announcement since the Meta Quest 2 heres why

Date:
Tue, 20 May 2025 17:45:30 +0000

Description:
Xreal is teaming up with Google to create Android XR glasses with Project Aura, and Meta should be worried.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Xreal
is working on Android XR glasses They're codenamed Project Aura (the same
name Google's rumored Glass 2 apparently had) The glasses are a collab
between Xreal, Google and Qualcomm

Google and Samsung's Android XR collab has been a major focus, but at Google I/O 2025 a new (yet familiar) partner emerged to showcase the second official Android XR device: Xreal with Project Aura.

Xreal and its Xreal One glasses currently top our list for the best smart glasses thanks to their impressive audio and visual quality.

However, while they include AR elements they make your connected device (a phone, laptop, or console, among other options) float in front of you like youre in a private movie theatre, which is fantastic by the way they arent yet as versatile as other smart glasses propositions were being promised by Google, Meta, Snap and others .

Xreal Project Aura a pair of XR glasses officially referred to as an optical see-through (OST) XR device should shift Xreals range towards that of its rivals thanks to its advanced Qualcomm chipset, Xreals visual system expertise, and Googles Android XR software. The combination of which should (hopefully) form a more fully realized spatial computing device than weve
seen from Xreal before. Samsung aren't the only Android XR glasses (Image credit: Google)

As exciting as this announcement is Ill explain more below in a moment we should keep our emotions in check until further details on Project Aura are revealed at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in June, and in other
announcements set to be made later this year (according to Xreal).

Simply because beyond its existence and its general design we know very
little about Aura.

We can see it has in-built cameras, have been promised Qualcomm processors, and it appears to use the same dual-eye display technology exhibited by
Xreals other glasses. Plus it'll tethered rather than fully wireless, though it should still offer all of the Android XR abilities Google has showcased.

But important questions like its cost and release date havent yet been detailed.

Im hoping itll offer us a more cost-effective entry point to this new era of XR glasses, but well have to wait and see before we know for certain if this is a breakthrough moment for real-world XR as Chi Xu, Co-founder and CEO of Xreal promises.

Still, even before knowing its specs and other key factors Im leaning towards agreeing with Xreals CEO. I love my Xreal One glasses (Image credit: Future / Hamish Hector) Meta should be worried

So why is this Xreal Android XR reveal potentially so important in my eyes?

Because while Meta has promised its Horizon OS will appear on non-Meta headsets from Asus, Lenovo, and Xbox since that announcement weve seen nothing of these other headsets in over a year. That is, beyond a whisper on winds (read: a small leak) about Asus Project Tarius .

Android XR on the other hand has, before launch, not only confirmed collaborations between Google and other companies (Xreal and Samsung) but shown those devices in action.

They arent just promises, theyre real. A threat to the Meta Quest 3? (Image credit: Meta)

Now the key deciding factor will be if Android XR can prove itself as an operating system that rivals Horizon OS in terms of the breadth and quality
of its XR apps. With Google, Samsung, Xreal, and more behind it, Im feeling confident that it will.

If it lives up to my expectations, Android XR could seriously shake up Metas XR dominance thanks to the varied XR hardware options under its umbrella out the gate that should lead to competition resulting in better devices and prices for us consumers as an end result.

Well have to continue to watch how Android XR develops, but it looks like Google is off to a very strong start. For the first time in a while Meta
might finally be on the back foot in the XR space, and the ball is in its court to respond. You might also like Meta Quest 4: 5 things I want to see from Meta's next VR headset I took my Meta Quest 3 on a 3,000-mile flight so you dont have to Forget Android XR, I've got my eyes on Vivo's new Meta Quest 3 competitor as it could be the most important VR headset of 2025



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/xreal-is -making-android-xr-glasses-and-this-could-be-the-most-exciting-xr-announcement -since-the-meta-quest-2-launch-heres-why


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