.530 --> 00:03:57.940 and you only have like a little square. I haven't turned it on yet. So I don't know how much is actually happening, 00:03:57.940 --> 00:04:01.800 but we're gonna find out I guess. Quick overview of the outside. 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.090 Got a number of cameras on the outside. So one over here and one over here 00:04:05.090 --> 00:04:08.800 and then one in the middle. I think these might be for like recording 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.653 or this one might be for recording and this one is for like the actual experiences. 00:04:13.510 --> 00:04:18.210 We got maybe some sort of rocker here. 00:04:18.210 --> 00:04:21.960 That might be volume although there's no speakers integrated. 00:04:21.960 --> 00:04:28.110 Oh no, yes there are, there are integrated speakers. So this might be volume, some sort of sensor here that I've 00:04:28.110 --> 00:04:32.160 already greased up with my forehead. 'Cause you wanna be lubricated 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.053 when you slide into the metaverse. 00:04:36.751 --> 00:04:40.160 It's like Tim Allen in the Santa Claus when he goes down the chimneys that are too small. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.713 You've seen that movie? - [Mark] Yep. - Okay, good. 00:04:45.430 --> 00:04:51.210 There's a hook over here. That is for something. Maybe you put the cord there. Oh. 00:04:51.210 --> 00:04:57.120 So is that how you keep it on your face? You put it on your face and then you take the cord 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:03.350 and now it's not going anywhere. Okay. Wow. I've never had my concerns with the product 00:05:03.350 --> 00:05:10.980 addressed so quickly. Now that's customer support. So what I'm supposed to do is plug this in to this phone 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:15.570 that they've graciously provided that has all the apps available on it. 00:05:15.570 --> 00:05:20.900 They do have like a list of compatible phones on their website. So, if you are thinking about checking this out, 00:05:20.900 --> 00:05:25.490 make sure your phone is compatible first of all. I'm supposed to plug this in 00:05:25.490 --> 00:05:28.823 and then we'll get things really going. But before we do that, 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:36.697 I gotta tell you about our sponsor. That's right. Thanks to iFixit for sponsoring this video. 00:05:36.697 --> 00:05:39.930 iFixit is the perfect gift for the techie in your life. 00:05:39.930 --> 00:05:43.370 iFixit wants to help you repair or upgrade almost anything in your home. 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:47.460 Their Pro Tech kit has 64 bits and iFixit has the most popular opening tools 00:05:47.460 --> 00:05:51.100 all rolled up in one package. 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I gotta say though right off the bat, 00:06:29.430 --> 00:06:34.500 the field of view, I don't know what the horizontal limits of it are, 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:39.500 but it's taking up the entire field of view that I have, 00:06:39.660 --> 00:06:43.540 which is about like your whole body Mark. 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:48.230 Oh, that is brightness control. So that rocker on the right, it's brightness control. 00:06:48.230 --> 00:06:53.230 My laptop has Windows Hello on it and it unlocked from this. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:59.580 It could recognize me. Turns out there is a screen recording limit of 30 seconds. 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:05.930 So I won't be able to record the whole thing and show you guys, but I will give you snippets. 00:07:05.930 --> 00:07:09.430 Are you ready? So like, things don't look too bad. 00:07:09.430 --> 00:07:14.260 I mean, like, you know, this is probably like one of the sharper VR screens I've seen. 00:07:14.260 --> 00:07:20.440 So it seems like there are a couple of different experiences here. Right now I'm on like the MR or mixed reality space 00:07:20.440 --> 00:07:23.840 where you have access to like apps that you can open. 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:28.950 Like I can open the photos app and then you can reposition Windows. 00:07:28.950 --> 00:07:32.620 So I can move this over all the way to where Mark is 00:07:32.620 --> 00:07:37.070 and make the app inside his mind. Do you see all the photos now Mark? 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:42.740 This is so weird. The screen is drifting. 