Xreal Beam Professional is actually a customized Android cellphone particularly designed to energy Xreal Glasses, together with 6DoF AR on Xreal Air 2 Extremely.
Xreal Air glasses lack onboard compute or battery, they only act as an exterior monitor for no matter system (similar to your cellphone) you join over USB-C, projecting the picture onto a head-locked digital display in entrance of you. When used with just a few particular Android telephones, a PC, or nearly any system through the prevailing Xreal Beam adapter although, the glasses can help rotational 3DoF monitoring. And when used with particular Samsung Galaxy telephones the Xreal Air 2 Extremely glasses may even do true AR with 6DoF positional monitoring.
Enter Xreal Beam Professional. It is designed to allow you to use true 6DoF AR on Air 2 Extremely or have a 3DoF display on the opposite Air fashions, no matter what cellphone you personal and with out draining its battery.
The pitch of Xreal Beam Professional is not to switch your current cellphone, it is to behave as a devoted compute puck to your sensible glasses – one which helps all of the media and gaming apps already current on the Google Play Retailer.
Xreal says that features Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Steam Hyperlink, and cloud gaming companies. For gaming you may pair a Bluetooth gamepad, and for all use circumstances you may pair Bluetooth earphones.
While you join your Xreal Air glasses to Xreal Beam Professional, you may see the corporate’s Nebula app launcher which you should utilize to place these Android apps in area. On Xreal Air 2 Extremely apps will keep locked in place due to 6DoF monitoring, whereas on all different glasses fashions they’re going to solely be 3DoF (rotational).
Not like typical telephones, Beam Professional options two USB-C ports on the underside. One to energy and drive the glasses, and the opposite for simultaneous charging. The battery ought to final round 3 hours, and helps 27W charging to completely recharge in simply over one hour.
Beam Professional is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, a low-end however comparatively current 4nm chipset utilized in funds Android telephones, and encompasses a 6.5-inch 90Hz LCD panel with 1080p decision.
The 2 rear cameras are designed to seize stereoscopic 3D photographs and movies and have 50mm spacing. That is a lot wider than iPhone 15 Professional’s cameras. And Xreal Beam Professional helps 1080p 60FPS 3D video recording, in comparison with 30FPS in Apple’s digital camera app.
The $200 base mannequin has 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, whereas an 8GB RAM and 256GB mannequin is obtainable for $250.
These two fashions solely have Wi-Fi, however a higher-end mannequin with a SIM card tray and 5G modem is coming later this 12 months in case you truly do need this factor to switch your present cellphone.
All fashions have a microSD slot supporting playing cards of as much as 1TB.
Preorders for Xreal Beam Professional at the moment are accessible within the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czechia, Japan, and China. In South Korea preorders will open on July 1. Xreal says it “anticipates” delivery in August.
Homeowners of the unique Xreal Beam, which has been poorly acquired as a consequence of points with the picture output high quality and the cooling fan, can order Beam Professional for $150 till July 10, a $50 low cost.