I tried the future of smart glasses in WWDC. It was not made by Apple


On a bright sunny day in Cobino, California, I crushed my seat, and opened my laptop, connected to the Wi-Fi network and has been recorded on Slack. Apple WWDC key He was about to start. This time, however, I added a new step to my country Cover direct event routine. I connected Xreal One Pro in my MacBook and activated Dimmer. They have become smart sunglasses that support the width.

Over the following two hours, Apple ads were covered in Xreal, and I did better than I expected. One positives showed the laptop screen clearly, and the glow that would have overwhelmed the laptop screen and allowed me to watch the theater’s show at the same time. And improvement: by activating the automatic transparency of Xreal, the glasses were reduced when I looked at my virtual screen, and then became transparent again when I looked at the stage to follow the procedure.

The future of AR glasses was not really useful here, but Wow, with things like Xreal One Pro, he is approaching.

A pair of Xreal One Pro glasses at the airport

Xreal One Pros with USB-C, but it can offer larger than before. (It appears here with the separate eye camera connected under the bridge.)

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Xreal glasses, like all glasses in this product category, are used, a USB-C cable to connect anything you connect. Basically, it is a small screen that can be worn with glasses in the form of glasses. Whatever the device that supports the USB-C video will work with these glasses, either to reflect your screen or work as a second watch.

Although I used Xreal glasses to watch movies on aircraft (really enjoyable and mobile) and work on the laptop and iPad (useful on the aircraft as well, since the space can be tight, and that my laptop cover does not always open fully in the economy), and the idea of ​​covering a full alive event where you need to be fast, effective, and the lack of a different story. I am pleased to say that the experience has succeeded, to a large extent because of the automatic transparency situation I did not realize before – Thank you, Nurim Chan It was testedWho told me about it while we sat in the keyword.

Xreal glasses have three self -lens settings that run external glass, either almost transparent or close to non -transparent. It makes it immediate sunglasses and also helps to appear better in bright sunlight. However, these glasses will not prevent completely outside the light – the light bleeds slightly through the lettuce lenses unless you are sitting in a completely dark place – but the image is still very displayable, and looks good.

Make transparency really look at the theater and your laptop keyboard (and my phone) is easier. Xreal glasses are not like regular glasses: they have layers of lenses, including the medical inserts that you stacked at the top. But it can be used to look around, and check messages, even (as I did) to shoot some social videos while flying and sharing them with the social CNET team.

Besides transparency, other adjustments include screen size, projection distance, screen location, and whether they are based or float in my viewing field.

Xreal One Pro and Xreal One Corses alongside a table

Xreal One (left) next to Pro with the attached eye camera (right). They work and look almost.

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One for professionals for one: hidden differences

I have reviewed Change the Pro Xreal from it Earlier this year. Compared to previous X -ray glasses, they have a better compact sound, and the ability to install a 1080p pixel screen in space to consolidate it, which makes them work better with ingredients for tablets, phones, or laptops (or mobile systems such as Steam Deck).

The Xreal’s Pro of the One Classes is cost $ 100 ($ 599, It is $ 649 After June 30) but you have some advantages. The exact projection system at the top of the top glasses to thick corner lenses (called Birdbath), but Pro One lenses are smaller, and reflected a light less than my surroundings. The width area is a little wider – Vision Field 57 degrees, compared to 50 for those – but this makes the 1080 -pixel screen you feel slightly larger, and more clear on the edges of the large virtual screen. The described lens is like using flat comfort for the lenses: it is chunky but better than before.

I don’t think you need positives, but its slightly best performance may be worth the difference to avoid fatigue.

Xreal Eye Camera that appears not connected to Xreal One Pro glasses

The Xreal’s small eye camera blocks the glasses bridge.

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The optional camera is not necessary

I tried a camera consisting of additional ingredients called the eye (sold separately for $ 99), those holes in a single series glasses bridge. It is designed for future use with artificial intelligence applications, but they can now take pictures and videos on 2 GB of small storage of glasses. Download images on iPhone can be canceled by moving to a “transfer” mode in glasses settings that convert glasses into a USB camera, and the image application was able to find glasses and import photos. It is Clunky, but it works, although you need to connect glasses via USB-C as you do in a normal display mode. These Xreal glasses do not work wirelessly.

A picture overlooking the New Jersey train window

Image test outside the NJT train.

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The camera takes traffic photos and videos, but not as good as Meta Ray Banz. I think the camera is here to praise another feature: six full degrees of freedom mode that can hang the screen in space and then there is while you wander in the room. It is not necessary for most of the things I do, but they show how these glasses, in future versions, can develop into something similar to 3D augmented reality. Xreal’s Work with SpacetopIt shows the collection of programs that can float Safif from applications from laptops, to where things can go. Future Android XR developers for Xreal, The aura project is calledYou may take things more next year.

I was overcoming the camera at the moment and getting glasses, but I really curiously as Xreal bends these functions after that.

Xreal One Pro Glasses on MacBook Air

These glasses come with me on work trips.

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When you are good, it’s great

As I said in my Xreal One review, these glasses and fine screens are excellent for watching movies. It is amazingly effective to do the work as well, as they can install a screen (or a wide -reserved broad -angle screen, thanks to the guaranteed setting) in the place. I note that the maximum of 1080 pixels is a little more now that these glasses can give a larger width volume, and this is something that I expect to take future glasses in the next year or two years with high -resolution fine chips.

In the offer announced a new Apple company Vision Pro software updates But there is no information about any glasses of its own, I could only think about X -rays on my face. The future reaches parts and pieces, but many smart glasses are already here and Change quickly. And yes, it’s already useful. The year 2026 may be enormous for new smart glasses and AR, and my experience in WWDC 2025 with Xreal One Provs proving that development is underway. Now it’s your turn, Apple.



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