RayNeo Air 4 Pro Supports HDR10 On The Low End - DTNS 5225

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2:08Huyen Tue Dao: This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 13th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.

2:16Jason Howell: Today, Jason, this guy right here shares his thoughts on the Rayneo Air 4 Pro budget display glasses.

2:23Huyen Tue Dao: Budget? Don't tune out. Display glasses? Interesting. What are they even for? We're going to talk about it. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Huyntwood Howell. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

2:36Huyen Tue Dao: All right. I just figured we could spend a little time talking about display glasses. We've definitely talked about smart glasses on the show in the past. This is a real focus of my work this year is really understanding this kind of emerging technology. And I did just finalize my review of some glasses that just released here in the U.S., the Rayneo Air 4 Pro display glasses. So we can talk a little bit about what that actually means, you know, why you might want display glasses, that sort of stuff. But might as well kind of dive into these glasses to begin with. Rayneo did send me these, though, just for review.

3:10Huyen Tue Dao: So my opinions are my own, all that kind of stuff. First, First, important to know, these are not AR glasses. A lot of times you'll see display glasses advertised as AR glasses. And I always think that's kind of funny because there's no interaction with what you're seeing through the display and the world. You know, it's literally just a couple of displays that are right in front of your eyes, but inside a pair of glasses. What they do is they plug into any video source that supports video out through USB-C. So DisplayPort, so smartphones, laptops, gaming systems. It works with like the Nintendo Switch 2, for example.

3:48Huyen Tue Dao: And it kind of makes it good for focus. It also makes it a solid choice for travel, that sort of stuff. These glasses in particular, the Air 4 Pro, are on the lower price tier of the ones that I've checked out over the past six months or so. These are$299. Rayneo does have like a sale going on right now for$249. But they're kind of that price range that doesn't feel so far out there. That's like, yeah, I don't even know why I'd want that. I don't even know why I'd pay that money for it. $249,$299 kind of feels accessible. So you can start considering this. You know, I have a whole pile of glasses over here that I've tested.

4:25Huyen Tue Dao: And many of them are like twice as much. And they definitely have features to occupy that. But the key differentiator here with the Air 4 Pro is HDR10 support. To my knowledge, the first display glasses that support HDR10 through the video port. So I think the important thing to realize here is just because your phone, like when you pick up your phone, it's like, oh, it's got HDR support. That doesn't necessarily mean it's going to pass HDR through the USB-C port into the glasses. Your display might be able to show HDR content, but that doesn't necessarily automatically mean that you could pass that signal, that kind of upgraded dynamic range signal through to glasses or a display like this.

5:11Huyen Tue Dao: So like the Galaxy S26 Ultra didn't pass any HDR through. The Pixel 10 didn't pass through. The only thing I had that would do it was a MacBook Pro, and I had to activate that in settings, and it all worked and looked great. I'm told that the new iPhones can do this but important that if you're considering this for that very reason you're gonna want to be darn sure that it actually supports HDR through through that port it is a little bit of a trade-off though if you're passing HDR through to the glasses refresh goes from 120 Hertz to 60 Hertz you're cutting it in half and that might be important if you're planning on gaming with these like with the switch to which does support the hdr out the usbc um otherwise you know they're comfortable they're lightweight there's a partnership with bang and olofsson for the audio there's four speakers they sound pretty good um the displays do look good though there is a little bit of edge clipping uh for horizontal stuff like a like a pc desktop or whatever down in the corners it's clipped and i think that has something to do with like facial structure and where the glasses fit on your face but that's a little mini review of the glasses themselves I'm kind of more interested beyond just these glasses because I've kind of told you most that there is to know about them about like the category at large because it does feel like this is a category that is building not just smart glasses but like display glasses there's a lot of excitement for them I'm wondering if you have any use or or like scenarios where you're like oh you know what that would be really handy for this or maybe you have some yeah so my husband has some I

6:47Jason Howell: don't know what what what display glasses he has i messaged him as he started talking like hey honey what which ones do you have but he uses them all the time uh on planes in bed at night which i don't know whether that's healthy for you or not because presumably there's still blue light entering your eyeballs but he really loves them um and and to be honest i i think i would definitely use them for gaming i also have my very good colleague at work he lives in new york but he has to fly out to california a lot for our work together on our team so he he doesn't have he He didn't have display glasses.

