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What kind of tasks do you feel the Xreal "monitor" is good for? I looked at this product recently, but it seems like the resolution is basically 2x1920x1080 for the space + the screen. If you're used to using 1-2 4k monitors to look at e.g. multiple panes of text + graphs, this seems like it would be a big step backwards, like using a 10 year-old TV as a monitor. But some people seem to love it so maybe I'm missing something.


Anything you want, but of course it's all subjective. You can have up to three monitors if you're using the Nebula app, so that's three 1080p monitors. You can't see them all simultaneously though, you have to tilt your head to reveal the left and right monitors similar to how you would with real life monitors except for you don't have them in your peripheral vision. It's definitely not as crisp as a 4k monitor but I think some of the lack of resolution can be made up for by the sheer size of the screen. I am also willing to trade the lack of crispness for complete elimination of neck and shoulder ache from hunching and also the ability to have this anywhere I want. I'm planning on backpacking and doing the digital nomad thing indefinitely so this is really ideal.

One thing that has been surprising is that I thought eye strain might be a problem but I've not really had any discomfort and I've actually gone back to using light mode in the day time and dark mode at night time which is something I thought I'd never do having been using dark mode for everything for years.




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