Let’s check out some details on Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses. Xreal, formerly Nreal, is a China-based company that actually launched the first consumer AR glasses in the US, Nreal Light, in late 2021. Since 2022 Xreal has focused on its Airline of media glasses, which until now all lacked positional tracking or true AR capability, instead just mirroring connected devices to a head-locked virtual monitor.
Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses:
Xreal, formerly Nreal, hosted one of the busiest booths at CES in recent years, so it’s no surprise that the company is back with new AR glasses for CES 2024 — especially given the much anticipated launch of Apple’s Vision Pro. Following the Nreal Light from 2019, the brand new Xreal Air 2 Ultra finally brings back 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) spatial tracking and hand tracking, along with a wider 52-degree FOV (field of view) and a 42-pixel-per-degree sharpness within an 80-gram titanium package. The firm goes as far as claiming that these specs make the $699 Air 2 Ultra a compelling alternative to the $3,499 Vision Pro.
Xreal refers to the two parts that make all of this possible as “3D environment sensors” and they are situated on the glasses’ temples. We have contacted Xreal to inquire about an explanation as we are unsure of the precise meaning of this. These appear to be fisheye grayscale cameras, which are the standard for computer vision features like tracking on XR devices.
Xreal important features:
The OLED microdisplays in the Air 2 Ultra and Air 2 Pro have the same specs: 1080p, 500 nits of brightness, 120Hz refresh rate. The lenses also have movable electrochromatic dimming, which can be turned on and off with a button on the side, just like the Air 2 Pro.
The Air 2 Ultra lenses have a slightly wider field of view than the other Air glasses, measuring 45° x 25° as opposed to 40° x 22°.
For $700, you can preorder the glasses right now in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Czechia, Japan, South Korea, and China. According to the corporation, shipping will start in March.
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However, there’s an important caution here. The Air 2 Ultra can only be powered in genuine AR “spatial computing” mode by a Samsung Galaxy S23 or Galaxy S22 phone via a tethered USB-C cable. Xreal’s glasses are not stand-alone devices. Support is not available for the Galaxy S22 Exynos model that is offered in Europe.
For those without those phones, Xreal claims to be developing a computing puck. However, it has not yet disclosed a pricing or a shipping date for this product.
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