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Phone Arena
2 days ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
Xreal One Pro AR glasses launch with extended pre-order bonus
Last year, the Xreal One AR glasses came out and elevated the XR ( Extended Reality ) industry, with the Xreal One Pro slated for a 2025 launch. The Pro model is now available for purchase, and Xreal is even extending the pre-order bonus, which can save you $150. A popular choice of brand for AR products, Xreal's glasses provide immersive entertainment and a boost to productivity in a lightweight form factor. The Xreal One series continues that trend, while also boasting wider FOVs ( field of view ) and the custom X1 chip for on-board processing. Our Xreal One review couldn't find much to complain about last year. An in-house chip named the X1 powers the Xreal One series AR glasses. | Image credit — Xreal Xreal One Pro will be available for ordering on July 1, and the company is currently working on delivering the thousands of pre-orders. Due to the overwhelming demand for the glasses, the pre-order bonus has been extended till June 30. You can get the pre-order bonus by purchasing the Xreal One Pro directly from the company's store. Availability on Amazon and Best Buy will begin later in July. Xreal One Pro are priced at $649, and the pre-order bonus brings that down to $599. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, shipping should begin 15 days after you've placed your order. Take entertainment to the next level with the Xreal One Pro. | Image credit — Xreal The Xreal One Pro retains the company's approach to using a source device for streaming content. However, the on-board X1 chip enhances the experience greatly, and allows for a lot more customization as well as much smoother visuals overall. The Xreal Eye — an accessory that the company had announced last year — is now also available for pre-ordering on the site for $99, with shipping beginning next month. Xreal Eye will allow you to record 1080p 60 FPS videos but, much more importantly, enable 6-DoF capability for the Xreal One and One Pro. The Xreal Eye accessory for the Xreal One and One Pro. | Image credit — Xreal 6-DoF ( degrees of freedom ) allows spatial content to remain 'anchored' where you left it. This makes for a much more immersive experience, and lets you multitask with ease no matter what you may be doing. For the 171-inch virtual screen that the Xreal One Pro can project, the Xreal Eye will greatly enhance the experience and make it look like an actual stationary TV in your room. You can pre-order the Xreal One Pro here for $150 off. Secure your connection now at a bargain price! We may earn a commission if you make a purchase Check Out The Offer
Tom's Guide
4 days ago
- Tom's Guide
The best budget smart glasses just got cheaper — RayNeo Air 3s are now $50 off
Smart glasses are quickly becoming all the rage, and I want in. I mean, having a display beamed straight to your eyes in a stylish pair of specs? Count me in. Unfortunately they don't exactly come cheap — unless you check out the RayNeo Air 3s XR Glasses. Rated as one of the best smart glasses for those on a budget, the RayNeo Air 3s have been at the top of my list to jump on the AR specs bandwagon, and it's largely due to the huge value for money they offer for first-time users. And now, even more value, as the RayNeo Air 3s XR Glasses are now $50 off at Best Buy. To put this into context, these specs are already up to $230 less when compared to other smart glasses like the Xreal One ($499) and Viture Pro ($549) specs, and this price cut only makes the Air 3s even more tempting. The RayNeo Air 3s may not offer fancy spatial computing or 3DoF AR features, but as someone who enjoys a stylish pair of glasses while watching shows or playing games right in the lenses, it's hard to go wrong at this price — and that $50 price cut makes it all the sweeter. Ever since learning about the XR glasses in our RayNeo Air 3s review, I've been eyeing up the specs as an all-new way for me to scroll through screens on my iPhone and MacBook Air — whether that be getting on with work or playing games. With the Micro-OLED panels it boasts, you'll get a smooth 1080p picture at 120Hz, and more excitingly, it expands into a whopping 201-inch display right before your eyes. Imagine the possibilities while traveling; an expansive, cinema-like experience while watching shows on Netflix on the train or giving your Steam Deck the big-screen treatment? Yes, please. Interestingly, the Air 3s smart glasses also offer sublime image quality that rivals their pricier competition like the Xreal One and Viture Pro. Expect 98% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage and 2000,000:1 contrast ratio, which means fine-tuned details and color accuracy. The XR glasses also look far more "normal" than many smart glasses that hit the market, and by that, I mean less chunky and comfortable to wear. At 2.8 pounds, these are some of the lightest AR glasses you can grab. Plus they have that premium appeal. After trying out the Snap Spectacles aimed at developers, I've been impressed by what the future of smart glasses looks like. Now, the RayNeo Air 3s don't offer those same capabilities, as there are no spatial computing features or other AR tools that it takes advantage of. But for anyone who wants a taste of what smart glasses can do today without having to splurge on pricey specs, and wants a portable 201-inch display right on their face, the RayNeo Air 3s make for a great point of entry to anyone new to AR glasses. And at this price? I may have to bag a pair myself.
