After the somewhat lukewarm reception following the Apple Vision Pro launch, I got a bit hesitant about the future of AR for a moment. Now that I took the upcoming Xreal Air 2 Ultra for a spin, ...
launch, I got a bit hesitant about the future of AR for a moment. Now that I took the upcomingUltra glasses for a spin, though, I think AR is alive and well! It's getting better than ever, actually, and while we're certainly still very early in the AR journey, theUltra is the upcoming top-of-the-life model in Xreal's Air line.
The Air 2 Ultra feel light! They weight about 80 grams, which is ever so slightly heavier than the sensor-less Air 2 Pro, but these are still very similar in terms of shape, feel and weight to normal sunglasses. In contrast, Apple's, which is obviously a way more technologically sophisticated piece of hardware, is in the 600-650 grams range. That means the Air 2 Ultra are real spatial computing glasses that you can wear for a really long time without getting fatigued.
Because of that, they can't quite serve the purpose of a normal pair of sunglasses just yet, and they definitely don't look very stylish from the side. The front is a different story – they tend to successfully emulate a normal wayfarer type of look when seen from the front. Which is great! It means we're halfway there on the road to create the perfect AR glasses from design standpoint.
Another demo allowed me to interact with 3D objects using my own hands and doing a pinching gesture, akin to the. This one was far from flawless: while the glasses did a good job of smoothly displaying 3D avatars of my hands as I moved them around, the precision seemed to be somewhat lacking when it came to pinching 3D objects and moving them around. It worked, but it wasn't exactly seemless.
Another push of the button dims the glasses to 100%, which makes them really black , and this mode allows for the best visibility of whatever you're viewing on the glasses. This will be the most immersive mode for media consumption use cases like watching movies. Will it be worth it? Depends on whether Xreal will be successful in partnering with developers to create a meaningful and useful AR / spatial computing system of apps. The hardware is good, but the software is clearly not there yet, which is why this will be Xreal's most critical objective right now. Get enough developers on board to build enough useful apps.
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