Xreal Air 2 Extremely are true AR glasses, however they solely work with two particular Samsung telephones.
Xreal, previously Nreal, is a China-based firm that really launched the primary client AR glasses within the US, Nreal Gentle, in late 2021. Since 2022 Xreal has centered on its Air line of media glasses, which till now all lacked positional monitoring or true AR functionality, as an alternative simply mirroring linked units to a head-locked digital monitor.
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Xreal Air 2 Extremely, introduced right this moment, is the official successor to the Nreal Gentle. It guarantees true AR – the power to put digital objects in your actual surroundings, not only a floating overlay.
Whereas Nreal Gentle might solely detect flat planes such flooring and tables, Xreal Air 2 Extremely can apparently generate a 3D mesh of your room, as Meta Quest 3 and high-end AR units like Magic Leap 2 can.
Along with scene meshing, Xreal can be promising hand monitoring, everlasting spatial anchors, and arbitrary 2D picture monitoring.
Xreal describes the 2 elements that allow all this, positioned on the temples of the glasses, as “3D surroundings sensors”. It is unclear what precisely this implies and we have reached out to Xreal for an evidence. They appear to be they could possibly be fisheye grayscale cameras, which is what most XR units use for laptop imaginative and prescient performance like monitoring.
The OLED microdisplays in Air 2 Extremely are the identical as in Air 2 Professional, 1080p with 120Hz refresh price and 500 nits of brightness. And like Air 2 Professional, the lenses function adjustable electrochromatic dimming, toggled with a button on the facet.
The sphere of view of the Air 2 Extremely optics is barely bigger than the opposite Air glasses, at 45°×25°, in comparison with 40°×22°.
That is nonetheless a considerably narrower subject of view than what you’d get from opaque headsets with passthrough cameras similar to Meta Quest 3 and the upcoming Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, which have horizontal and vertical subject of views roughly round 100°. In follow, as we famous in our evaluation of the unique Nreal Gentle, which means you may typically solely see partial segments of digital objects, and you will typically lose observe of which objects are in your room and the place they’re.
Xreal says Air 2 Extremely is at the moment primarily supposed for builders, as there will not be a lot AR content material at launch and the SDK will obtain important upgrades within the coming months.
The glasses at the moment are out there for preorder within the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Czechia, Japan, South Korea, and China for $700. The corporate claims transport will start in March.
There’s an essential caveat right here although. Air glasses usually are not standalone units, and Air 2 Extremely can solely be pushed in true AR “spatial computing” mode by a Samsung Galaxy S23 or Galaxy S22 telephone through a tethered USB-C cable. The Exynos mannequin of the Galaxy S22 offered in Europe is not supported.
Xreal says it is also engaged on a compute puck for individuals who do not personal these telephones, although it does not but have a timeline to ship this or an estimated worth.