XREAL’s Android XR glasses will cost under $1,500, which isn’t as expensive as it sounds

Skip to main content XREAL Aura, the company’s first pair of Android XR glasses, are officially set to launch this Fall, but we don’t have a price just yet. All we know is that, according to XREAL, Aura will cost under $1,500. As we covered earlier this afternoon, XREAL Aura reservations are now open.

Customers can pay $99 or $299 to hold their spot for the “portable spatial computing glasses, powered by Android XR,” as XREAL puts it. XREAL’s Android XR glasses launch ‘this fall’ with Project Hail Mary & Fallout games, $99 reservations open But what’s the actual final cost? That’s to be determined, but XREAL has confirmed the price won’t go beyond $1,500, at least for the base model.

A footnote explains: Advertisement - scroll for more content The final retail price of the base model will not exceed US$1,500, excluding applicable taxes. It’s rather likely that $1,500 is the price XREAL is aiming for, but it’s very possible that this all depends on market conditions. With how unstable the cost of certain components such as memory has been, XREAL could be hoping for a lower price, but saying $1,500 to give itself some wiggle room.

And, realistically, that seems like a fair price. XREAL One Pro sells for $599 following a recent price cut, and it’s not quite as advanced as XREAL Aura from a hardware perspective. The Android XR system has a wider field-of-view, an included puck with battery and computing smarts, as well as built-in cameras.

If you include XREAL Eye, a camera system add-on, and XREAL Beam Pro, an Android phone used to power the glasses, you land somewhere in the $900-950 ballpark, only a few hundred short of XREAL Aura’s project price tag. Is it a good value? That’s up to you, but comparing it to XREAL’s existing hardware shows that a $1,500 price tag is at least not totally crazy.

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