Xreal’s new AR glasses are aimed at the Apple Vision Pro
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The Air 2 Ultra bring back full-fledged tracking capabilities. | Image: Xreal Augmented reality company Xreal has revealed a new entry in its Air glasses lineup: the $699 Air 2 Ultra. The Air 2 Ultra glasses, which developers can preorder today for shipment starting in March, are ultimately meant to compete with Meta's Quest 3 and Apple's Vision Pro headsets. They're more full-featured than the $399 Air 2 model that Xreal - formerly Nreal - launched late last year, offering full positional (six degrees of freedom, or 6DOF) tracking in Xreal's typical sunglasses-style form factor. That makes them ripe for not just watching TV or playing flat-screen games on a projected screen but also running immersive AR apps, which is exactly what Xreal hopes developers will do with them.
Xreal pitches the Air 2 Ultra as a...