7:17He has the Vision Pro, which he brings with him on a flight.

7:20Jason Howell: He says it's the only reason. It's like, I think he finds it one of the times he can justify actually bringing his Vision Pro around. But he did. And that's no small feat.

7:29Huyen Tue Dao: I mean, that thing takes up space.

7:32Jason Howell: I mean, a six-hour flight feels like, yeah, okay, that seems to justify it. But he did actually, last time we went to California together, he sent me and our other teammate a screenshot of what he's seeing. And it's like a full desktop, right? He had Slack where he was chatting with us. He had his window open to do work. And I do think that's really interesting. So I think both for gaming and for work, I might consider this because one thing that we're having problems with at work is desk space. And so a lot of times, especially when we're traveling, even though we're together, so we're co-working in person, there's not a lot of desk space.

8:06Jason Howell: So that means there's also not a lot of monitor space. So it would be nice. Wouldn't it be, would I look like a dork sitting at a couch at work, but being able to like have a full having my display glasses on and being able to actually have like a more ergonomic setup at least for my brain even if it's not for for my body and i just recently

8:23Huyen Tue Dao: oh sorry go ahead no i was just gonna say like i don't know that you would or if you if you would look like a dork as you say like that might be kind of that might be changing you know like yeah On an airplane wearing the Apple Vision Pro, thank you. That's a big setup. And definitely that's getting people, people are going to notice that. If you're watching the video version, which you can get to through the Daily Tech News show YouTube channel, wearing these, this whole category is really working to make the form factor really seem just like a normal pair of glasses, or in this case, sunglasses.

9:05Huyen Tue Dao: They tint the lenses because that stops as much light passing through. And so it makes the displays look a little better. I think there's even like a lens cover that comes with this kit that I don't know where it is right now. But something like this on an airplane. Yeah. You know, are some people going to notice? Yeah, but probably not as much as a Vision Pro, you know. No, which is, yeah. Yeah. Which is a big stunking thing in your head.

9:27Jason Howell: No, I'm actually really, I'm actually now in this conversation we're having, I'm kind of inspired because also for gaming, you know, nowadays we have a lot of very capable handhelds. You know, handhelds aren't just for kind of lower end gaming or like, you know, more like Nintendo games. But, you know, your Steam decks, your ROG allies, they can handle very significant games. So I played Baldur's Great 3, like almost exclusively on my Steam deck. And I'm actually starting a playthrough again. And what I'm really noticing is that I did play on my PC quite a bit, not because the Steam deck, like, performance was lacking, but because I wanted to see in fine detail a lot of the stuff that was happening on the screen.

10:04Jason Howell: And so that's like the balance of it, right? Because I think that's one thing that these handhelds don't quite get, can't capture, is an immersive experience where you can fully enjoy like a lot of like the beautiful graphics that so many, you know, AAA and even not so AAA games have. And that's actually something I've been actually frustrated with with this run through is because everything is so teeny tiny. And whether that's more from a tactical perspective of being able to see like what's around me or just being able to really enjoy the story and the storytelling elements, I've been missing that.

10:34Jason Howell: And I'm just like not in a position I've been traveling a butt ton, a metric butt ton that's like an actual scientific measurement. And so I can't really compromise with playing with my PC all the time because I'm just literally not in front of it. But I'm actually now really, really excited about these two use cases that I just thought of just now while we're talking about it.

10:56Huyen Tue Dao: I think if you're traveling a lot, this is something to consider for your travel kit. Now, I will say, just so you know, and I'm sure others are wondering, you're talking about planting multiple displays and everything. That was in relation to the Vision Pro. These glasses cannot do that, at least not out of the box. They have an XR app, and I think even that is only capable of very minimal things, and it's not a very good app, to be honest. But these are lower-end devices, right? I also have the Vichur Beast. I think these are in the$550 range. And the Xreal 1S, which can do screen pinning, so you can pin displays in certain parts of the view.