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:46.460 Like it it's like confused by the surroundings and so it like, 00:07:46.460 --> 00:07:50.470 it gets confused about what to do with the screen and it's like, tilts of like drifts away. 00:07:50.470 --> 00:07:54.330 As I move my head around, I can still see the edge of the menu, 00:07:54.330 --> 00:08:00.140 but it's being occluded by, I guess where the field of view ends on this thing. 00:08:00.140 --> 00:08:05.640 So the other mode is air casting. So if I go over here to say, switch to air casting, 00:08:05.640 --> 00:08:09.170 then I can mirror my phone's display 00:08:09.170 --> 00:08:12.430 on the Nreal Light display. 00:08:12.430 --> 00:08:16.280 So if I click that, it'll stop the screen recording. 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:20.653 So I don't know how I can show you guys that, but trust me, 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:23.633 that's what you see. 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.010 It's like the phone. What is the use case for this? 00:08:29.010 --> 00:08:34.150 Like I understand HoloLens, you know, because it's like hooked into the Microsoft ecosystem and you're like, 00:08:34.150 --> 00:08:37.350 hey, send this person a message on Teams and it comes up 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:42.040 and it's like all into the ecosystem. But like, I dunno what, we've got some games over here 00:08:42.040 --> 00:08:46.010 that we're gonna try out in a second. We've got regular apps like Twitter, 00:08:46.010 --> 00:08:51.680 I guess let's open Twitter and see what's up. So I'm going to open Twitter. 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:55.900 I'm gonna reposition the window to the point where I can see most of it. 00:08:55.900 --> 00:08:59.700 And this is not the app. 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:03.390 I opened the Twitter icon and it's switched to the app. 00:09:03.390 --> 00:09:07.790 We don't, enter theater mode. I'm so confused. 00:09:07.790 --> 00:09:14.210 So it looks like all these apps over here on the left side are basically just, they'll open up like Windows. 00:09:14.210 --> 00:09:18.473 So you can use like, it's like using a desktop app. 00:09:19.690 --> 00:09:22.730 Yeah. So I opened up YouTube and here's the YouTube homepage. 00:09:22.730 --> 00:09:25.900 I can scroll with my phone screen. It's like I'm using a tablet I guess. 00:09:25.900 --> 00:09:31.430 And I have like, my phone is the cursor. I don't understand why you would ever do this. 00:09:31.430 --> 00:09:36.380 Okay. We got Spatial here. So that is an app that I know works on other VR 00:09:36.380 --> 00:09:40.230 and AR ecosystems as well. I'm not sure if it's on HoloLens. I think it is. 00:09:40.230 --> 00:09:43.270 But it definitely works on Oculus and other VR headsets. 00:09:43.270 --> 00:09:46.113 Oh, there's like a little animated thing going on. 00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:50.343 And it turned into a real person. Are you from BTS? 00:09:51.460 --> 00:09:56.720 I wish you could see this right now. People are dancing on the flat surface of the table 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.963 that is extended halfway to the camera as well. 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.480 Do I need to be here for this? They're just dancing. And now people are fighting. 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.280 There's a little elf fighting a big tiger guy. 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:15.820 And they're both wearing like samurai futuristic armor and they're using energy swords. 00:10:15.820 --> 00:10:18.323 And we won that round. 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:24.110 I will say that if you've played VR or, I mean, I guess if you've played, 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:30.233 I haven't really tried HoloLens to any significant extent. I did try, you know, a demo of these at CES as I said. 00:10:31.260 --> 00:10:34.460 If you played any sort of VR games or sort of like AR games on your phone, 00:10:34.460 --> 00:10:37.630 it's very similar except it's like having the phone here 00:10:37.630 --> 00:10:42.270 because like the field of view that I'm actually seeing is around this big. 00:10:42.270 --> 00:10:45.290 So it's like having a phone right here, 00:10:45.290 --> 00:10:48.930 but I will say that their Nebula interface 00:10:48.930 --> 00:10:53.370 which I will record here to illustrate, I will say that their Nebula interface here 00:10:53.370 --> 00:10:57.750 where you can kind of like open up apps and reposition Windows, you can make it 00:10:57.750 --> 00:11:05.580 so that it's a pretty big screen you're looking at. Like, this is like looking at probably like a 70-inch TV 00:11:06.020 --> 00:11:10.550 right in front of me. And it looks pretty sharp. Like I gotta say, that's pretty impressive. 