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First Wired XR Glasses Powered By Android XR (techpowerup.com) 20

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-shiny dept.
XREAL has launched the AURA, its first wired augmented reality glasses powered by Google's Android XR platform. They feature transparent Micro-OLED displays, a 70-degree field of view, Gemini AI integration, and a Snapdragon Reality Elite processor. TechPowerUp reports: The device is built around a simple idea: your apps, screens, entertainment, and AI assistant should be able to come with you wherever you go. On day-one, users have access to millions of familiar mobile apps and games from Google Play, alongside many experiences specifically for XR. Android XR brings familiar hand and voice inputs to AURA, while Gemini makes the experiences more natural and intuitive by working across what users see and do.

With Wired Mirroring, users can plug a computer or handheld gaming console directly into XREAL AURA via USB-C and instantly turn it into a massive private spatial window. That means a laptop, handheld gaming device, or other compatible USB-C device can sit alongside native Android XR apps in a user's spatial workspace. Whether turning a plane seat into a private multi-monitor setup, watching a movie on a large virtual screen, or playing Android and console games in an immersive spatial environment, XREAL AURA is designed to make spatial computing practical, portable, and useful.

[...] For work, AURA creates a portable multi-window workspace without requiring a physical monitor. Users can open Android XR apps, mirror a laptop, place windows in virtual space, and use Gemini to help understand or act on what is on screen. For entertainment, AURA becomes a private theater on demand. Users can access familiar streaming apps, expand content into a large virtual display, and use electrochromic dimming to create a more immersive viewing experience while remaining aware of their surroundings when needed. For play, AURA supports Android games and compatible mirrored gaming devices, enabling users to play on a large and immersive private display. The glasses are available to order today, with limited-time pricing starting at $1,099 for the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage model. Devices are expected to begin shipping in mid-November.

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  • How long is the cord?

  • I think that AR glasses could be very useful for professional use, such as industrial applications and in other limited environments. But that's it.

    Smartphone users clogging up walkways or walking out into traffic have been a nuisance for decades.
    I predict that AR-glass users out and about would only get worse.

    And then there's the spying issue. You can't tell what the glasses are doing. When there are many different brands out there all different and you can't learn them all, so you'd have to expect that th

    • Smartglasses made me change the style of sunglasses i wear now, i always wear wireframe or if plastic i will get what have frames so it is obvious that they dont have any electronics hidden in them
      • Yeah. I like Rayban's wayfarer style, but meta Mark blew that up for me. gotta go get new frames now.

    • There's definitely going to be "market confusion" between this sort of thing and "pervert glasses". Like with so many things, Meta has shit in the well. However, these actually look like they could be good - the idea that you can turn any space into a massive monitor for your laptop is awesome.

      The initial apps offerings look... well, predictably crap. They're just some US-focussed stuff they threw together to get some sort of 'hook' to lure consumers. I don't imagine any of it is any actual use. But to some

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by Sloppy ( 14984 )

      From a 1960s comedy:

      Interviewer: "Have you ever had any experience running a high-speed digital electronic computer?"

      Virgil: "Yes, I have."

      Interviewer: "Where?"

      Virgil: "My aunt has one."

      It was an absolutely absurd thing to say in 1967, but in 2026 the joke is about as dated as anything can be. I wonder if young people today even get it.

      I don't know when you went larval, but your low uid suggests it was probably a very long time ago. I speculate that a few decades back, a type of tool once thought to be for

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro as being the next big thing for professionals and on-the-go working? Unlimited massive monitors all around you on the plane, instructions overlaid over the thing you are working on, AI vision built in.

      Who needs a 92 inch TV when you can put on a Vision Pro and watch a movie on the crapper?

      These won't be any different. At least they don't need a front camera to relay the image to the screens just so you can see what is in front of you, but there sim

      • Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro as being the next big thing for professionals and on-the-go working? Unlimited massive monitors all around you on the plane, instructions overlaid over the thing you are working on, AI vision built in.

        The people who were hyping the Vision Pro were delusional about its price and performance, and were buying into some truly absurd use cases. Screen mirroring? We've had that for close to a decade before the Vision Pro was released, it wasn't used because it sucked for reasons that the Vision Pro didn't resolve.

        However that doesn't mean that you ignore all applications for something. This abso-fucking-lutely has industrial applications. As do VR headsets. I've used VR headsets in a professional context on qu

      • Apples (pun intended) and oranges: Apple's Vision Pro was a massive, heavy, full head headset ... while this is basically just heavy sunglasses.

      • Certainly nothing worth the cost of the glasses, the weight, and needing to charge it regularly.

        $1k and 100gr is getting close (you also have to carry the puck, though, but that could fit in a pocket). battery life is reportedly 3-4h, that's disappointing. also, current price is early bird "offer". but still ...

        pending testing (i probably won't), from the specs and press it looks like a solid product to me. i could find uses for such a device (after a few more iterations).

        Remember when people here were hyping up Apple's Vision Pro

        fanbois gonna fanboi, and most of those were influencers fishing for views anyway.

        These won't be any different.

        i don't expect any of this to be revolutionary, b

  • I get that slashvertisements have to exist to keep this place afloat, but "The glasses are available to order today" is such a massive fuck you. That's not what available means. The ordering website is available. The glasses are not. Advertisers are all gaslighters.

  • Why do all the smart/ar glasses do the glasses part poorly? for devices you want to see none of them do prescription lenses if they display anything

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by unrtst ( 777550 )

      Why do all the smart/ar glasses do the glasses part poorly? for devices you want to see none of them do prescription lenses if they display anything

      YMMV on the how well they do it, but both the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 2&3 support prescription optical inserts, and XReal also supports prescription lenses (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-one-pro-prescription-lens), and that includes this new XReal Aura (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-aura ... it's listed on there under "Personalized Prescription Lenses").

  • "Yawn!" That's my comment. And the price tag makes it a hard "no" real quick.

  • The article cites these glasses as very innovative. In reality, the "puck" is just another smart phone, but this time with the screen replaced by the new glasses. Same computer, different display. If they really innovation, build everything into the glasses themselves. They're pushing too early as the glasses only have display functionality and nothing else. The reality is that technology has not advanced enough to put everything into the glasses themselves. At least not for the functionality that they want

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