Gadgetory

this crazy thing that's mounted on my face is the avocado live headset it's literally blasting 720p HD video directly into my retinas and you know what it's pretty ridiculous looking and to tell the truth it's kind of uncomfortable and you know what else is pretty awesome the glove is a headset that we've seen knocking around the Kickstarter world for a little while now and now it's finally available for the not at all low price of six hundred ninety nine dollars the basic idea is simple take what looks like an oversized pair of Beats headphones and then embed a screen in the headband flip the sucker down over your eyes and bam you've got instant personal cinema but you should know what the clip is not before you understand what it actually is it is not a VR headset sure it can do some head tracking but that's not really what it's for also it's not really as 100 percent immersive as an actual VR headset you could look above and below it so you can grab a drink if there's someone sitting on the table in front of you but the glyph is really for is putting a giant screen right in front of your eyes it feels about the equivalent of a 50 or 60 inch TV in a standard living room you can use it to watch anything that you can plug into it via a standard HDMI cable I've used it to watch TV movies YouTube on my iPhone buy an adapter and to play a hell of a lot of Far Cry primal on my xbox one abakan says that the battery lasts about four hours and that's almost precisely what I got time it again in my testing you could also just use it plugged in all the time it uses micro USB to charge I really feel like the perfect place to use a glyph is on a plane you could watch movies or even use your laptop and nobody can see what you're looking at and since you're already on a plane you don't have to worry quite so much about looking like a weirdo the glyph works by shining a light on a couple million micro mirrors which then reflect the image directly into your sockets through two tiny adjustable lenses and honestly you're going to be doing a lot of adjustment with this thing when you get started there's seven or eight little fiddly knobs or switches that you need to move around the image to look just right and to make the glyph feel comfortable on your head there's swappable nose bridges rotating eyepieces to match your vision on each eye and there's even an optional headband if it weighs too much you can also adjust the brightness but there's only three settings and even the lowest setting is way too bright I have this giant rectangular square after image in my vision after I take the headset off all that adjustment is a lot of work and if you get it right it's actually amazing but 15 minutes later it may have fallen down your face a little bit or you may find it's too heavy or you may find that you have this giant bruise looking thing on your nose from wearing it for too long here's the thing though once you get all those adjustments dialed in you'll see something very cool a crisp bright HD video or video game it doesn't feel low res or jagged like most of the stuff that you see and like Google cardboard or a gear VR it just looks like HD TV right on your face with actually really good audio pumping into your ears is it all worth 700 bucks almost surely not but if the next version weighs half as much and cost half as much well color me interested no matter how crazy it looks