Google and XREAL launch the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR
XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses running Android XR, projects apps, streaming, and Gemini onto transparent lenses with a 70-degree field of view. The glasses weigh under 95 grams because a tethered compute puck carries the battery and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite platform. It supports multi-window workspaces, Wired Mirroring from a laptop, and spatial video, launching at $1,099 in the U.S., Canada, Korea, and Japan.
Gemini on Android XR understands what you're seeing and doing, both in the real world and on your screens, so you can have a natural conversation to get help across your apps.
- zmmmmm
It's going to be interesting to see this compete with the Meta VR glasses. They are essentially identical for productivity except the Aura has physical light pass through while the VR glasses use external cameras to provide pass through. The Meta VR glasses will have better resolution I think, but then the Aura has access to the whole Android ecosystem - so that means real implementations of Microsoft Word etc.
But the real choice is the unfortunate one of who is least likely to abandon the whole thing when it doesn't take off and leave you with an un/poorly supported device. Both companies have terrible track records on this.
- 2001zhaozhao
I actually don't see any reason why I would use this instead of my Xreal Air (released like 3 years ago) + Samsung Dex. The phone is a perfect "compute puck" for wired AR glasses and Google even makes them, so why the heck are they selling separate compute pucks with these glasses and making them unaffordable?? Just make some pixel glasses that run android xr on the pixel phone instead
- georgewsinger
If you're interested in running full Linux Desktop apps instead of Android apps, Simula is getting closer to releasing VR/AR compatible compute packs with laptop competitive specs: https://simulavr.com/blog/compute-pack-progress/
- Aozora7
I'm not interested in VR/AR stuff, but I'm still waiting for dumb lightweight wireless glasses that would be able to replace my four monitor setup on PC.
- delichon
> Real-time AI perception
Continuous AI dependence of a large fraction of society is coming fast. It needs a name. Cyborgism? Umbilicals?
We'll also need to coin some names for the symbiotes to call the resistors. Neoamish? Analogues?
The economic power difference between the two groups may justify calling them the Eloi and the Morlocks.