XREAL Beam, Spatial Display Adapter/Dock, Portable TV Box for XREAL AR Glasses, Compatible with PlayStation 5/Switch/iPhone 15/SteamDeck/Mac/PC/Android/iOS/Video Glasses

Don't get discouraged over the reviews here. I never write reviews but I felt the need to express just how cool this device is. First, you need to be part of the target audience for this. It's not for the minimalist. Do your research before deciding it it's right for you. Me personally, I love that I can wear these and have the screen on the bottom right corner and to about my day with hands off the device, and glancong down at the screen. It's almost like part of your world when you keep them on while walking around the house. Meaning the xreal glasses just make everything feel more organic with this option to move the screen to one of the 4 corners. The beam as an extended battery is an awesome idea and the screen mirror on my Samsung fold works flawlessly. My phone was on my 2nd floor of my house and I was able to to all the way down to my basement and not a single hiccup on the screen. Now that's sick. Do some house chores with these on and your world will change. My only gripe is that it seems like you can only use xreals USB c cables for this device. I tried to use some really good cables including a 100w one and the glasses would not turn on. No issues using the same USB to connect directly from my steam deck to my xreal glasses but through the beam, nope. Love this product and xreal if your listening, I would be very interested in testing out your future products like the xreal 2 air pro that's in China right now!

TL;DR: Skip this purchase unless you're using the glasses strictly for Netflix and/or Prime video, and don't mind low quality versions of that content. For everything else you'll probably happier connecting your glasses directly to your preferred video streaming/gaming device. Additional cables/adapters will likely be required, but they're cheaper than this device and work better in most respects in my opinion. Note most of the time I directly connect the glasses to a device without the Beam I won't have any audio. To correct this hold the brightness+ button for about 4 seconds. Once you've heard two beeps, release the button, the glasses go dark for a couple of seconds, and when the picture comes back you'll probably have audio, but it may be very low (this button press switches between USB audio and display/passthrough audio). To change the volume, press the brightness- button for a few seconds and then release. Now the brightness +/- buttons will controll the volume instead of the brightness. It's annoying to have to do this each time you use the glasses this way, but it only takes a few moments once you get used to it. --- Pros: I'll get the two good things I can say about this device out of the way first. The "smooth follow" mode definitely does make using the glasses while riding in a car nicer. Also, if you have the problem many of us do with the corners and/or sides of the glasses looking smeared or blury, then using the Beam to shrink the virtual screen down and away from the corners can help that a little. --- Possible Pros: If you have an iPhone, Samsung, or other Miracast compatible phone, then you can cast/stream video content from your phone to your glasses using the Beam. I don't have those devices so I can't say first hand how well that solution works. But I can say that my wife tried using her iPhone that way and really didn't see the appeal. The idea that you have to look under your glasses at your phone to tell where your touching to make something happen on the glasses seems much less elegant than using something like a Roku or Google TV where you have a remote with tactile feedback so that you don't need to look at it to navigate the content on the glasses. --- Cons: 1) Unless you're in a cold room the Beam gets very hot to the touch during long sessions. And I mean HOT. So hot that I'm not sure how the plastic doesn't melt. (Definitely don't drop this thing in a backpack and just run the cables out) It even gives you a warning message on your glasses saying the unit is shutting down soon because it's too hot - then it shuts down pretty soon thereafter. If you were playing a game, you'd barely have enough time to get to a stopping point and save before it abruptly shuts off. 2) There's only one USB-C input. That input can be used to either charge the device or take video input from another device, but not both (at least not very well). I've tried three different cables/solutions to combine charging and display input into that one USB-C port and so far the best I've gotten is the newer model Fairikabe HDMI to USB-C converter cable that has a USB-C cable for power input. But, even that cable only draws 4W from the USB-C to send down to the Beam. Considering the Beam draws 18W from a normal USB-C cable during charging, the power demands are still greater than the power being delivered to it by the Fairikabe cable. So, the Fairikabe cable can help, but the Beam is still going to run out of power eventually - if it doesn't overheat and shutdown first (they may have intentionally designed it with only one USB-C port just to avoid more heat from charging and video processing at the same time). 3) Using the Beam by itself would be a good experience if there were more apps and they worked in a higher resolution. Currently there's only Netflix, Primve Video, and VLC player for those geeky enough to download videos to the device to play offline. And none of the usual Google services or components are included on the devices. So even side loading YouTube isn't really an option. On top of that, the Netflix and Prime Video apps play in lower than HD resolution (sometimes looking passible, but often looking like old SD television). From what I've read on the issue, it all stems from the fact that all the big players in streaming require special chipsets (DRM/Widevine) to prevent piracy before they'll allow HD content. Supposedly the Beam doesn't have those chipsets. If that's true, then streaming services are never going to look any better using the Beam on its own so it will never be an option for me. Now that I've noticed the low resolution I can't unsee it. I'd rather cram a bunch of cables, adapters, and power bank together to connect a Roku or Google TV to the glasses than to use the Beam for watching Netflix/Prime. 4) Using the Beam with gaming is a bit laggy. Even using something as simple as a side scrolling platformer like Dead Cells, if you compare the experience of using the glasses directly connected to the console (using the previously mentioned Fairikabe cable), and then with the Beam connected between the console and the glasses, there's a slight delay between button presses and their respective actions on screen when you're using the Beam. There's also a bit of screen stutter during moments where the whole screen moves too quickly. This is no doubt due to the extra processing being done on the video source by the Beam to allow use of its "spacial display" features: slow follow, body lock, etc. --- Conclusion: I'm not sure what XREAL was thinking with this device. More baffling to me than selling it with all these shortcomings in place is that, knowing all these shortcomings, they didn't release an updated model of the Beam with the recent updated model of their glasses. If they do release a new version of the Beam with these issues corrected, I'd be happy to give it a try. But, I'd advise everyone steer clear of this version. I've spent almost as much on cables and adapters trying to power this thing while using it with a better streaming device than I did on the Beam itself. And, considering it overheats anyway, I think I'd rather just use those cables and adapters to connect a better streaming device directly to the glasses and leave the Beam at home. I wish I'd sent it back during my refund window.

