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Nreal Air support in Monado

Over the last months (from April to September) I tinkered around with an Nreal Air. It’s an augmented reality device, essentially a pair of glasses with displays projecting a virtual content into your view. You can connect it to your phone, console or PC via a USB-C cable. Then in theory you can have 360° virtual monitors. But the whole package had a slight flaw. The manufacturer only targets Android, iOS, macOS and Windows with an own proprietary SDK and an app. So even the community on those platforms wasn’t entirely happy with that. Why did I get such a device then? Well, I’ve seen a review of it and it was mentioned to support the Steam Deck. So naturally I thought if any device running GNU/Linux is supported in any way at all, I could likely get it to work with every device running GNU/Linux. Then I received the actual hardware and I had no officially supported device other than my Steam Deck. But with that it worked, right? Well some functionality worked great out of the box. I