Whereas lots of the augmented actuality (AR) merchandise that we’ve seen thus far revolve round wearable headgear, it appears to be like like XREAL needs to shake issues up a bit following the launch of the XREAL Beam Professional, a telephone that’s specially-designed to make the most of AR expertise.
At first look the machine appears to be like like a somewhat “standard” smartphone, that includes a 6.5-inch LCD 2K (2400 x 1080) display screen and a chassis that’s not too totally different from most handsets in the marketplace today. Inside is a Snapdragon chip with as much as 8GB of RAM, with Android 14 working the present (albeit with XREAL’s personal NebulaOS on prime). The machine additionally options twin 50MP 3D cameras, permitting customers to document spatial movies with 1080p decision, at 60 frames per second.
With that stated although, its core standout options are potential utilizing a customized spatial UI, which is constructed on XREAL’s NebulaOS. This permits customers to immerse themselves with 2D apps, now introduced in an optimized 3DoF or 6DoF spatial setting by way of XREAL’s AR glasses – this contains leisure and content material streaming platforms, in addition to video games out there on the Google PlayStore.
The corporate is fairly assured that the Beam Professional has what it takes to face out in its respective market phase. XREAL Founder and CEO Chi Xu states:
With XREAL Beam Professional we selected a uniquely easy design that includes a acquainted Android cellular expertise to open the door to a brand new world of spatial computing that everybody can take pleasure in. We’re joined immediately by supporters, together with Qualcomm Applied sciences and others, and we see the cellular web evolving to the spatial web and foresee XREAL Beam Professional plus XREAL glasses as the last word AR answer to discover hundreds of thousands of apps in 3D house.
The XREAL Beam Professional will probably be out there in each Wi-Fi and 5G fashions, with 6GB/128GB and 8GB/256GB (expandable) storage and reminiscence configurations. Pricing begins at $199, with pre-orders now open for america, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech, China and Japan.