The greatest attraction for me about Vision Pro is being able to have huge virtual monitors for both work and entertainment, but the downside is the discomfort of wearing one for an extended time.The Brelyon Ultra Reality Extend is a funky new monitor tech that aims to solve this problem.You don’t have to wear anything – just sit in front of a monitor, which can project a virtual display as wide as 122 inches from a much smaller physical display … Virtual monitors While you can get a huge virtual monitor experience from an affordable glasses product costing just a few hundred dollars, it falls short in a number of ways.
Most notably, the virtual monitors aren’t fixed in space, and have an annoying tendency to wander around in your field of view, requiring constant re-centering.Additionally, you can’t easily see your keyboard and trackpad, especially if you need corrective lenses.Vision Pro delivers a really high-quality virtual monitor experience, also allowing you to pin them to specific positions within your physical environment.
The drawback, however, is that the unit starts to feel both hot and heavy after an hour or so of usage.Brelyon Ultra Reality Extend immersive monitor This new monitor tech, on show at CES, aims to deliver a huge immersive monitor experience without the need to wear anything at all – you just look at/through a physical monitor in front of you.The device not only gives a virtual display much larger than its physical size, but can also create a limited degree of 3D effect, with different layers of image.
Sam Rutherford got a chance to try it, and was impressed.It’s currently clunky and even more expensive What the monitor offer is portability.The device is huge, with the physical screen measuring 30 inches diagonally, and a depth very much resembling an old-school CRT monitor.
It also costs about twice as much as Vision Pro, with a target price in the $5000 to $8000 range, depending on how many a company buys.At that kind of price, one of the most likely applications is flight simulators.In that field, an $5-8k price tag for something with a 3D effect and an immersive feel looks positively cheap.
But it’s another possible direction This is not something I’d even remotely consider buying, and definitely doesn’t meet my personal Vision Pro use-case of being able to travel light while still having huge monitors when working away from home.But what does make it interesting is that it represents another potential direction for this type of technology.This first-generation unit might be viewed much like a LISA – a massive, non-portable device with a crazy price-tag.
But we later got the PowerBook and iBook, and today have the MacBook Air.Quite how quickly this immersive monitor tech will develop remains to be seen, but I’m certainly happy to see another approach to the problem underway.Check out the video below.
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