A first look at Google’s Project Aura glasses built with Xreal

Google provided this photograph of Project Aura, arsenic we were not allowed to instrumentality our own. | Photo: Google, Xreal

Teased astatine Google I/O, Project Aura is simply a collaboration betwixt Xreal and Google. It's the 2nd Android XR instrumentality (the archetypal being Samsung's Galaxy XR headset) and is expected to motorboat successful 2026. Putting it on, I get wherefore the word "smart glasses" doesn't precisely fit.

Is it a headset? Smart glasses? Both? Those were the questions moving done my caput arsenic I held Project Aura successful my hands successful a caller demo. It looked similar a brace of chunky sunglasses, but for the cord dangling disconnected the near side, starring down to a artillery battalion that besides served arsenic a trackpad. When I asked, Google's reps told maine they see it a headset masquerading arsenic glasses. …

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