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Hi folks, trying out the pod with a pair of Viture Luma Ultras, and running into a couple of things I do not know how to fix...

1. I see that like it's competitor, the display defaults to a type of "3D menu" with 3D elements, which I don't really care for. I wanted to set it to 2D, but I when I go into settings -> general, it does not let you select 2D and only 3D can be selected?
2. Does single screen work only with 0DoF? YOu cannot have a single display in 3DoF mode?
3. There is an app called "master inair" that when I click it I get a "device not available" ?
4. Can the main menu/etc. be resized?

Thanks for your help!

Greetings my fellow INAIR and tech enthusiasts! Tech Check 13 is back and we want to welcome you to part deuce of our series on cloud storage for the INAIR POD. We are still flying around the rabbit hole of the near endless supply of cloud storage apps. Thank you for joining us on our quest to find the worthiest cloud storage service as we filter out the ones deserving to be carbon frozen and jettisoned into deep space. There are so many cloud storage apps that this quest could go on for quite a while. All apps can be found on the Google Play Store.

As usual, these apps were dissected, interrogated, and analyzed on the INAIR POD, using a Viture Beast and Xreal One Pro. And our usual disclaimer: None of these apps sponsored this post. With that out of the way, buckle up, set your engines for hyperspace and letsa go.

Today our first stop in our search for worthiness is Filen. We downloaded the app from the app store and fired it up. First thing is first, one has to make an account (no login with Google) and activate it via an email link. Once verification was completed and we logged in, Filen asked to export our master keys just in case a cloud recovery became necessary. This was easier to do than falling down a reactor shaft.

Once inside the app there was a big add button and not much of anything else. Kinda barebones but there is still a lot to mine.

Filen is set up similar to Google Drive. Only real difference; Filen gives you 10 GB of free storage, while Google Drive gives you 15 GB.

Now it's time for the test drive. A test folder was created, the movie SoulM8te was uploaded and we let Filen do its thing. The 1.6 GB file took about 5 minutes. Not a bad parsec run. But here's the real shocker, about 4 minutes into the upload, we realized we had not been ambushed with an ad or a paywall! Oh yeah!!! While the file was uploading, Filen displayed a percentage bar with the MiB/s upload speed. Also a nice touch.

Once the upload had finished we opened the file and hit play. And… glitch. The movie played but without any sound. However, this was most likely user error, so we weren't ready to throw Filen out the airlock just yet.We tried again with a second movie, this time using an MP4 file format instead of MKV. It played and sounded perfectly. You can upload and play video files within the app itself.

While Filen may be a little barebones, it is still quite a great app. We were actually pretty impressed with it. The interface is simple, the upload speeds were respectable, and most importantly, we made it through the entire test without being bombarded with ads or upgrade requests. That is a refreshing trip through cloud storage city. Verdict: Worthy. But the most worthy? Time will tell.

Our second stop, TeraBox: 1TB Cloud & AI Space.

It all started easy enough. The first thing that pops up is the "log in with Google" button that makes signing up pretty easy. Immediate first complaint; you can't switch the view because it's clearly made for a phone. Can that be overlooked, or is it some foreshadowing?

Let's get into the guts of this app. TeraBox advertises 1024 gigs of storage. That's a pretty big promise, but will it deliver?

After logging in, you're immediately hit with a "do you want to back up photos and videos automatically" prompt. The video says "limited time free," the first indication of the expected paywalls. Yea I'll just automatically back up my photos and videos just to lose access to them if I don't pay. Kinda sounds like blackmail in my opinion. And before you can catch your breath we get an ad. It offers 2TB of storage for $4.99 a month with a 30 day trial. Thankfully, there is a skip button in the top right-hand corner.

But wait. What's this dropping out of the clouds ... ANOTHER AD! And then the real betrayal. Apparently, in 30 days, 994 of the 1024 gigs of storage quietly expire, or you can pay $0.99 a month to keep it. Yup, they used a massive bait and switch to get you to sign up just to take it away from you. Somewhere there is a certain dark cloaked sith Lord nodding approvingly. Other cloud storage apps, such as Filen may offer less storage space but at least they're not freezing your gigabytes to extort you later.