Tom's Guide
12-06-2025
- Tom's Guide
Xreal's Project Aura smart glasses are closer to Meta's Project Orion than I thought - and the specs sound wild
Xreal is having quite the summer kickoff after revealing its Project Aura Android XR smart glasses during Google I/O 2025. Xreal already makes some of the best smart glasses, and it sounds like Project Aura will be massive upgrade. The company was a keynote speaker during Augmented World Expo 2025 in Long Beach, California to share a few more details about the new glasses. There's plenty we don't know. But we do know that Xreal's Android XR specs will feature a 70 degree field of view, the largest field of view in any smart glasses. For comparison, the Xreal One and One Pro which launch on July 1 feature 57 degree FOVs, currently the widest field we've seen. Those extra 13 degrees are important, it's not the 110 FOV in the Meta Quest 3, but it will still provide a large display, hopefully with peripheral vision feeling less constrained. From speaking with Xreal's head of public relations, Ralph Jodice, and Qualcomm's VP of Product Management, Said Bakadir, we're able to confirm some details and make some educated guesses. From our talk with Jodice and what Xreal has announced between Google I/O and AWE 2025, we know that Project Aura will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip in a connected compute device. Xreal has confirmed that the glasses will run a souped up X1S custom silicon in the glasses. If you've read our Xreal One review, you'll have already seen what spatial capabilities are in the X1 chip, so that extra S is surely meant for additional depth of field anchoring features for those AR user features of Android XR. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. And on top of that, from speaking with Bakadir, I'm guessing we'll see a secondary Snapdragon XR chip driving a lot of the compute requirements of Android XR from the puck. The recently-announced Snapdragon AR1+ chip is good for on-device AI and simple local tasks, but for the fully-fleshed experience, you need something like an XR2 you find in the Meta Quest 3 to make it happen. We were also told that Aura will feature front facing sensors for gesture controls and MR experiences including a built-in camera, which you can see in the teaser image above. We got a hint at potential features with a spatial computing demo featuring the Xreal Air 2 Ultra during AWE 2025, where we played with pinch gesture controls on demos featuring an AI image generator, an NFL game recap with real time player stats and a photo/video gallery loader. It worked decently but also felt like a work in progress. Still, it points to the future of media control with smart glasses from Xreal. As an Android XR device, we know it will be "deeply integrated" with Gemini. One place to look for hints at the future of Project Aura is Samsung's Project Moohan headset, which has been equally as mum on details despite being known of for longer. We went hands on with Moohan during Google I/O 2025, and walked away impressed with both the headset and Android XR. "What's in Moohan can come to Project Aura," Jodice told me, with some shifting for the different form factors, of course. "They are the Android XR experiences," he continued. As we learn more about both Android XR devices, we should see how their developments are similar and different. For now, we don't have release dates or prices, but both devices are in the works. If you're curious about Xreal, you can pick up the Xreal One Pro for $649 starting July 1, or you can preorder it now for $599.
