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XREAL\u2019s first pair of Android XR glasses, \u201cProject Aura,\u201d were announced alongside Google I\/O last month, and some new details are now coming out about the display and that you\u2019ll need a wired \u201cpuck\u201d to power the experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cProject Aura\u201d is the second confirmed product <\/a>to be running Google\u2019s Android XR. The glasses, much like XREAL\u2019s other products, are not necessarily for all-day wear. Rather, they essentially act as a very compact VR\/XR headset, especially when compared to the likes of something like Meta Quest or Samsung\u2019s upcoming \u201cProject Moohan\u201d headset.<\/p>\n XREAL is teasing some big advancements on the hardware side for this release, too. The company has updated its website <\/a>with some more details about \u201cProject Aura,\u201d as well as offering more information at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) as captured by Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cProject Aura\u201d will feature a 70-degree field-of-view, making it the \u201clargest screen\u201d the company has made to date. A new \u201cflat prism lens\u201d enables this wider field-of-view despite being much smaller than the existing lenses. \u201cAura\u201d will also include an X1S chipset alongside its Snapdragon chip, with X1S being a modified version of the chipset found in XREAL One<\/a> and XREAL One Pro<\/a>. <\/p>\n \tAdvertisement – scroll for more content<\/p>\n That processing power won\u2019t be found in the glasses themselves, though. <\/p>\n At AWE, XREAL confirmed that \u201cProject Aura\u201d will require a tethered \u201cpuck-like\u201d device to house all of the components that power Android XR. A wire built into the glasses will connect to that device which sits in your pocket and disconnects for easier storage. Other XREAL products work similarly, but usually to connect to other types of devices. Both Samsung\u2019s \u201cProject Moohan\u201d<\/a> and Apple\u2019s Vision Pro<\/a> also require being connected to an external battery, so it\u2019s certainly not outlandish for XREAL to offload the processing power and battery to an external device in order to keep the glasses themselves compact. XREAL has yet to show what this external \u201cpuck\u201d will look like. Your smartphone also won\u2019t be able to act as this external computing device.<\/p>\n XREAL also confirmed that \u201cProject Aura\u201d will have forward-facing sensors for hand tracking. <\/p>\n As for the release window, XREAL confirmed through its website (as well as a post <\/a>that went under the radar last month) that \u201cProject Aura\u201d won\u2019t be coming to market until 2026, meaning this second Android XR headset is still at least six months away from launch. <\/p>\n More on Android XR:<\/p>\n Follow Ben:<\/strong>\u00a0Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0Threads<\/a>, Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.<\/a><\/p>\n
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