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The Wall Street Publication > Blog > U.S > Xreal and Google debut aura AR glasses to rival Meta’s Orion plan
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Xreal and Google debut aura AR glasses to rival Meta’s Orion plan

Editorial Board Published May 21, 2025
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By Mark Gurman, Bloomeberg

Alphabet’s Google has entered the glasses race by partnering with Xreal Inc. on the primary spectacles to run an augmented-reality model of its working system.

On the Google I/O convention on Tuesday, the search large and Chinese language good glasses maker confirmed builders what they name Venture Aura, the primary eyewear that can run Android XR.

The brand new working system was introduced in December with the objective of mimicking the Android expertise on a variety of gadgets. That features enclosed mixed-reality headsets; glasses with augmented actuality, or AR; and spectacles with cameras however no capacity to view content material. That month, Google and Samsung Electronics Co. teased a headset referred to as Venture Moohan.

The Aura glasses are anticipated to launch for shoppers between the tip of this 12 months and early subsequent 12 months, Xu stated. Samsung and Meta haven’t introduced pricing for his or her upcoming gadgets, however they’re more likely to price a number of 1000’s of {dollars}. Venture Aura ought to be significantly cheaper, Xu stated. The corporate’s present AR glasses, which plug right into a telephone via a cable, vary from $200 to $600.

Individually, Meta has had success promoting non-AR good glasses co-branded with Ray-Ban. A model with a built-in show is more likely to be priced within the $1,000 to $1,400 vary once they launch this 12 months.

“We can easily build more advanced and more affordable hardware than Orion,” Xu stated. “This is something we’re really good at. What we’re missing is the content.”

Venture Aura will likely be “a lightweight, optical-see-through device that gives users access to their favorite Android apps,” stated Shahram Izadi, common supervisor and vice chairman of XR at Google, who added that it will likely be out there for builders first in order that they “can begin creating experiences overlaid in the real world with the familiar tools they use to build Android apps.”

Like Meta’s Orion prototype, the Xreal Android XR glasses will likely be powered by a separate puck that homes the primary processor, which is made by Qualcomm Inc. They’ll have one other chip inside the top unit itself for processing duties that require low latency, similar to photographs. Xu stated the long-term imaginative and prescient is to shift the computational load from a puck to a linked telephone. However for now, the puck serves an vital precedence of AR machine makers: to make their merchandise as gentle and low-cost as attainable.

Android XR is essential to Google’s future because it seems to new bets to reinforce its Android enterprise for smartphones. The corporate has additionally expanded its working programs to TVs, vehicles and good dwelling gadgets, with plans to adapt the underlying know-how for robots as effectively. Google is a laggard within the mixed-reality area, which melds AR with digital actuality, however a demo of its Moohan prototype with Samsung final 12 months confirmed promise.

Google is taking the identical method it has with telephones prior to now, trying to accomplice with key {hardware} manufacturers slightly than beginning off with in-house gadgets. In the same association to the tie-up with Samsung, Google is offering the AR working system whereas Xreal is growing the Aura glasses {hardware} by itself.

“If you look at the iPhone, when it was first introduced, it had the best hardware and a stunning operating system,” Xu stated, including that he believes early adopters will use the upcoming glasses for each leisure and productiveness functions. “Right now, we have both at this moment by working with Google. This is the best marriage you can get for AR and AI.”

Initially Revealed: Might 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM PDT

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