Tom's Guide
20-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
Google and Xreal announce partnership with new Project Aura Android XR smart glasses
During Google's I/O 2025 conference, Xreal, maker of the Xreal One AR glasses, announced a partnership with the tech giant to build spatial computing devices on Android XR, the Google platform for extended reality (XR) devices. The device, dubbed Project Aura, is only the second official device announced for Android XR after Samsung's Project Moohan XR headset, which is supposed to launch later this year. "By combining our platform with XREAL's leadership in portable XR hardware, we're expanding spatial experiences to OST form-factors that are truly intuitive and accessible, representing a pivotal moment in our ecosystem," Google's Sr. directior of the XR ecosystem at Google, Hugo Swart, said in a press release. Xreal is calling Project Aura an "optical see-through" XR device, which looks similar to the Xreal One smart glasses in official images (see above). It's a "lightweight and tethered, cinematic and Gemini AI-powered device." Interestingly, Xreal developed the custom spatial computing X1 chip for its own glasses, but the company says the collaboration with Google will include a partnership with Qualcomm, meaning Project Aura will sport a Snapdragon XR chipset. Most likely, it will be the Snapdragon XR+ Gen 2, which is expected to feature in Project Moohan. "Project Aura reflects the power of this collaboration — merging a robust platform with advanced chipsets and our expertise in optical systems," Xreal CEO and founder, Chi Xu said in a press release. We believe this is a breakthrough moment for real-world XR.' The announcement of Project Aura at I/O appears to be aimed at developers to get them excited for the new device and working on apps or use cases for upcoming smart glasses. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Xreal makes some of the best smart glasses you can buy right now in the Xreal One and One Pro. Tom's Guide Managing Editor Jason England describes the Xreal One as his "go-to pair of glasses." As he said in his review, "So far, spatial computing hasn't really taken off. But it's become increasingly clear that the Xreal One is the next step towards this vision." Xreal said that more details will be shared during the Augmented World Expo which takes place in early June. Hopefully, we'll get more concrete specs on the new device and what Xreal is planning with it.
CNET
05-05-2025
- CNET
I Always Dreamed of Expanding My Desktop With Glasses. This Software Made It Real
The fantasy is this: I have my laptop -- or tablet, or phone, whatever's nearby -- and by plugging a small pair of display glasses into it, all the things I need can expand on a big virtual display, making seemingly infinite monitor space for myself. Why? To get more space for myself without having to carry anything big. Headphones for your eyes, in a sense. Display glasses like Xreal's and others already work as plug-in displays for lots of devices, and show a virtual monitor that can feel big and TV-like. But they can't do multi-app multitasking, and that's why my recent test-drive of Spacetop's software got me so intrigued. I can see a future forming here, if other software companies figure out a way to work better with things like glasses. Spacetop is made by Sightful, a startup that I met with several years ago when the concept was a display-free laptop keyboard base bonded with tethered Xreal glasses that became the laptop's monitor. That product never happened: instead of using custom-made Chromebook-like laptop bases with Qualcomm processors, the founders pivoted over to using more AI-focused "NPUs" on recent thin AI laptops with processors made by Intel, which Sightful's team says has offered better performance without needing to make a new device to work with glasses. "The moment we saw [Microsoft's] announcements about AI computers -- that everyone's computers, in the coming few years, are going to be AI computers -- it made perfect sense to say we can enable the audience earlier and faster than if we built our own integrated solution," Sightful's founders, Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan, told me when Spacetop transitioned to its new business plan last fall. Instead of a whole new "AR laptop," Spacetop is subscription software that runs on certain Windows laptops and connects with a particular model of Xreal Air 2 Ultra smart glasses. I can't shoot photos to show what I saw, but think of it as a larger-size curved space where apps can be laid out from your laptop. Scott Stein/CNET The experience: A 180-degree floating desktop What you get, running this software layer, is a curved desktop space that floats in the air, indicated by small arrays of dots, which you can open Windows apps onto, drag around, and resize as needed. It feels like