I was very excited when I got my glasses as a present. I was so bummed when I used them and the screen by defualt is so big that you can't see the entire screen without moving the glasses around. I had to pick if I wanted to see the top of the screen or the bottom of the screen when I played games. Its not that you can't physically see it, but its blurry. The sides have the same issue as well. I play WoW and I have to change my interface around and basically put everything closer to the center of the screen so I could see it all without moving the glasses around.......Anyways, the beam solved all those problems. Being able to change the screen size has been the best pro so far. I was able to reduce the screen size and move the screen farther away from me. Now I can see the entire screen at once. Using body anchor mode I can just keep the screen full size and move my head around the see the top, bottom and sides clearly. Not sure if it was mentioned but apparently you can download apps to the beam as well. I used Netflix with just the beam and glasses the other day to watch a movie. Thats the downside though. Not sure if its a beam issue or app issue but the video would sometimes get pre 2000's webcam quality. Audio never had an issue but the video would shutter. You can use the beam as a pointer when using apps, and that seems to be the biggest time when the video will shutter. With the right adapters you can charge it while using it, depending on what you're using it on. However it is very slow and will eventually die anyways over long usage. I put it to the test last weekend and I was able to play WoW with the Beam and glasses for 8 hours before the Beam said it was overheating and needed to shut off. I let it cool down and it still have 21% battery remaining. My only complaint is that Xreal should have just included these features in the glasses and not make us buy another device.

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Entiendo que al inicio las capacidades estaban muy limitadas pero desde que se pueden instalar apps de Android este aparato le ha dado un gran valor a los lentes XReal. Originalmente los compré para jugar Nintendo Switch pero ahora lo utilizo principalmente para ver películas sin conexión a internet. En los vuelos he podido ver horas y horas de contenido en gran calidad y también ver películas de mi videoteca personal. Nunca me han fallado y la batería dura suficiente para ver al menos 3 películas. Lo recomiendo muchísimo

If you have a pair of Xreal Air or Air 2, you need that thing to connect to everything and do more with your AR glasses, but else than that it is not impressive in tech or feature. It become very hot very fast, burn batteries in no time, and it feels like a tech that was made 5-10 years ago... I regret buying Air 2 glasses, and hope the next Xreal generation will be better and won't require the beam.

It's interesting to watch Netflix with only this device and the Xreal glasses. I like it a lot. But... This thing becomes so hot I have a hard time keeping it in my shirt pocket. Also, for whatever reason, playing games from my gaming laptop through the Beam is next to impossible to play. It's like playing in 20 fps per seconds. The image is so choppy... But the laptop itself plays all games very nicely, so the problem comes surely from the Beam. Netflix and gaming were the most 2 things I wanted to do with it. So, kind of a bummer for me. Anyway... I guess I'll keep it even if I'm not totally satisfied with it because watching movies with this thing is quite nice.

Unless you don't own a tv don't even bother with it or the glasses. An incomplete product and not worth the price. I got a quest 2 after buying it and it made me regret ever buying the xreal