hands-on with Project Aura<\/a> late last year, which initially proved to be an interesting offering from the newly-minted partnership, albeit a decidedly less risky one since Xreal is mostly sticking to a well-worn playbook by offering birdbath optics aided by a fairly shaded pair of electrochromically dimmed lenses to compensate for light loss.<\/p>\nThat said, Project Aura is remarkably lightweight, owing to its tethered compute puck, and has sharp displays, compact design, and good portability. We\u2019re of course still waiting to see whether Xreal will expand input beyond using the compute puck as a trackpad, or its optical hand-tracking, and hopefully learn more closer to launch sometime later this year.<\/p>\n
While Project Aura will be the first pair of AR glasses to run Android XR, they\u2019re far from the only XR device to do so. In late 2025, Samsung released its Galaxy XR standalone mixed reality headset, the first official device to run Android XR. Soon to release are also a fleet of smart glasses from a variety of companies working with Samsung and Google, including Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Kering.<\/p>\n
XREAL Project Aura Specs (Known So Far)<\/p>\n
Spec
\nDetails<\/p>\n
OS
\nAndroid XR<\/p>\n
Display Type
\nbirdbath-style optics (newer, more compact generation)<\/p>\n
Field of View
\n70\u00b0+<\/p>\n
Compute Puck Chipset
\nQualcomm Snapdragon XR platform (likely XR2+ Gen 2 class)<\/p>\n
Onboard Chipset
\nXREAL X1S spatial computing chip<\/p>\n
Compute Architecture
\nSplit-compute tethered puck<\/p>\n
Input Types
\nHand tracking, gesture input, voice input, touchpad puck<\/p>\n
Eye Tracking
\nN\/A<\/p>\n
AI Features
\nGoogle Gemini<\/p>\n
App Ecosystem
\nGoogle Play + Android XR apps + OpenXR\/WebXR support<\/p>\n
Lens Dimming
\nElectronically adjustable dimming lenses<\/p>\n
Connectivity
\nWired tether to puck<\/p>\n
PC Streaming
\nGoogle PC Connect for Windows desktop streaming<\/p>\n
Tracking
\n6DOF spatial tracking<\/p>\n
Cameras
\n3 outward-facing sensors<\/p>\n
Battery
\nExternal battery in compute puck; capacity unknown<\/p>\n
Weight
\nN\/A<\/p>\n
Price
\nN\/A<\/p>\n
Release
\n2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"XREAL today confirmed it\u2019s launching Project Aura sometime this year, making them the first pair of AR glasses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-681473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>XREAL Aura | Image courtesy Google<\/p>\n