Project Aura: Everything to know about Xreal’s Android XR glasses
Project Aura: Everything to know about Xreal’s Android XR glasses
https://mashable.com/tech/xreal-project-aura-android-xr-glasses-everything-to-know
Publish Date: 2026-05-20 11:18:00
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Google’s annual I/O showcase focused heavily on AI news, but the event also contained some exciting developments in the XR glasses front.
Namely, Xreal used the event as a way to show off Project Aura, an ambitious new pair of XR glasses that were originally announced in December. They offer a massive 70-degree field of view, the biggest of any Xreal glasses, and have plenty of nifty-sounding XR capabilities. Some media members, including Mashable alum Ray Wong writing for Gizmodo, got to try Project Aura out and gave us a decent idea of what to expect when the glasses launch later this year.
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The first thing to know is that these are more advanced than the Meta Ray-Ban glasses that have been en vogue for a while now, in the sense that they offer a visual display inside the glasses, rather than relying entirely on audio cues from an AI voice assistant. Project Aura actually occupies an interesting middle ground between the Ray-Bans and something like Apple’s Vision Pro headset, in the sense that it comes with a small computing puck that is attached to the glasses via a wire. According to Gizmodo’s preview, you can wear the puck around your neck via an attached lanyard.
Previously, Xreal has focused on augmented reality glasses, which project a virtual display into the world around you. With Project Aura, Xreal is moving into new territory — the Android XR platform.
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Like a Vision Pro, Project Aura makes use of hand tracking to interact with augmented reality elements in the display. Unfortunately, there’s no eye tracking, which is definitely a compromise compared to a full headset. However, Gizmodo said the hand tracking worked well…