11:38Huyen Tue Dao: And I think depending on the software you're running, you can pin multiple displays and stuff. So it's kind of the general direction of where these things are heading is this convergence between true AR and XR features into the simple, like oh it's just a display on your face and that's what has me really interested is is that these glasses are going through something similar to what we've seen with smartphones where wireless charging used to be a premium feature and now we're seeing it on mid-tier devices and probably low-tier devices eventually you know it it starts to condense and compress and these features come all the way down so um some you know right now this is an entry point glasses that is the first to have HDR10, you know, maybe that becomes a standard.

12:21Huyen Tue Dao: It's just interesting to watch it all develop.

12:23Jason Howell: I also think for 250, that's a, it's, I mean, it's not cheap, it's not cheap, cheap, cheap, but it is, it is something that I think I can invest in. And even if I can't pan multiple windows, just having a larger screen and especially for the gaming, as I said, being able to be immersed when I'm gaming would be a lot, especially when I'm traveling and presumably like the case you held up looked like, I mean, it's not the smallest glass case I've ever seen, but it's definitely packable oh that actually is pretty i mean this is for the rate yeah yeah that's actually really decent it's like maybe a glass like a regular glass case and a half or something like

12:57Huyen Tue Dao: that yes it's a little larger than your standard glass case because it also fits the um the cable inside okay so yeah so i think like i'm actually i'm actually really really super interested in

13:07Jason Howell: 250 to be honest with you doesn't seem like a bad price point to start just to get a little bit more usability out of my like more portable devices i'm actually pretty excited i might actually i might actually go for those just because like i know like i'm pretty sure my husband has a vitter the vitter the vitter the vitter i'm pretty sure that's what he has for some reason that

13:28Huyen Tue Dao: that's like what is is flashing my mind that's definitely a higher end like 500 600 so i don't

13:34Jason Howell: know 250 for something that is like i'm not going to be using it constantly but that can make my travel life easier and maybe even make me like have have me enjoy my gaming better seems like not a bad investment to be honest with you so yeah let me know how it goes i'll be curious all right well um we want to thank you so much for joining us and of course dtns this show right here is made possible by you the listener so we want to take time to thank miranda janelle that charlie dude and justin zellers y 'all are awesome you know it but we like to tell you anyways

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17:01Huyen Tue Dao: All right, there is actual news that we need to know today, so let's get to the briefs.

17:06Jason Howell: All right, well, Meta has delayed the release of its new major AI model, which is codenamed Avocado, from March to at least May, according to New York Times sources. So internal tests have shown it's trailing top systems like Google Gemini 3.0 in reasoning, coding, and writing. Leaders of Meta's AI division have also considered temporarily licensing Gemini to power Meta's AI products, not unlike other folks like Apple. So all of this happens as Meta continues to spell... So all of that aside, you know, this is all happening while Meta continues to spend billions on hiring top AI researchers and building out data centers to support its super intelligence drive.

17:45Jason Howell: So hedging all bets, question mark?

17:48Huyen Tue Dao: I mean, it's just really interesting, right, to see a company like Meta throwing around literal hundreds of billions of dollars on its AI strategy and going on this huge hiring thing. And then, you know, for the, and mind you, this is just, you know, sources to New York Times, but who are basically saying, oh, they're considering, you know leaning in Gemini because they are quite there it's like even all the money in the world can't get you to the model I also find it interesting that the goal of these companies this might sound so totally stupid and basic but that the goal of all these companies is always you know perform better than the latest model by the competitors right out of the gate they're all playing this game of keep ahead yeah and it and if they're not gonna release and be better then we might as well just hold on to it and wait and you know even if they do wait they're going to come out with their model it's going to do great on a handful of benchmarks and they're going to get those headlines and then like a week later open ai is going to release it's and its version that's going to you know top it and everything it's just it's dizzying keeping up with it all

18:51Jason Howell: it you're you're really it's it's it's weird because i feel like sometimes in tech we talk about like weird cold wars like i'd even say like apple versus android which we're very familiar with feels more like kind of like a traditional style of a competition where it's like a broad you know winning hearts and minds kind of thing and that kind of stuff but yeah it is it is insane to try to keep up with this and this weird like one-upmanship it feels very 2026 i don't know for some reason i'm associating this with like the current culture of like looks maxing and trying to be first to everything it feels like the companies are somehow either this is just our our mindset as a society or somehow like the zeitgeist the trend setting is is just like it is is kind of applied to this like new age of like ai models and agreed it just seems insane to just put so much capital into trying to be on top as long as possible but as long as possible is like oh god days weeks microseconds microseconds yeah um just that's insane it is insane it is

