AR glasses maker XREAL today announced its \u2018X by Xreal\u2019 sub-brand (xbx) is officially bringing its first pair of budget XR glasses outside of China. <\/p>\n
Xreal today released its xbx a01+ in the US for $300, available across xreal.com<\/a>, Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, and Micro Center. You\u2019ll also find it direct from Xreal and partner retailers across the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n First launched in China in May<\/a>, Xbx a01+ packs in a fairly smart slate of specs for its price, offering 50\u00b0 field-of-view, HDR10 support, real-time SDR-to-HDR conversion, 120Hz refresh rate, and bird bath-style optics delivering up to 1,600 nits of brightness from its Sony micro-OLED displays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At 62g, Xbx a01+ is remarkably light too, although it\u2019s important to note it\u2019s not a standalone device. Like all of Xreal\u2019s other glasses, the company\u2019s latest budget pair are basically meant for consuming traditional content while physically tethered to your standard array of mobile devices, suich as phones, tablets, portable game consoles, and laptops.<\/p>\n Notably, as $300, Xbx a01+ sits well below XREAL\u2019s premium lineup, undercutting the $400 Xreal One, $500 Xreal 1S, and $600 Xreal One Pro. Getting them down in price has also been a balancing act; the glasses don\u2019t feature any sort of camera sensors, electrochromic dimming, and don\u2019t include the usual \u2018Sound by Bose\u2019 audio seen in other Xreal devices\u2014all of it making for the company\u2019s cheapest glasses to date.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere XREAL\u2019s flagship lines push the frontier of spatial computing, X By XREAL was created to make AR glasses feel more accessible, personal, and fun,\u201d said Chi Xu, co-founder and CEO of XREAL. \u201cWith a01+, we\u2019re bringing XREAL\u2019s industry leading display technology, comfort, and optical engineering expertise into a lighter, more affordable product built for entertainment, gaming, and everyday use.\u201d<\/p>\n Xu maintains its first budget glasses mark \u201can important step toward making big-screen AR something anyone can experience,\u201d noting that it\u2019s primarily built for movie-lovers and gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AR glasses maker XREAL today announced its \u2018X by Xreal\u2019 sub-brand (xbx) is officially bringing its first pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49,48,61,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-792998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}