XREAL today announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, has now surpassed 10,000 global reservations.
Xreal says the reservation milestone for the company’s latest flagship AR glasses has shown “strong early demand across consumers, developers, and enterprise customers,” as the initial $99 reservation offer for a $199 launch credit has now sold out.
That said, Aura still doesn’t have final pricing, which could affect some of those 10,000+ refundable reservations when all is said and done. The company has said however Aura will “not exceed $1,500, excluding applicable taxes.”
Like all of Xreal’s XR glasses up to this point, Aura is based on birdbath optics, which feature a fairly large 70-degree field-of-view (FOV) in a package that weighs less than 95 grams of on-head weight.
Notably, that on-head weight is offset by a pocketable compute unit, which tethers to the glasses’ via cable; Aura features a split-compute architecture, including both Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset for XR processing and AI workloads, and Xreal’s in-house X1S Spatial Coprocessor for managing display and sensor processing.
And unlike some birdbath-based AR glasses that focus on displaying traditional content on a virtual screen, Aura supports six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking, hand tracking, and multimodal AI experiences, all of which run on Google’s Android XR operating system, giving users access to existing Android applications via the Play Store as well as a growing catalog of XR applications.
While Aura is slated to launch sometime in Fall 2026, Xreal says we’ll learn more about pricing and availability in the coming weeks, as $199 refundable deposits are still open.
In the meantime, check out out initial hands-on with Aura from December where we discuss field of view, sharpness, brightness, electronic lens dimming and more.
