Your Phone Won't Be Enough to Power the First Real Pair of Android XR Glasses
We have the first few specs on Xreal's Project Aura, the first AR glasses built for Android XR.
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TL;DR: Xreal’s Project Aura is shaping up to be the first true AR glasses running Google’s Android XR—but your phone can’t power them. Instead of offloading all that 3D and AI muscle to a tethered phone, Aura uses a pocketable “compute puck” (likely packing a Snapdragon XR chip) while the glasses themselves house a more powerful X1S processor. Expect front-facing sensors and hand-tracking, but also a wired connection and uncertain battery life for heavy use.
On the optics side, Aura ditches the bulky “birdbath” lenses for a new flat-prism design that’s about 44 percent smaller yet pushes your field of view up to ~70 degrees. It’ll run most Android apps (think Google Maps with 3D overlays) and play nice with Gemini AI demos, but with no word on price or release date—rumor has it these could cost near $1,000—so don’t bet on walking around wire-free anytime soon.
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