{"id":469724,"date":"2026-05-27T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469724\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:35:14","slug":"xreals-new-299-xbx-smart-glasses-channel-xbox-vibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469724\/","title":{"rendered":"Xreal\u2019s New $299 \u2018xbx\u2019 Smart Glasses Channel Xbox Vibes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xreal, known for its high-end display-centric smart glasses<\/a>, is making its gear more accessible. On Wednesday, the company revealed a new sub-brand\u2014X By Xreal\u2014focused on lightweight display glasses that start at $299.<\/p>\n

Xreal<\/a> is the Chinese tech company that makes screen-forward smart glasses<\/a>. Its devices connect to a phone, desktop, or console and provide a display that beams large, high-quality video directly into the wearer\u2019s eyeballs. The glasses are meant to provide a sharp, reasonably comfortable<\/a> way to play games or watch movies on a big screen, without having to crane your neck down at a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

X By Xreal, or xbx for short, sounds a little like Microsoft\u2019s popular gaming console, but Xreal thinks it\u2019s different enough that the naming convention won\u2019t draw Redmond\u2019s ire. The first pair of glasses\u2014the a01\u2014look like they feature Xbox branding, with the xbx logo rendered along the frames in a bright yellow-green font that invites comparison.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Xreal<\/p>\n

The a01 are extra lightweight, weighing around 62 grams (0.14 pounds). Xreal says the displays have a perceived brightness of 1600 nits, with HDR10 support, an anti-shake mode to help keep the picture stable, and interchangeable frames. They\u2019re designed to be comfy, wearable glasses for people to keep on their face, whether they are \u201clying in bed watching shows late at night or gaming with friends for long periods,\u201d according to the company’s press release. Since they connect to a phone or laptop that does the bulk of the video processing, the glasses don\u2019t require their own batteries.<\/p>\n

Xreal\u2019s main goal with its glasses is to win on wearability. Face computers have long struggled on that front. More powerful systems beget heftier cases<\/a>, which are harder on faces<\/a>. The big smart glasses manufacturers, like Meta and Google<\/a>, are aiming to squeeze as many features as possible into their smart glasses while also keeping them mobile and comfy. Meta, which has done quite well on that front, has still struggled to keep its more powerful glasses<\/a> from bulging out.<\/p>\n

Xreal\u2019s display glasses take a different route, focusing on more niche use cases of consuming content. They\u2019re not designed to be worn while walking around, though the display’s high brightness and the chromatic dimming features mean they can be used outdoors. The a01 also supports Xreal’s Beam Pro<\/a>, its Android device that enables three degrees of freedom (3DoF) tracking plus access to Google Play Store apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xreal, known for its high-end display-centric smart glasses, is making its gear more accessible. On Wednesday, the company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3927,203,61,60,16277,80,3926],"class_list":["post-469724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-accessories-and-peripherals","tag-gadgets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-smart-glasses","tag-technology","tag-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}