Avegant AG101R - GLYPH VIDEO HEADSET

Pros:-Sturdy design-Good picture quality (with qualifiers). 1280x720 is the max resolution, but it's a very clear 1280x720-There was no "screen door" effect that I could notice-Decent soundCons:-Lenses are FAR too small. Should have been 25% - 50% larger-Unacceptably poor viewing angle. When looking straight through the lenses, the focal point is at the top of the screen, notthe center.-No way to adjust the screen position to center it on the lens focus point.-No built in brightness adjustment.

I am a gamer.I am also married.My wife often wants me in the same room as her regardless of what she is watching.I don't watch TV anymore so my solution was putting a monitor on a chair and hooking up my PS4 or Xbox to it and game with head phones.After watching the movie ready player one, I was wondering if we had advanced enough to have some thing similar.We have.Most products are 300 dollars plus.These were not as expensive.The quality is not 1080PHowever for a gamer's solution it is greatThey charged while I was gaming (USB Port on PS4)They have decent quality for the price and my range of vision was good.They are a bit heavy, and my nose got some tired but not unbearable.Have not tested the battery life, my next step so I did not put a rating.Hooked it up to my iPhone with the lightning to HDMI adapter and watched Netflix, worked flawlessly.Hooked it up to a computer and it worked flawlessly with soundWonder how it would look with a phone connected to a drone!!Anyway, practical use as a monitor is good.Quality could be some better but for the price, im not complaining.Being able to ride a train or plain and use these give a great level of privacy.You will have to adapt to the eye pieces, at first it looks like your looking through binoculars.This was my Christmas present from my wife, for any tech who has it all... Try these.-Shaun Striet

I got this primarily to play games without distracting family members with sound and to have a more immersive experience. It works quite well, and I joke that I look like Geordi La Forge from TNG while wearing it. I have very poor eyes and am incredibly nearsighted, but the Glyph is able to be adjusted to my eyes. However, the overall comfort of the Glyph isn't all that great. Wearing the included head strap is a must, and in my experience, my eyes start to get a little tired after a few hours of use. The picture is quite crisp, and while the only 720P, I wasn't really able to discern individual pixels. The color accuracy of the device is fine. However, I started seeing some artifacts on the screen, similar to CRT burn-in, resulting in a little bit of lost quality. This was especially apparent in games like FIFA, where both the camera and players are constantly moving.The audio quality is just OK. My $60 MA390 earbuds sound nicer, though I didn't buy this device for the audio quality. They sound a lot like your standard Skullcandy Grind or similar.Battery Life is passable at best. Plugging in the device while playing is iffy unless you have a separate USB power source. My laptop treated the USB connections as a mouse, messing up my game a fair bit, making me wait for the device to fully charge before I could resume my gaming session.Overall, it's an excellent proof-of-concept, but I think it may have needed a little more work before it was released to the public.

I like the Avegant Glyph for several reasons. Those reasons are:1- It’s lightweight. It’s very lightweight and comfortable to wear specially if you compare it to other head mounted devices out there.2- There aren’t a ton of cables. You can simply plug in the mini HDMI to HDMI and that’s that. Some other head mounted devices require that you connect a small box with the headset.3- It does the job for what I need it for. I use it as a monitor a lot. It’s comfortable enough to wear for hours. The picture quality is really good for the price. I had a higher end head mounted device with better picture quality but the weight on my head was just too much.4- Battery life. Great battery life. It lasts for about 4 hours, and it charges pretty fast when connected to the computer via its USB port. Sometimes I use it and charge it at the same time and it doesn’t overhead or anything. That was a big selling point for me because I have an oculus rift and thought of getting an oculus go, but the oculus go’s battery life is of only 2.5 hours. The Glyph surprised me with its battery life.The one thing I didn’t like much was the sound quality. It’s fine when you have something playing or when you’re playing a game, but if it’s not playing any audio you can hear a constant background noise coming from the headset. It doesn’t bother me that much, but I know other head mounted devices that don’t have that problem.Still, of all the head mounted devices I own this is the one I use the most, it’s comfortable, easy to set up, and has a very decent picture quality.

I love this think and I show everyone. It's perfect for most visual tasks. But I did have a few issues when I need to read something on the edges of the screen like in Windows, Pubg maps or weapons and browsing. It's hard to see the Windows start bar at times.Id like an option to zoom out more, since most content is made square but you're doing everything round. I'd like to move the screen away from my eyes a little so I can read the edges more.Also need other features turned on and setup like Bluetooth.