19:56Huyen Tue Dao: insane. Well, Peacock, is Peacock on top? I'm not sure. Peacock is hedging its bets of the mobile experience and kind of putting some more work into its mobile effort as opposed to just being an on the TV app sort of thing. And so the company previewed a new algorithmically driven vertical video feed function inside of the app, the new app, the update, with TikTok style short clips, casual games to complement its more standard streaming features as well. So they unveiled something called Your Bravo Verse. Oh my goodness. To be in the room when they came up with that, they probably thought they were so brilliant.

20:37Huyen Tue Dao: I read that in my eyes. You could hear them rolling in my head. Uses computer vision and agents to stitch together personalized Bravo clip playlists narrated by a generative Andy Cohen avatar. Andy Cohen is the host of some of the Bravo live shows and stuff. Oh my goodness. Okay. Also announced where AI cropped vertical NBA streams instead of courtside live. So that shows that they're really thinking about their content, not as a only locked into horizontal on a TV sort of thing, but, oh, we can make this very vertical friendly and vertical translates to mobile phones smartphones for gaming peacock is adding titles like law and order clue hunter public eye from wolf games and uh jeopardy trivia so you know at the end of the day it's all about engagement right oh my god we um i think yesterday

21:33Jason Howell: tom and i in one of the shorts covered disney plus is doing verts you know vertical video like Like, oh gosh, it feels like, so I guess, especially as someone who's like actively a content creator, are you, are you, what do you, is, is shorts, vertical video, whatever you want to call them, is it table stakes now? And as, as much as we're rolling our eyes at some of this, and I honestly, like maybe as an old person, I really do wish some things weren't vertified, shortified, just because between landscape and portrait, there's a lot of missing space there. But should we also give them credit in that short form content, vertical video is just the thing now, do you think?

22:16Jason Howell: Oh, yeah.

22:17Huyen Tue Dao: I mean, I think that's undeniable that, yes, have I been in this industry long enough to still have a hang up around vertical versus horizontal? I've gotten over it largely, and especially in the last couple of years, simply through running my own content business and recognizing like, oh, wait a minute, I can't reach everyone if I just focus on horizontal. It really just depends on your approach and what you're going for. And I think a company, a media company like Peacock has to be in a position where it looks not at the way things have been done, but at the way thing, at the signals that are out there of the way that people are looking to consume content.

22:55Huyen Tue Dao: And there's no question that there is a very, very large percentage of people that do not care nearly as much, if at all, about horizontal content. They don't even watch TV. They're always on their phone. And if you're on your phone and you're watching horizontal content, that's not a good experience either. And so, yes, I suffer from the longevity factor around horizontal video too, but I've really fought over the last couple of years to push myself out of that and just recognize like nothing stays the same. These priorities do change over time. and am i going to be with the wave or writing against it all right well fair enough so we'll

23:34Jason Howell: start we won't give peacock any poop and no peacock peacock poop for about vertical videos but um somebody watch that you know ai generated andy cohen and let us know if it's the real thing

23:46Huyen Tue Dao: yeah that one i'm kind of like oh i don't know about that all right well we have to thank modang

23:52Jason Howell: in our subreddit for this one pointing out another great story that we are going to talk about So Sony is A-B testing dynamic pricing on the PlayStation Store, showing different prices for the same PS5 games depending on who is logged in. Push Square spotted evidence that shows how Assassin's Creed Unity, which was just updated to support 60 FPS, and as such is in higher demand, jumps from, wait for it, 3.74 British pounds sterling for logged out users to $999. sterling for users who are logged in while browsing so almost three times as much according to ps prices research the test spans about 139 games across 68 countries excluding the us uk consumer law says that this practice is legal if pricing and disclosures on past prices are transparent and that does align with sony's recent implementation of a 30-day lowest price label throughout the store.

