What was formerly known as Project Aura is now dubbed ‘Xreal Aura,’ launching in the fall. Xreal Aura offers the newly announced Snapdragon Reality Elite platform, alongside deep Gemini and Android XR integration and offers a lightweight optical see-through wired XR glasses design.
Xreal has announced several new partners that are building for this new system. Partnerships include Amazon MGM Studios developing a new game called Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars, tied to the film with the same name. Fallout Factions is a new tabletop game from Modiphius Entertainment that’s based in the Fallout universe. The Nutcracker: A Spatial Awakening is a full-scale spatial preservation of legacy ballet developed by the San Francisco Ballet and YBVR in partnership with Google and Xreal. DB Creations is currently developing three XR Games for Xreal Aura, Robot Repair, Tiny Motors Arcade and Table Towers.
Xreal is also working and partnering with developers for productivity, learning, enterprise and healthcare apps as well. Xreal is targeting a wave 1 launch this fall for Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, South Korea and additional European markets. Early adopters can reserve Aura for the U.S. with a US$299 (C$418) deposit. Canadian pricing hasn’t been revealed yet.
I spent a mere seven minutes with Xreal Aura last month, and I’m already a huge fan. Get all of the coolness and features of Samsung’s Galaxy XR, in a smaller package, sign me up.
Xreal Aura offers a 70-degree FOV, weighs 95g, and offers optical see-through frames designed for immersive mixed reality. It also has 6DoF tracking and multimodal AI Experiences with user permission, and more.
