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Xreal Aura glasses price announced — $1,299 and orders start in 'coming weeks'

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Xreal Aura glasses price announced — $1,299 and orders start in 'coming weeks'

With a release window in the "coming weeks" the Xreal Aura smart glasses finally have a price, and no, it won't be cheap. The Android XR spectacles are a pair of spatial computing glasses that should rival the recently announced Meta VR Glasses.

The glasses will come in two configurations starting at $1,299, with pre-orders open now.

“By combining lightweight optical see through glasses with Android XR, Gemini, and Snapdragon-powered performance, XREAL AURA gives movie-lovers, gamers, sports fans, desktop workers, developers and the enterprise, a new way to experience computing that's more wearable, open, and connected to the world around them – and they will be able to experience it this year," CEO and co-founder Chi Xu said in a press release.

If you're unfamiliar, the Xreal Aura was developed in a partnership between Google, Qualcomm and Xreal. These glasses feature "split-compute," meaning that the Snapdragon Reality Elite silicon that powers the glasses is in a separate puck.

The glasses weight 95 grams, putting them on the slightly heavier side of AR glasses. They feature a 70-degree field of view, which is pretty generous when similar products often sit closer to 50.

The compute puck enables gesture controls but can also be used as a trackpad for navigation.

With a price of $1,299, the Xreal Aura glasses are basically the same price as the Meta VR Glasses and, based on our initial hands-on testing, seem to do a lot of the same things.

Both are spatial computing eXtended Reality platforms in a pair of smart glasses that are tethered to a compute puck that holds the battery and CPU.


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