Xreal is attempting out one thing new within the AR house – combining the breadth of apps and content material obtainable on Android gadgets with the transportable giant display screen expertise of its AR glasses. Initially introduced in China final month, the brand new Xreal Beam Professional is now going world.
The machine very a lot appears like a typical smartphone – and that’s on function, however it’s not a telephone. The acquainted kind issue permits even novice customers to choose it up and use it with out feeling out of their depth.
Xreal Beam Professional
The machine runs Android 14 with some customizations to assist with its AR capabilities. It’s powered by an unnamed Snapdragon chipset with 6/8GB of RAM and 128/256GB storage. There’s a microSD slot obtainable to retailer loads of content material. The bottom mannequin has Wi-Fi 6 and there may be an non-obligatory 5G mannequin – it will possibly’t deal with voice calls (it’s not a telephone!), however it will possibly do streaming on the go together with no assist from a telephone.
Why not use your common smartphone with a pair of Xreal Air glasses? You’ll be able to, however solely when you have the precise telephone for the job. Simply having USB-C isn’t sufficient (and all iPhones previous to the 15-series don’t), you additionally want video out help (which many telephone makers skip) and a model of Android that is aware of the way to deal with a big display screen (that is much more uncommon). With a devoted machine, Xreal can be certain that all of that works and works effectively.
There are two different causes to decide on a devoted machine. The Beam Professional, like the unique Beam, has two USB-C ports: one for reference to the glasses and one for exterior energy. It helps 27W quick charging.
Twin USB-C ports • microSD slot
The opposite purpose – and this one you may’t get from even an Asus ROG Cellphone – is the pair of 50MP cameras that can help you seize spatial photographs and movies your self. These are greatest considered utilizing glasses just like the Air, however you may also take pleasure in a 2D model on the machine’s personal display screen. No, the display screen is just not autostereoscopic like these previous 3D telephones.
The display screen is a 6.5” LCD panel (1,080 x 2,000px) and can be utilized with common Android apps. Whenever you don the glasses, it transforms right into a contact panel to manage apps. Moreover, the machine itself can be utilized as an air mouse because of the built-in accelerometer.
Talking of apps, the Xreal Beam Professional has entry to the Google Play Retailer and because it runs Android 14, it’s suitable with tens of millions of apps and video games. Xreal calls its UI “NebulaOS” and has given it multitasking capabilities with two apps sharing the massive digital display screen. Most Android distributions lack this functionality, which was one of many components that motivated Xreal to create this machine.
From the Play Retailer, you may set up video streaming companies: Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and so forth. If in case you have, say, the Xreal Air 2 Professional glasses, you may take pleasure in you favourite reveals and flicks on a display screen with an obvious dimension of 130” (once you’re achieved, the glasses and Beam Professional can simply slot in a backpack).
The Xreal Beam Professional can be utilized for work and leisure
Xreal has deliberate for gaming purposes too and the Beam Professional absolutely helps the Steam Hyperlink, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and others. Moreover, Nvidia’s CloudXR is supported for customers with GeForce RTX GPUs.
As we talked about, that is meant to be paired with Xreal glasses and relying on which of them you’ve gotten, you’ll get a distinct expertise. The Xreal Air, Air 2 and Air 2 Professional can monitor 3 levels of freedom (DoF). If in case you have the Air 2 Extremely glasses, you may take pleasure in a 6 DoF expertise.
The Xreal Beam Professional is surprisingly low-cost – $200 for the bottom 6/128GB Wi-Fi mannequin. That’s on the decrease finish of mid-range Android telephones and it’s not far more than the unique Xreal Beam ($110), which has restricted capabilities in comparison with the Professional.
If you would like extra RAM and storage, you may decide the 8/256GB model. If in case you have want for Web connectivity with out tethering to a telephone, there’s a 5G mannequin. For companies, Xreal will provide Beam Professional Enterprise Version.
International pre-orders begin now for the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Czechia, China and Japan, Korea is getting it on July 1. The primary clients ought to get theirs in August. In addition to xreal.com, additionally, you will be capable of discover the Beam Professional on Amazon (beginning in July). A word for homeowners of the unique Xreal Beam: you will get a $50 low cost when buying the Professional (legitimate till July 10).