RayNeo X2 — specification and verdict
The X2 puts two full-colour micro-LED waveguides in a 120 g glasses frame, driven by an on-board Snapdragon XR2 with 6 GB of RAM, so nothing is tethered to a phone or a PC. What the wearer actually gets is 640x480 per eye inside a 25-degree diagonal window at 1,000 nits: bright enough to read outdoors, but a panel that size holds a navigation arrow, a translated caption or a two-line instruction, not a diagram or a procedure sheet. There is no controller in the box and no hand tracking; input is the temple touch surface, voice, and the bundled RayNeo Ring. Our VR training courses do not run on it — they are immersive Android VR applications and the X2 has no stereo scene to place them in. As a device to look at while you work, rather than a device to train in, it reads short text and overlays a route.
RayNeo's own product page now lists the X2 at $499 and marks it Sold Out, and the store's own product data files it under discontinued products, so there is no supply channel to standardise a fleet on. It was sold in the United States only; there was never a Polish or German retail listing, which means no local warranty and no RMA path for a company here. There is no vendor MDM and no kiosk mode: the documented way to get your own software onto it is ADB, and on firmware 1.2.66 and later you first have to run `adb shell settings put global mercury_install_allowed 1` per device, by hand. Battery is 590 mAh and about an hour with the display in constant use, so any shift-long use means a charging rota rather than a hot-swap. Hygiene is whatever you do with a plastic spectacle frame; there is no swappable facial interface to replace between trainees.
Do not buy the X2 for training. It is discontinued, US-only, has no fleet management, and a 25-degree 640x480 display cannot carry instructional content. If you want assisted-reality glasses, look at a current shipping model with a European channel; if you want our courses, you need a standalone VR headset, not this.
How it compares within its class
The axis runs from the lowest to the highest published figure among the AR — spatial devices in this catalogue. The grey tick is the median of that class.
Median for this class: 1500 nits, from 3 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: $1900, from 9 models that publish the figure.
Full specification
An em dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure.
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- RayNeo (TCL)
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- AR — spatial
- Device typeWhere the computing happens, and therefore what you need to run it.
- Standalone AR
- AnnouncedThe day it was shown, which is not the day it shipped.
- 2023-01-04
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2024
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- Discontinued
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: not published by the manufacturer
- DisplayHow the image is produced. "No display" is a real answer in this category, not a gap.
- Waveguide
- Eyes coveredOne eye or both. Over a full shift this is a real difference in fatigue.
- Both eyes
- Resolution per eyePixels delivered to each eye. Higher means small text and labels stay readable.
- ≈640x480*UploadVR review
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- Refresh rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- ≈25° diagonal*VRcompare estimate
- Pixel densityPixels per degree of view — the honest way to compare sharpness between a headset and a pair of glasses. Higher is sharper. Only shown where somebody published it; we never compute it ourselves.
- Pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- BrightnessIn a plant or outdoors, brightness decides legibility more than resolution does.
- 1000 nits
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- ≈120 g*UploadVR review
- Visible field of viewWhat the eye actually sees through the optics, by axis.
- Visible field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Rendered field of viewWhat the device draws. Never smaller than what you see.
- Rendered field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Binocular overlapWhere both eyes see the same thing — this is where depth happens.
- Binocular overlap: not published by the manufacturer
- Average pixel densityPixels per degree across the image. More is sharper.
- Average pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Peak pixel densityThe sharpest point, usually the centre of the lens.
- Peak pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Subpixel layoutHow the coloured dots sit in a pixel. A stripe looks cleaner on text than PenTile.
- RGB stripe · 3 subpixels per pixel
- Foveated renderingWhether detail is dropped outside where you look, to save performance.
- Foveated rendering: not published by the manufacturer
- Vision correctionHow somebody who wears glasses uses it, and in what dioptre range.
- Vision correction: not published by the manufacturer
- DimensionsWidth, height and depth of the device itself.
- 190.5 × 66.5 × 165.5 mm
- Weight with strapWith the strap it ships with — the weight you actually wear.
- Weight with strap: not published by the manufacturer
- Head strapSoft band or a rigid one. Decides how the weight sits over an hour.
- Glasses frame
- MaterialsShell and facial interface, in the vendor’s words.
- plastic
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Black
- Haptics in the headsetVibration in the headset itself, not in the controllers.
- Haptics in the headset: not published by the manufacturer
- TrackingWhether content stays put in the room (6DoF), follows head rotation (3DoF) or is simply fixed.
- 6DoF (position in space)
- Tracking camerasHow many cameras it uses to know where it is.
- Tracking cameras: not published by the manufacturer
- Tracking rateHow often position is recalculated. Higher is steadier.
- Tracking rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Depth sensorA dedicated sensor for distance, on top of the cameras.
- Depth sensor: not published by the manufacturer
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- No
- Face trackingTracks facial expression — for avatars, not for training scenarios.
- Face tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Body trackingHow much of the body the device knows about. Estimated legs are not tracked legs.
- Body tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Controllers includedWhether motion controllers come in the box, or are bought separately — or the device is hands-only.