00:11:11.394 --> 00:11:14.910 So like looking over here, I moved the screens over here. As you can see, 00:11:14.910 --> 00:11:18.890 it looks way better on like a blank wall instead of a, 00:11:18.890 --> 00:11:22.490 you know, and I can get rid of the home screen. Instead of like looking at 00:11:22.490 --> 00:11:25.143 the cameras and Mark in the background. No offense Mark. 00:11:26.550 --> 00:11:29.970 So if I play a video here, - Finally in which means... 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:35.373 - Wow. - They're ripping down the walls, they're wiring up the networking. 00:11:36.250 --> 00:11:40.460 - The video looks pretty sharp. So like, it's supposed to be a 10 ADP. 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:43.960 I'll turn the volume down now 'cause that's too loud. Okay. So like that's great news. 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.973 The speakers can get kind of loud. 00:11:48.130 --> 00:11:52.670 They sound like cheap phone speakers. Like what are you gonna do? But, I'm actually quite impressed 00:11:52.670 --> 00:11:56.763 by how sharp this video looks. Okay. You know what, Mark? 00:11:59.299 --> 00:12:03.730 This is a decent use case. Like maybe you put these on and you're watching a video 00:12:03.730 --> 00:12:10.120 and you got headphones plugged in and it's like watching it on a giant screen. 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:13.130 There's the test. I don't know if this'll show up on the video or not. 00:12:13.130 --> 00:12:17.390 But if you watch movies like this, huge, huge, negative. 00:12:17.390 --> 00:12:23.070 But like, if you manage to put your head in a vice and remain completely still, baby shark. 00:12:23.070 --> 00:12:26.660 I was able to play the games a little bit and they're like, you know, it's like a little VR game. 00:12:26.660 --> 00:12:30.540 You know, if you like playing like the fun little VR demo games, 00:12:30.540 --> 00:12:36.000 that's basically what they have so far. There are more apps and games that are available 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.790 on the play store from what I understand. This thing's 5 99, 00:12:39.790 --> 00:12:44.790 which is not horrible for like early-ish AR hardware. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.600 For consumers, if you are like not super in 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.630 to like the technical side of augmented reality and virtual reality and you're like, 00:12:54.630 --> 00:12:56.723 oh, I want a fun device. 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:02.230 No, do not. They're kind of marketing it like that, which is, I feel like a mistake. 00:13:02.230 --> 00:13:06.230 Now this is for people who are like tinker and they're really interested in augmented reality 00:13:06.230 --> 00:13:10.950 and they kind of wanna like play around and experience the jank for themselves. 00:13:10.950 --> 00:13:14.360 They've already developed the Nreal Air, 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:18.800 which is a more advanced device. I'm interested in taking a look at the Nreal Air 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:22.110 when it comes out. It's out like I said, in like Germany and Japan 00:13:22.110 --> 00:13:26.840 and stuff right now. It'll probably roll out in North America like this one did 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.350 a year later. I don't know. But it's good to see multiple companies 00:13:31.350 --> 00:13:38.610 working on augmented reality solutions. I just wish that, you know, I didn't have to review them 00:13:38.780 --> 00:13:42.380 until they're ready to party. 00:13:42.380 --> 00:13:48.790 This is cool. It's fun. I don't wanna complain, but also catch me with the air. 00:13:48.790 --> 00:13:54.013 See you next time. And see you next time on the next episode of ShortCircuit. 00:13:54.910 --> 00:13:59.290 That's what this video is. It's a channel. Subscribe if you want more of this, 00:13:59.290 --> 00:14:02.390 but also more importantly subscribe 00:14:02.390 --> 00:14:07.300 to their movie podcast and also to the Tekla, okay? 00:14:07.300 --> 00:14:12.090 Don't tell John I told you that. You cannot use this product. You are too greasy. 00:14:13.570 --> 00:14:19.760 I wish I could see what just happened, but I'm in the metaverse. ♪ Oh why don't you please tag me ♪ 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:24.477 How do I look when I do this? Do I look like a not insane person? 00:14:24.477 --> 00:14:27.587 - [Mark] Kinda like Pewdiepie. - (laughs)I look like Pewdiepie?