u/Canatee

My daily step goal is 10k, but I generally hit 12-15k, with a stride length of 80cm meaning I tend to hit 10km distance. Depending on the day, most of that is walking outside in nearby forests and whatnot, especially on weekends. After 5+ years of that I've run out of audio books and got the Xreals to watch videos instead. It works well, but I've had to gradually tweak and mod the setup in various ways. This is what I currently have:

• Xreal One Pro M with silicon ear hooks (1) and jawbreaker nosepad (2)
• Alpaka Modular Sling V2 with some essentials in the inner pocket, Beam Pro in the outside magnetic pocket (flap tucked away) (3), and either 500ml Memo Bottle A5 water bottle (5) or mini umbrella (6) depending on the weather - also in the inner pocket. I can also use it for a power bank if needed.
• The sling's shoulder strap is modified with anti-slip tape (4) to control position on shoulder and a velcro padding thing I have on my chest (instead of the shoulder where it's intended to be). There's an attachment ring for a Nite Ize S-biner I hot glued to the Xreal cable as a strain reliever (7) and a elastic hair band (8) that I can hang the glasses from. There's also a Satechi Media Button Bluetooth remote (9) for controlling playback.

The Beam Pro is too big to comfortable sit in my pocket on walks, so this puts it out of the way while making it easier to access and providing a lot of other utility.

The Beam Pro is great, other than the critical flaw that is the entirely too clickable buttons triggering all the time when wielding and storing it. It's a HW issue that would be solvable in minutes by Xreal by adding settings for those buttons, letting me disable them or at least not have one of them kick me out of the only view mode I use and resetting all the window positions.

After yet another walk where the mode reset twice, power button got pressed and trackpad started moving a few times, and volume got messed with once, I had enough. I found a flat 6x1 lego tile, removed the internal stud center things, and use some moldable rubber glue to stick and shape it into place.

It's permanent in the sense that it's not going anywhere, but moldable glue tends to be possible to scrape off without damage when used on hard surfaces. I checked beforehand that all the features those buttons control (primarily power off) are accessible elsewhere, so that's also fine. This also solves the power button being clicked since it's located immediately below the bump caused by the lego, making it much less likely that anything manages to activate it in a pocket etc.

Honestly, this shouldn't be necessary. There's no reason both anchor and follow mode should be permanently available without letting the user disable either one. There's no reason the Beam Pro needs a second mode switch button that is not reprogrammable. There's no reason the auto unlock while glasses are connected should be mandatory. This feels like alpha software on both Beam Pro and glasses at times.