XREAL · 2026 · AR — spatial
XREAL Aura
XREAL stops making wearable monitors and builds real AR — announced, unpriced.
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Aura is the first XREAL device that is not a screen you wear. It runs Android XR with 6DoF tracking and hand tracking, which means content stays where you put it in the room rather than floating in front of your face. The optics are birdbath again — XREAL’s house design, and the reason the field of view is 70 degrees rather than the 50 of the One — behind dual micro-OLED panels. Compute is split: XREAL’s own X1S chip sits in the glasses and drives the display, while a Snapdragon Reality Elite in a separate puck does the Android XR work. XREAL has said the finished glasses will weigh under 95 grams and cost no more than 1,500 US dollars. Both of those are ceilings, not figures, so neither is in the table above: a weight and a price are things you measure, and XREAL has published neither. Reservations are open at a 99-dollar deposit.
For a training fleet the interesting part is the platform: Android XR takes an ordinary Android package, which is the same door our courses already walk through on PICO and Meta hardware. What does not exist yet is everything around it — no device, no device management, no enterprise programme, and a compute puck that is one more thing to charge and lose in a shared room. So the honest answer to "will our courses run on it" is no, today, and "probably, eventually" is not something this table is willing to say. Watch for two announcements: a price, and whether XREAL ships anything resembling fleet tooling.
What is known: the platform, the display and optics, the field of view, the split-compute design and a fall 2026 window. What is not: the price, the weight, the battery life, and the entire enterprise story. The reason to keep an eye on this one is that it is the first Android XR device with a genuinely wide field of view at a consumer-adjacent price ceiling — if XREAL lands it, the gap between "wearable monitor" and "spatial computer" gets a lot cheaper to cross. There is nothing to buy yet, and nothing to plan a rollout around.
Full specification
Overview
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- XREAL
- 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.
- AR with a compute puck
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2026
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- Announced for 2026-Q4
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Company rollout
- 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.
- Suitable for training: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- 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.
- Business tier: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Certifications: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Platform and performance
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Driven by a belt-worn puck
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Processor: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- Memory: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Android XR
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- Battery: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Display and optics
- DisplayHow the image is produced. "No display" is a real answer in this category, not a gap.
- Birdbath optics
- 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.
- Resolution per eye: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- Refresh rate: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- 70°
- 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: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- BrightnessIn a plant or outdoors, brightness decides legibility more than resolution does.
- Brightness: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- Weight: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Tracking and input
- TrackingWhether content stays put in the room (6DoF), follows head rotation (3DoF) or is simply fixed.
- 6DoF (position in space)
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- Yes
Connectivity and audio
- ConnectivityHow it connects to a phone, a PC or a network.
- Connectivity: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Audio: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Microphone: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- Yes
Price
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Price band: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- Launch price: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- 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.
- Price today: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
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