a desktop for my laptop, but one that's larger and doesn't need my laptop screen at all. Provided you're OK wearing display glasses, this is the way I'd prefer to work: Making my own screens wherever I go and feeling like I've got a larger-scale office without needing to prop open anything else. Spacetop opens up the conversation around what glasses could be doing when connected with our own computers. That's the part that's missing on most phones and laptops and tablets right now. Xreal's most recent glasses, the Xreal One, already can fix a curved display in space. Spacetop's software pushes the capabilities more by having more of a handshake with the software on the laptop, which manages what apps will show on-glasses. Qualcomm began working on this type of software with Spaces, which ran on Android phones and interfaced with connected glasses. Google's upcoming Android XR software looks like it could possibly do the same down the road. Apple's Vision Pro, which can run a variety of iPad apps and float them anywhere while simultaneously mirroring a Mac monitor, is a bulky device in comparison, and you need both a Vision Pro and a MacBook to float apps around in the way that Spacetop's software enables. Spacetop's rendering isn't exactly how I saw it, but it's close enough to describe the effective experience (the field of view in-glasses is smaller, but you can turn your head to see apps all around you). Spacetop You can't do much more than open individual 2D apps up, though. That's fine for everyday work, and Spacetop's software is aimed at business subscriptions, for people who might want to get more work space beyond their laptop screen while on the road. I could see a use for this in meetings or in situations where you'd want to be looking at something in the real world while floating windows in the air around you. That might sound bizarre, but I used the Xreal One glasses back in January to take notes on my phone while watching a presentation: my notes app just hovered off to the side of the live speakers I was in the same room with. Clever details and awkward moments Spacetop's little software touches are clever. A little toolbar handles app launching, and a duplicate of your laptop display rests on the bottom of the floating desktop, lining up mostly with the actual laptop display that's open. I found that I could glance around at the open floating windows and then go down to the laptop screen and adjust settings if I needed to without feeling strange. My mouse cursor came along with me, either floating in air or appearing back on the laptop screen again as needed, mostly automatically. The glasses connect via USB-C cable to one of the laptop's Thunderbolt-enabled ports for video and audio to work. Scott Stein/CNET That doesn't mean there aren't quirks: I found the pop-up displays sometimes were slow to launch or didn't launch at all, something Sightful suggested I unplug and re-plug the glasses in to fix. There's also the limited field of view on the glasses to consider. As good as Xreal's glasses are at projecting a quality OLED display in the air, the viewing area is still limited to what feels like a boxed-out rectangle in the middle of your vision. It feels like about the same dimensions as a medium-to-large monitor, and can fit a couple of windows (or one large one) into view easily, but to see the rest of the floating apps around you you'll need to turn your head around to make sure the other parts of the curved desktop come into view. The Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses can also make your surroundings dimmer like sunglasses, or turn the glasses more transparent as needed, and they have their own speakers. Prescription inserts are needed for me to use these Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses, adding an extra layer of thickness. But there are adjustable nose pads. Scott Stein/CNET A potential future for glasses (but ideally without a subscription) The Spacetop subscription is $200 a year, on top of needing a specific pair of $699 Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses (Sightful is selling the glasses and one year of the software together for $899). Sightful needs these particular glasses because they have full-room tracking capabilities built in, which can be used in a travel mode to make sure the floating monitor stays centered wherever the laptop is. The software also needs to run, for now, on particular Windows AI laptops with Intel NPUs. I tested on an HP Elitebook. It's hardly something for the average person right now, but it does show me exactly what I really want: ways for my own laptops and tablets and phones to work better with glasses-as-displays. I think it can happen. Microsoft, Google, and Apple are going to have to wake up and play a better part. In the meantime, Sightful's Spacetop is making some things happen on its own.
