XREAL AURA, the company’s next flagship AR glasses built in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm, is coming this fall at a price the company says will “not exceed $1,500, excluding applicable taxes.”
Previously known as ‘Project Aura’, Xreal Aura will one of first to include Qualcomm’s recently announced Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset, something Qualcomm says will offer up to a 60% increase in GPU performance, a 30% increase in CPU performance, and a 160% increase in neural processing performance compared with Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset released in 2024.
As we saw at its unveiling last year, Xreal Aura features a wired, split-compute architecture, housing both Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset for XR processing and AI workloads, and Xreal’s in-house X1S Spatial Coprocessor for managing display and sensor processing.
Like all of Xreal’s XR glasses, Aura is based on birdbath optics, delivering a 70-degree field-of-view (FOV) in a package that weighs less than 95 grams of on-head weight.
Supporting six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking, hand tracking, and multimodal AI experiences, Xreal Aura runs Android XR, which comes part and parcel with Google’s Gemini AI assistant.
And because Aura runs Android XR, users will have access to existing Android applications through the Google Play Store, alongside a growing catalog of applications designed specifically for extended reality. You can learn more by catching our initial hands-on with Aura from December.
Xreal now says Aura will launch sometime in fall 2026, noting on its reservation page that the final retail price of the base model “will not exceed US$1,500, excluding applicable taxes,” with supported countries including the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, and selected countries in EU.
The company is offering two distinct reservation formats; a ‘Founder Priority Pass’ for $300 that guarantees first batch shipments and goes to the final price (limited to 2,000 units), and a $100 reservation fee for later shipments that will turn into a $200 discount off the final price.
XREAL also said more than 100 applications built specifically for XR are already in development and that additional partners are working on software experiences for the new platform.