24:52Jason Howell: Sony has yet to comment publicly on the practice.

24:58Huyen Tue Dao: I feel like sometimes this happens. I mean, isn't this kind of known to be the case sometimes with like Amazon? Like I feel like I've experienced it on Amazon or it's like depending on which account I'm logged in, it's a different price and it's always weird. And then with airlines too.

25:14Jason Howell: I was going to say flights. Yeah.

25:15Huyen Tue Dao: And anytime it happens, anytime it happens and you notice that it happens if you don't notice well you don't notice you got the price you got and you're fine you know it's like you're none the wiser but if you notice man it's just a yucky feeling and uh so i get it i get why people are really not happy about this it is also though a test like it's yes there is no there is no indication at this time that sony is saying this is what we are going to do going forward but when they're testing something like this you have to wonder well if that happened And how would I feel when I continue buying my games through that the PS store?

25:50Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, I don't know.

25:51Jason Howell: I feel like so many times, especially talking about like Android features. We have so many folks that want to be in on the test, want to be in on getting the new feature. And I can assuredly say this is one of those where people would probably like it less. I did. I did try to find screenshots of this 30 day lowest price labels and it looked like it was a tool tip even. And I looked at it and to be honest, I get what is happening here where they are putting that information out there but in my opinion it's in the way that it goes by the letter of the law but is also not quite obtuse but it also like if i saw that i would kind of be confused and if i really wanted to play a game i would just play it you know what i mean like which yuck and maybe that's on me to be more careful with my purchasing obviously but also yuck

26:44Huyen Tue Dao: yuck yeah well speaking of yuck no i'm just kidding um maybe actually it could be yuck we'll find out amazon is upgrading its alexa plus personality profiles to include a new sassy option uh that's meant for adults okay but just you know it's okay everyone amazon isn't going full grok with this they're not going nsfw themes and that sort of stuff the voice chat personality will be allowed to swear, roast users, use more mature humor in its communication, that sort of stuff. The updated profile is going to block sexual content, hate speech, self-harm topics, illegal activity, and personal attacks.

27:25Huyen Tue Dao: So this doesn't mean that all that other stuff is going to suddenly start. Users who wish to activate the sassy, I have to say it that way, sassy profile, will need to complete an additional verification step in the Alexa app on iOS for example using face ID I suppose I don't know if there's like a driver's license or some other you know aspect to that the feature is unavailable whenever Amazon kids is enabled on the account and Amazon says the new profiles built on a single premise help first judge always

27:59Jason Howell: I literally facepalmed while you were reading that.

28:03Huyen Tue Dao: Did you? Why?

28:05Jason Howell: I don't understand.

28:07Huyen Tue Dao: You don't want these things to have a personality.

28:09Jason Howell: I don't know. Also, how should I interpret the help first judge always? Is it the Alexa is judging me and thereby we sass - That's how I interpret that.

28:25Huyen Tue Dao: I don't know if that's what they meant, but I guess they're saying, no matter what, the ALEXA, we've already said it a million times. Sorry in advance, everybody. ALEXA is, by Amazon's admission, still going to help you out as their primary function. But they'll do it with a little sass and maybe a little judgment along the way. But they won't personally attack you, but they will roast you. That was the part where I was like, hmm, what's the difference between those two? because they can kind of walk in similar pathways.

28:58Jason Howell: Does this feel like the Steve Buscemi meme of him coming in and be like, hello, my fellow kids, like wanting ALXCA to be cool? I also, a more interesting example would be Interstellar, where the TARS robot and Matthew McConaughey is like, hey, tone down your sarcasm to like 20 % or something. Maybe if they had that feature, that would be neat. Or like humor. Okay, like take humor from 70 % to 40%, please. that would be fine um i'm sorry yeah hello kids take it down to zero percent plenty of people have probably said it there we're good but i i get it it feels like we just really want these things to be personable and human-like and we'll leave it at that not for me sassless i'll take sassless um all right well maybe you maybe you not aren't into sass but maybe you want some snaz like a snazzy gift for coworkers and colleagues.

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31:17Huyen Tue Dao: All right, we got plenty of quick headlines that are good to know. Might make you look really smart at the dinner table tonight.

