Xreal unveils Android-powered Beam Professional with 3D cameras

No, this isn’t a smartphone – nevertheless it does run Android. Meet the Xreal Beam Professional, which is supposed to be the proper companion for the corporate’s Air AR glasses. It’s actually an enormous improve over the unique Beam.

For those who’re not acquainted, Xreal makes normal-looking glasses which have shows in-built. They don’t have any processing energy on board, as an alternative they’re pushed by a smartphone over USB-C (or a pc). Alternatively, you would plug within the Beam to supply energy and deal with wi-fi video casting.

The Xreal Beam Professional is a lot extra. It runs “nebulaOS”, which is Android 14 tuned for AR duties. There’s a 6.5” 90Hz LCD (1,080 x 2,400px, 20:9) so you possibly can management apps the old style approach. The gadget itself is a controller with movement sensors that flip it into an air mouse.

Even higher, there are a pair of 50MP cameras on the again (ISOCELL JN1 sensors). They’re spaced 50mm aside to match the space between your eyes and can be utilized to seize 3D pictures and movies. The latter is hard as Xreal needed to synchronize the sensors to the pixel degree for the very best video high quality. Additionally, the digital picture stabilization needed to be tuned particularly for stereoscopic use.

The Beam Professional is powered by an unnamed 4nm Snapdragon chipset and a 4,300mAh battery. The bottom mannequin has 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage (expandable as much as 1TB) and there’s an 8/256GB choice too. Each function Wi-Fi 6 (ax) and Bluetooth 5.2.

There are two USB-C ports on board. One connects to the glasses – Air, Air 2, Air 2 Professional or Air 2 Extremely – and also you’re good to go. Optionally, you need to use the second USB-C port to cost the Beam Professional at as much as 27W.

Open gross sales of the Xreal Beam Professional begin tomorrow (Could 31) however you possibly can already reserve a unit. The bottom 6/128GB mannequin is CNY 1,300 ($180/€165/₹15,000) and the 8/256GB one is CNY 1,600. There’s a 5G mannequin slated to launch in August, that one will probably be CNY 2,000. Moreover, Xreal will launch an enterprise model for CNY 3,000.

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