TL;DR
- Xreal’s Android XR glasses will include a puck-like processing system.
- The puck will characteristic an unspecified Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.
- The glasses can have the most important display the corporate has ever made.
There’s been loads of discuss Google, Apple, and Meta all engaged on AR glasses, however they aren’t the one gamers within the recreation. Xreal is at the moment working by itself pair of AR glasses, referred to as Venture Aura. Aside from the truth that they’ll run on Android XR, not a lot is understood concerning the system but. Nevertheless, Xreal shared a couple of new particulars this week.
The Xreal workforce made an look at Augmented World Expo 2025 on Tuesday. As reported by Gizmodo, the corporate didn’t launch any new photographs or supply any demos, but it surely did reveal that your cellphone received’t be capable to deal with the type of processing Aura calls for. As an alternative of utilizing a cellphone as a computing system, Aura will use a separate, tethered, puck-like system for its computational wants.
This puck-like system, sufficiently small to slot in your pocket, will home an unspecified Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. It’s unclear if Xreal plans to make use of the identical SoC that’s heading to Samsung’s Venture Moohan — the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2. It’s additionally stated that this puck will likely be removable, in case you wish to retailer the glasses and the puck individually.
Whereas a Snapdragon processor will energy the puck, the glasses can have their very own chip. This processor is claimed to be a modified model of the X1 chip discovered within the Xreal One glasses, known as X1S. It was additionally confirmed that the glasses can have front-facing sensors, just like the Meta Quest 3.
Xreal additionally just lately up to date its web site so as to add that Aura can have a 70-degree area of view (FOV). The web site claims this would be the largest display the corporate has made thus far. To perform this, the workforce is utilizing a “flat prism lens” that contains a triangular-shaped pane. Though this pane of glass is 40% smaller than the glass in its older units, it permits a wider FOV on the horizontal axis.
Contemplating the heavy processing demand, it wouldn’t be a shock if Aura finally ends up being a fairly power-hungry system. Sadly, Xreal didn’t supply any particulars when requested about battery life. It seems the corporate additionally dodged questions concerning the worth and launch date.