Google and Xreal’s ‘Project Aura’ XR Smart Glasses Are Legit

I came to Google I/O 2026 to try out Google and Xreal’s “Project Aura” XR smart glasses and I’m happy to report that I got more than 90 seconds with them . Launching globally this year , Project Aura is a pair of XR smart glasses that run on Google’s Android XR spatial platform.

Google and Xreal’s ‘Project Aura’ XR Smart Glasses Are Legit. I came to Google I/O 2026 to try out Google and Xreal’s “Project Aura” XR smart glasses and I’m happy to report that I got more than 90 seconds with them . Launching globally this year , Project Aura is a pair of XR smart glasses that run on Google’s Android XR spatial platform. While neither company shared details on pricing or a specific release date yet, media like myself did get to demo them to get a taste of what to expect. They’re exactly as I expected them to be: a halfway point between the displayless smart glasses like Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses (and Google’s and Samsung’s new “audio glasses” ) and a more immersive headset like the Vision Pro or Galaxy XR . You get “spatial computing” experience in a pair of compact frames. Slipping them onto my face, Project Aura felt no...