Finally get we into the app, and I'm greeted with "AI

web." search and … yup .. three more ads. This app is frustrating and at this point we have the airlock open and a finger on the jettison button.

Then we discover TeraBox runs on a coin economy. You watch more ads, play games or install other apps to earn coins. Those coins can then be used to unlock premium days, although they expire rather quickly. And, naturally, most of the useful features are locked behind a paywall. Stay away from this app. This one gets jettisoned into space. Verdict: Not worthy.

On to our third stop and final app of the evening: Cloud Storage Drive Backup App.

With 500+ downloads, a 4.1 star rating and self description claiming to be a secure, encrypted cloud storage solution, it seemed worth a look.

Cloud Storage Drive Backup was downloaded, installed and powered up. Then BAM, an immediate ambush. A paywall ad for more storage came flying right at us. We were able to swipe back off that with the touch part of the POD. Problem solved, right? Nope. We had to swipe off SEVEN MORE FREAKING ADS JUST TO GET INTO THE APP!?!?! And just when you thought you were done swiping, an ad to win more storage smashes you on the eyeballs. But finally we were in the app. Now it's time to see what this thing is made of. Heck, after all those ads we earned it.

On the free plan you get 25 gigs, which is better than most competitors offer. And of course there are two ads on the page. A click on anything and it runs through an ad circle again. There were more ads than Bespin had flatulence. At this point, we weren't testing cloud storage anymore. We were testing our ability to survive an ad apocalypse. This one gets jettisoned into space using the middle finger. Verdict: Most definitely NOT worthy.

Well revellers, we hope you enjoyed this leg of the adventure as much as we have enjoyed it. So far our contenders are Google Drive and Filen, but there are tons of cloud storage apps floating around out there. We will review what we can here and on our YouTube channel. If there are any cloud storage apps you use with the POD or would like to see us review, let us know in the comments. As always, thank you again for riding along with us. Until next time - this is Tech Check 13, signing off. We hope to see you in the next one.

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Can anyone share their experience with using the INAIR Pod to use as a way to rdp/vnc to their computer? Can you use multi screen over rdp /replicate a multi monitor setup as if you were sitting at your desk with multiple screens? Any experience on a Mac with multi monitor setup?

I’m looking to create the Viture spacewalker 3 monitor setup experience with a Remote Desktop or VNC setup.

Thanks!

I recently received the INAIR Pod, and have enjoyed the interface. It's smooth, the icons are flexible, and the number of apps available at the same time are impressive. A couple glitches here and there, but stuff that goes away the more I use it.

The most unacceptable part is that my screen is always tilted when in 3DoF/6DoF, like in the pitch/yaw/roll world, it's rolled a little to the right. I can calibrate the glasses, no change. I try to center the screen, no change. I adjust my glasses arms, no change.

It's a moderately subtle thing that must just be subconscious to where I adjust my neck to fix it, and after a while I feel my head tilted to compensate.

I've tried this on both the Luma Ultra glasses and the Viture Pro XR glasses.

Do we have the ability to offset the angles if there are some weird values adjusting the perspective? If not, can we get it?

I can see value in this if we were also able to adjust pitch/roll/yaw of each app ("window"), so we can more or less pin a wall on a window or a ceiling, or have a less important app being off to the side and tilted (thinking timer or stock ticker).

I can't get this one out of my head with >0DoF experience. It's jarring enough to take the enjoyment out of it.

Do any users or tech support have any suggestions? I've calibrated this thing several times, and have confirmed no tilt issues when using the glasses with Windows extended desktop or the Viture Neckband.

I don't think this is drift either. It doesn't gradually go tilted. It starts off that way.

Hello everyone — I’m curious if anyone who owns an inair pod who uses Apollo Artemis, could share their experience with pods decoding times while streaming.I am potentially in the market for the device, but long decoding times are a concern.

Could someone share on network 1080p 120 frames p/secons decoding times?

How do you do your set up if you require additional memory with your inair pod?

Use a dongle with additional sd card or an ssd with usb c connection?

Any other solutions?

Ive backed urxr one glasses. It has a higher resolution near 2.5k

Would inair pod when hooked up with urxr one (and their powerbank throughput for the 15w glasses input) give that higher resolution or would it go to 1080p

I am finding when I’m laying down it’s hard to use the Inair pod as an air mouse. My hands get tired. I tried a Cheerdots 2 that works on my dex phone but for whatever reason it doesn’t work with the Inair. Anyone know a great and precise input device that’s Bluetooth that you recommend for pairing with the inspire pod?

