Xreal’s closest competitor introduced 4 new show glasses, together with one with a 58° diagonal area of view and 1250 nits brightness.
What Are Show Glasses?
Show glasses primarily act as head-worn displays, displaying video enter (by way of DisplayPort or HDMI to USB-C) on a big digital display. For instance, you possibly can join your telephone and think about Netflix, or your Steam Deck to play video games.
Till pretty lately, all show glasses had been head-locked when used with the vast majority of enter gadgets. However now, many embody built-in 3DoF monitoring, which means the display stays in place if you rotate your head, and a few even embody 6DoF monitoring by way of equipment.
All show glasses thus far amplify a tiny micro-OLED show to a roughly 40-60 diploma diagonal area of view utilizing a curved mirror or prism block. The previous is known as “birdbath” optics, and the latter is technically referred to as flat-prism, although it is usually grouped with birdbath.
Not like the waveguides utilized in AR glasses, show glasses optics are inherently thick, and noticeably sit out out of your face. Additionally they block out round 80% of real-world mild at minimal, so cannot be used as common eyewear when not in use.
Whereas we have lined Xreal earlier than on UploadVR, the main show glasses firm by international market share, we have not but lined Viture, which holds second place. That is partially as a result of we lack the time to report on every thing we might ideally need to, and partially as a result of there have not been vital variations – till now.
Again in December, Xreal launched the Xreal One collection with built-in 3DoF, and the Xreal One Professional with industry-leading 57° diagonal area of view. Now, this month, Viture has introduced its response.
Over the subsequent few months, Viture is launching a whopping 4 totally different show glasses fashions: Luma, Luma Professional, Luma Extremely, and one it merely calls The Beast.
All 4 new Viture glasses have greater decision than Xreal, 1200p in comparison with 1080p, in addition to greater brightness, between 1000 and 1250 nits in comparison with 600-700 nits.
I attempted all 4 fashions at AWE 2025 final month, and got here away totally impressed, significantly with the brightness. It made for a noticeably extra vibrant digital display than Xreal One Professional, and bolstered my view that brightness is a deeply underappreciated specification for head-mounted shows.
| FOV (Diagonal) | Decision | Brightness | Worth | |
| Xreal One | 50° | 1080p | 600 nits | $500 |
| Xreal One Professional | 57° | 1080p | 700 nits | $600 |
| Viture Luma | 50° | 1200p | 1000 nits | $400 |
| Viture Luma Professional | 52° | 1200p | 1000 nits | $500 |
| Viture Luma Extremely | 52° | 1200p | 1250 nits | $600 |
| Viture The Beast | 58° | 1200p | 1250 nits | $550 |
What’s considerably complicated, although, is the scenario in terms of monitoring.
Not one of the Luma fashions have built-in 3DoF, which means when you merely plug your telephone in and open Netflix, the show might be absolutely head-locked. The exception is when you purchase the Viture XR Charging Adapter and keep inside Viture’s SpaceWalker app.
Luma Professional does have a central coloration digital camera that helps fundamental 6DoF in SpaceWalker too, considerably just like Xreal Eye however restricted to Viture’s app. And Luma Extremely uniquely additionally has greyscale fisheye cameras on the temples for high-quality 6DoF head monitoring and hand monitoring, however solely in Home windows, Mac, and the Viture Professional Neckband, an optionally available compute unit working a fork of Android.
In the meantime, The Beast has true built-in 3DoF, identical to the Xreal One collection, in addition to a central coloration digital camera for the fundamental 6DoF in SpaceWalker, however lacks the fisheye cameras on the aspect.
| Constructed-In 3DoF | Central Colour Digital camera | Aspect Monitoring Cameras | |
| Xreal One | ✅ | $100 | ❌ |
| Xreal One Professional | ✅ | $100 | ❌ |
| Viture Luma | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Viture Luma Professional | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Viture Luma Extremely | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Viture The Beast | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
This is when the 4 new Viture glasses might be obtainable to buy:
- Luma: September, for $400
- Luma Professional: now, already, for $500
- Luma Extremely: August, for $600
- The Beast: October, for $550
Xreal Mission Aura Helps Android XR Through Tethered Puck
Xreal’s Mission Aura will assist Google’s Android XR by way of a tethered compute puck with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.
At AWE I used to be additionally in a position to attempt an early prototype of a roughly 70° diagonal system that Viture hopes to ship subsequent 12 months. I’ve lengthy been a critic of the sphere of view of show glasses, mentioning that the advertising and marketing claims of “huge” digital shows had been deceptive, however what I noticed crossed a threshold the place I can see these gadgets changing into an important a part of our {industry}.
That 70° determine matches what Xreal is teasing for its Mission Aura glasses, set to reach subsequent 12 months with a tethered compute puck working Google’s Android XR. Whereas Viture has its personal Viture Professional Neckband compute unit, it would not at the moment have any introduced plans for Android XR, although I might be shocked if the corporate wasn’t in talks with Google already.