31:24Jason Howell: All right, well, Canadian business processing company Telus Digital confirmed a major breach alleging that the Shiny Hunters hacking group used stolen cloud credentials to break into its systems for months, exfiltrated nearly one petabyte of customer and business data and demanded$65 million to avoid leaking the information to the public.

31:43Huyen Tue Dao: That was a whole lot of customer and business data. Shantanu Narayan, who is Adobe's CEO since 2007, so quite a long time, is now confirmed by the company to be stepping down. But once a successor for that role is chosen, so not quite yet, but they got to pick who's going to be coming in in his place, he will remain as board chair once that happens.

32:09Jason Howell: Well, Uber is reactivating its Las Vegas Robotaxi service using the Hyundai-backed Motional Ioniq 5 autonomous vehicles, appearing as standard Uber rides with no extra cost for passengers. Hmm.

32:25Huyen Tue Dao: Do you trust it? Well, let us know. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Tinder is overhauling its app to include AI-driven matching, a new events tab for curated local events. so like irl events whoa who would have thought and piloting a video driven speed dating feature for users in los angeles at least to begin with oh man if you like zoom breakout rooms there you go zoom breakout rooms with speed dating thrown in i yeah interesting let us know if you try it

32:53Jason Howell: gotta keep yourself relevant yes exactly all right well amazon speaking of is rebranding its ad free option as the new prime video ultra tier raising its u.s price to 4.99 per month starting april 10th

33:08Huyen Tue Dao: china has cleared the first commercial brain computer interface device a system from boroy kang medical technology probably said that wrong that uses wireless brain implants and a glove to restore hand grasping ability in adults with very specific spinal cord injuries that's

33:27Jason Howell: interesting wow definitely future sci-fi type stuff right there amazing all right well a new study by researchers at cornell university suggests that biased ai autocomplete suggestions in writing tools can slowly influence the way people think and shift their beliefs over time

33:43Huyen Tue Dao: people relying on these autocorrect and stuff and over time the little corrections can go ahead and implant thoughts or something i don't know that's weird interesting i would like to read more into that apple is cutting app store commissions in china to 25 for paid apps and 12 for long-term subscription renewals in response to discussions with chinese regulators all that takes effect march 15th so in a couple of days all right well the fbi is investigating a hacker who allegedly

34:12Jason Howell: published at least seven steam games with hidden malware on players pcs over the last two years in titles like Pirate Fly and... Pirate Fi, not Pirate Fly. Pirate Fi and Block Blasters.

34:29Huyen Tue Dao: Block Blast is an app that my kids play all the time, but this is not the same thing. This is very different. I wonder how good those games actually are, or if it's obvious, like, wow, this is a piece of crap. And I feel like it's because it's malware. We end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Yesterday, the team, that is you and Tom, speculated that the medical equipment manufacturer did not have patient data, but Erwin has direct experience with a reason why it might have.

34:58Jason Howell: Yeah, and Erwin writes, So I'm an end user of Stryker's total hip replacement. Liked it so much I have two. In order to get the correct size, my hospital had to take x-rays of my existing hips, and I believe they sent them to Stryker for analysis so they could correctly select the six different components and deliver them with the specific tools to saw and clean out the femur to the precise depth and width. This x-ray data could be some of patient data that was lost. note striker says oh sorry and this is a this is a note from from uh kind of from a follow-up from a follow-up um announcement from striker that that's correct right yeah i said that right yep yeah uh okay so note striker says our connected products are not impacted and are safe to use and noted that there are only quote disruptions to order processing manufacturing and shipping well that's a lot though i mean erwin to your point if i mean and then like to your point though that in the process of ordering your specific you know hip replacement that there was some data in there so i suppose we still have room for speculation on whether there's like ancillary ancillary or corollary i don't know what the right which one of those words is the correct one to use here, but that there, I, I agree that there might be some still room for concern without any kind of definitive and extensive, you know, cataloging or inventory of what data did get, did get wiped.

36:25Jason Howell: So, but thank you so much for letting us know, uh, a current, a possible issue. Uh, and yeah. Yeah.

36:34Huyen Tue Dao: Thank you, Aaron. Appreciate it. All right.

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