Greetings my fellow INAIR and tech enthusiasts! Tech Check 13 is back and we have once again drifted into the upper atmosphere. We dove eye brow deep into another rabbit hole! Gawd lawd... again? Yup

"So, what corner of the galaxy y'all exploring this time?" Glad you asked.

One of our biggest gripes is the need for more storage on the POD. It fills up faster than a hoover behind a shedding wookie. Since we can't magically force create more storage, we decided on the next best thing: cloud storage on the POD. All tests were done with the INAIR POD, VITURE Beast, and Xreal One Pro glasses. And all of today's apps can be found on the app store.Today we start with the golden oldies. Let's begin:

Our first port of call is the grandfather of all cloud storage and that is Google Drive.

Google Drive comes free with any Google account and a link is pre-installed on the POD. You get 15 gigs of storage on the house. But beware, your Google photos, videos, Gmail and your android phone backup data (including app data, contacts, call history and text messages) counts toward your Google free account storage limit. All this data can fill up the 15 gigs rather quickly. The 15 gigs can be expanded with a paid Google One subscription. They offer paid plans from 100 gigabytes to two terabytes for personal users. They also offer up to five terabytes for business users. This is a simple and convenient way to store, organize, and share your files while you stay firmly in the captain's chair giving you full control over who can access them.

For an extra tech tip, we highly recommend downloading Files by Google. It works as a great manager for Drive. It makes it easy to find, organize, move, and manage your files without wandering through a digital asteroid field.

Next up on our cloud hopping adventure is an oldie but …. Maybe not a goodie: Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud storage app that offers a free basic plan of 8 GB of cloud storage. There are paid plans from 500 GB to 2 TB, for those who want a bigger stake in the operation. One thing we do appreciate is that you're not having a storage war competing for control of the space with an email inbox, phone data and all the rest. The app is clean and easy to use.

Now for the turbulence.

The moment we signed in with Google, it felt like we'd wandered into a swarm of ad droids. From the second we were logged in with Google, BOOM we were hit with an ad to upgrade. Then another ad before we even made it back to the site's interface. We just walked through the door! But that wasn't the real betrayal. After logging back in, a large portion of our stored data had been deleted because it exceeded the free storage limit. Not cool Dropbox, I got a warning to log in cause I was over and I directly logged in and the data was already gone. Between the relentless ambush of ads and the unexpected massive data loss, Dropbox gets a firm "Nope" from the Tech Check 13 crew. We'll be parking this one in the scrapyard and moving on to friendlier skies.

Our final stop brings us to final cloud of the day and the one cloud service I am not a fan of: OneDrive.

Ever since Windows 11, removing OneDrive from a new computer takes much too much effort. It pops up ads, backs up things I never asked it to, and then whines about running out of storage because it decided to do something stupid like deciding my entire desktop belonged in the cloud. Maybe Android OS on the POD will be a better experience... Wrong.

Getting logged in was an adventure all by itself. It wouldn't let me put in the code to sync. The workaround was to move the cursor to the Second number, then back to the first, and I was finally in. But then I was immediately greeted by a huge ad to buy a 50 GB Microsoft 365 plan. I hit the back arrow, only to be ambushed by another ad, this time offering a 1 TB Microsoft 365 Personal subscription for $9.99 a month. Thanks, but no thanks, hard pass. After finally getting past the gauntlet of ads, I found about 3 GB of old photos it had quietly backed up over the years. Mining through my files, I was surprised when I stumbled on a list of my passwords just sitting there wide open, like someone left the communication comms unencrypted. Talk about betrayal, again. I deleted the files, uninstalled the app, and called the experiment done.

We want to thank you for joining us on this leg of the journey. We got the vintage cloud storage apps out of the way, but there are plenty more systems left to explore. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, tell us what cloud storage apps are you contemplating? Let us know in the comments, and we will review them too. We want the dirt on your cloud adventures - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Tell us everything. As always, the communication frequencies are wide open.

Again, thank you for joining us, and we will see you in the next one.

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