Rayneo air 4 pro review: awesome ar glasses at $300!
The RayNeo Air 4 Pro is a mostly minor upgrade over the 3s Pro. Users of RayNeo's previous glasses generation are not meant to get this new model. The Air 4 Pro is for those who begin their AR displays journey now.
What's great about the air 4 pro
To be honest, the HDR problem I mentioned above doesn't feel like a big deal to me, because with or without HDR – the image quality you get from these glasses is superb. At 1920 x 1080 px, the resolution doesn't impress, but still, the overall image quality is definitely among the best in this category of devices.
Compared with some other glasses of similar type, like the Xreal 1S, the RayNeo Air 4 Pro look clearer. This is especially noticeable if you're doing more productivity-focused tasks, such as reading text on a webpage. This is one of the Air 4 Pro's biggest virtues. Sure, it doesn't have convenience productivity features like anchored mode or widescreen, but it doesn't a really great job with screen clarity and text.
Continuing on the positive note, contrast and color reproduction are also great. In tandem with the very high brightness output the Air 4 Pro are capable of, images on screen are really vibrant and lively. This makes not just viewing images, but playing games a lot of fun and, yes, very immersive on the RayNeo Air 4 Pro. That Vision 4000 chip is really doing a great job here.
If there's one thing I'd like to see improved is color saturation, because RayNeo has gone a bit overboard with it. The glasses are rated at 145% sRGB coverage, and while it's perfectly fine for a display to go above 100% sRGB, at 145% thing are starting to get a bit too vibrant. Just don't enable the Color Enhancement option from the settings, because it boosts vibrancy even more. There should be a way to normalize colors a little bit, if that users wants a more color-accurate picture.
What needs to be improved
As mentioned, there are some things that can be further upgraded in the future. First on my list is higher resolution: sure, the Air 4 Pro delivers remarkable clarity for a 1920 x 1080 px device, but if that could be cranked to 2560 x 1440 px, this would make for a quantum leap in image quality. Why not be first to do that, RayNeo?
Also, there should be an option allowing you to switch to slightly more down to earth colors. Color reproduction on the RayNeo Air 4 Pro isn't completely out there, but is somewhat oversaturated. This may or may not an issue for you, depending on what you'll be using them for.
Sound is good, but for those cases where there's no one around, you should be able to crank it up a bit more, so you can enjoy it even more!
Is rayneo air 4 pro worth it?
Yes, they are worth it. At $300, the RayNeo Air 4 Pro are an inexpensive pair of display glasses that give you much of the core functionality. They aren't perfect, but they also don't have any major issues to ruin the experience. If you can reach for the Xreal 1S (available at $450) – that one will give you a lot more to play with in the way of AR features, but if you don't want to cross the $300 boundary, you'll still be able to enjoy the wearable display experience perfectly well with the RayNeo Air 4 Pro. And that, is a good thing.