- No
- Controller modelThe manufacturer's own name for the controller.
- Controller model: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller tracking6DoF controllers track position and rotation, so a hand reaches in space; 3DoF only point. “None” means hands only.
- None (hands only)
- Finger tracking on the controllerWhether the controller senses individual fingers, and how.
- Finger tracking on the controller: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller inputsButtons, sticks and triggers the controller offers.
- Controller inputs: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller hapticsVibration feedback in the hand.
- Controller haptics: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller powerDisposable cells or a built-in rechargeable — a fleet question.
- Controller power: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller weightOne controller, as the vendor weighs it.
- Controller weight: not published by the manufacturer
- Other input methodsWays in beyond controllers and bare hands.
- Voice · Touchpad on the temple · Ring
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Standalone (own computer)
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2
- CPUCores and clocks, where the manufacturer publishes them.
- Octa-core Kryo 585 (1 x 2.84 GHz, 3 x 2.42 GHz, 4 x 1.8 GHz)
- GPUThe graphics part of the chip.
- Adreno 650
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- 6 GB
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Android
- SD card slotWhether storage can be added with a card.
- SD card slot: not published by the manufacturer
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- ≈60 min*UploadVR review (display in constant use)
- Battery capacity (Wh)Energy in the cell. Bigger is longer, given the same power draw.
- Battery capacity (Wh): not published by the manufacturer
- Battery capacity (mAh)The same fact in the other unit vendors use. We never convert between the two.
- 590 mAh
- Charge timeFrom empty to full. Rarely stated by the manufacturer, so it usually comes from whoever timed it.
- Charge time: not published by the manufacturer
- ChargerPower of the supplied charger — it decides the charge time above.
- Charger: not published by the manufacturer
- External batteryBattery on a cable or a puck instead of on the head.
- External battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Charging caseExtra runtime carried in the case the glasses ship with.
- Charging case: not published by the manufacturer
- Hot-swap batteryWhether a charged battery can replace the empty one without ending the session. This is what decides if a headset can hold an all-day training station.
- Hot-swap battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Third-party appsHow a third party's application reaches the device: an ordinary Android package, a vendor-only SDK, or not at all.
- Ordinary Android app (APK)
- Runs Skillsive appsOur own statement about whether Skillsive training applications run on it today.
- No
- Suitable for trainingOur judgement on whether it survives real deployment: comfort, hygiene, fleet management.
- No
- Kiosk mode / MDMVendor tooling to enrol devices, push an app and lock the headset to it. Practically required above ten devices.
- No
- Business tierAn official business tier, so devices belong to the company rather than to employees’ personal accounts.
- No
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Certifications: not published by the manufacturer
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- USB Type-C
- Wi-FiThe Wi-Fi generation — it decides how well wireless streaming holds up.
- Wi-Fi 5
- BluetoothFor controllers, headphones and accessories.
- 5.2
- Video from a computerWhether a computer can drive it, over a cable or wirelessly.
- Video from a computer: not published by the manufacturer
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Built-in speakers
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Yes
- MicrophonesHow many. An array picks a voice out of a noisy hall; one does not.
- 3
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- Yes
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Mid range
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- $850
- Price by configurationWhat each configuration cost at launch.
- Price by configuration: not published by the manufacturer
- Price todayApproximate current net price in USD — a general figure, since these barely differ between regions once tax is stripped out. A snapshot from the date shown, not an offer.
- $499
Who this device is for
The X2 makes sense only for an R&D or innovation team that already owns one and wants to see what a full-colour binocular waveguide looks like in daylight. Anyone planning an actual deployment — a rollout with spare units, warranty and remote management — is looking at the wrong device, because RayNeo has stopped selling it and never sold it in the EU.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
RayNeo publishes neither the panel resolution nor the field of view; the 640x480 per eye and 25 degrees diagonal here come from UploadVR and VRcompare, not from the maker, and so does the 120 g weight. The page's marketing copy claims up to 1,500 nits while its own specification table says 1,000 — we recorded 1,000. RayNeo also never published a discontinuation date, an end-of-support date or a firmware-update commitment, and the X2 FAQ is silent on all three, so how long the device keeps receiving system updates is unknown.
RayNeo X2 — frequently asked questions
- Can you still buy the RayNeo X2 in 2026?
- No. RayNeo's own store lists the X2 at $499 and marks it Sold Out, and its product data files it under discontinued products; the X3 Pro replaced it. It was a US-only product, so there was never an official Polish or German listing to fall back on.
- How do you install your own Android app on the RayNeo X2?
- Over ADB from a PC. RayNeo's X2 FAQ documents it and adds that on system version 1.2.66 and later you must first enable installs with `adb shell settings put global mercury_install_allowed 1`. That is per device and manual — there is no vendor MDM to push builds to a fleet.
- Can the RayNeo X2 show a VR training course?
- No. Its 25-degree diagonal, 640x480-per-eye waveguides are made for a navigation arrow or a translated caption, and there is no controller and no hand tracking. Our courses are immersive Android VR applications and need a standalone VR headset with 6DoF controllers.
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