Sightful starts pre-sales of screenless Spacetop laptop that works with AR glasses

You'll probably be one of those people who takes their physical screen and laptop somewhere every day, we might say jokingly in ten years' time. These will mainly be buyers of the Spacetop G1 from Sightful. That start-up has created a laptop without a screen, with augmented reality glasses working as a display. That device is now on pre-sale.

Last year, the start-up Sightful showed an initial concept of the Spacetop G1, a laptop that actually consists of the bottom of a normal laptop, but has no screen. Instead, you buy AR glasses that project the screen in front of your eyes.

The Spacetop G1 itself measures 30×20.1×6.2 centimeters and weighs 1.4 kilos. The device contains a Snapdragon QCS8550 SoC with an Adreno 740 IPU and 16GB of Lpddr5 memory. The Spacetop has a full-size keyboard with 79 keys and a trackbar. The laptop's 60W battery can last eight hours, according to the company. But the laptop's specs aren't the most interesting; for that you have to go to the brill. These are glasses from Xreal, which have two OLED panels with a full HD resolution with a refresh rate of 90Hz, a 50 degree field-of-view and 42 pixels per degree per display. Xreal says the glasses can even be used with custom lenses. There are also two 6W speakers in the glasses.

Users who connect the glasses to the laptop can create their own AR environment and work in it. This is possible with Space OS, the operating system that Sightful built itself and supplies with the Spacetop and which is based on ChromeOS. The company states that it can create a 100-inch screen with the glasses, although with a FOV of 50 degrees it is questionable whether that is realistic.

Sightful is now offering the laptop for pre-sale for 1900 dollars, converted and including VAT about 2100 euros. The device will be delivered in October. In addition to the laptop, buyers also receive the glasses. However, if you do not trust those glasses or prefer to work on a traditional screen, you can also connect them to one of the two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports on the device. But who wants to live in the past when this is the future?