XREAL’s Android XR glasses one-up Apple’s wired battery with a controller, more [Video]

Google says the first Android XR display glasses aren’t coming until 2027, which makes me all the more excited to check out XREAL’s upcoming Project Aura hardware and, at I/O, we’re getting more details about those glasses, including how they one-up Apple’s Vision Pro by turning the wired battery into the brains of the experience, and a controller too.

XREAL’s Android XR glasses one-up Apple’s wired battery with a controller, more [Video]. Google says the first Android XR display glasses aren’t coming until 2027, which makes me all the more excited to check out XREAL’s upcoming Project Aura hardware and, at I/O, we’re getting more details about those glasses, including how they one-up Apple’s Vision Pro by turning the wired battery into the brains of the experience, and a controller too. As we covered earlier this week, XREAL Project Aura is on display over at Google I/O 2026, and the first demos are revealing more about the hardware for these Android XR glasses. Of course, like other XREAL glasses, these don’t fit the “normal” definition of smart glasses, instead acting more like a headset that also happens to have the ability to see through the contents of the display – “passthrough,”...