- Xreal works on Android XR glasses
- They are the codename Project Aura (the same name Google’s Rumor Glass 2 apparently had)
- The glasses are a collapse between Xreal, Google and Qualcomm
Google and Samsung’s Android XR Collab have been a major focus, but on Google I/O 2025 a new (yet well -known) partner appeared to show the second official Android XR device: Xreal with Project Aura.
Xreal and its Xreal One glasses are currently peaking our list for the best smart glasses thanks to their impressive sound and visual quality.
Although they include scars – they manufacture your connected device (a phone, a laptop or console, flowing among other options) in front of you, as if you are in a private cinema that is fantastic by the way – they are not as versatile as other smart glasses we are promised by Google, Meta, Snap and others.
Xreal Project Aura-One Pair XR glasses, officially referred to as an optically transparent (cheese) XR-Unit Moving Xreal’s range to its rivals thanks to its advanced Qualcomm Chipset, Xreal’s visual system expertise and Google’s Android XR software. The combination should (hopefully) form a more fully realized spatial computer device than we have seen from Xreal before.
As exciting as this message is – I will explain more below in a moment – we should keep our feelings in check until further details of Project Aura are revealed at Augmented World Expo (AWE) in June, and in other messages to be made “later in the year” (according to Xreal).
Simply because, in addition to its existence and its general design, we know very little about Aura.
We can see that it has built-in cameras, has been promised Qualcomm processors, and it seems to use the same double-eye display technology exhibited by Xreal’s other glasses. Plus it will be tied rather than fully wireless, though it should still offer all Android XR skills that Google has shown.
But important questions such as its costs and release date have not yet been detailed.
I hope it will offer us a more cost-effective entry point to this new era of XR glasses, but we will have to wait and see before we know for sure if this is “a breakthrough moment for the real world XR” as Chi XU, co-founder and CEO of Xreal-Lover.
Still, even before I know its specifications and other key factors, I am leaning towards agreeing with Xreal’s CEO.
So why does this Xreal Android XR potentially reveal so important in my eyes?
For while Meta has promised its Horizon us, we appear on the non-meta-headset-from Asus, Lenovo and the Xbox page This message we have not seen any of these other headsets in over a year. That is, beyond a whisper on wind (read: a small leak) about Asus’ project Tarius.
Android XR, on the other hand, has not only confirmed collaboration between Google and other companies (Xreal and Samsung) but shown these devices in action.
They don’t just lift they are real.
Now the most important decisive factor will be if the Android XR can prove itself as an operating system competing with Horizon us in terms of the breadth and quality of its XR apps. With Google, Samsung, Xreal and more behind it, I feel sure it will.
If it lives up to my expectations, Android XR could seriously shake Meta’s XR dominance thanks to the various XR hardware settings under its umbrella out of the gate -it should lead to competition that results in better units and prices for US consumers as a final result.
We will have to continue to see how Android XR is developing, but it seems that Google is in the process of a very strong start. For the first time in a while, Meta can finally be on the back foot in the XR room and the ball is in its court to answer.
