I got to play games and look at videos through XR's newest pair of high-end display glasses, but I also got to talk to the CEO and founder about what's coming next. There's a whole future of smart glasses and AR glasses that are coming, but in the present, there are a

bunch of glasses that are already out which do really useful things. One of them is the whole product line made by XREAL. These display glasses have been around for years, but XR's newest line, called the XREAL Air, improves the quality of the display and the audio

even more. The XREAL Air has a 50 and 57° field of view in glasses that aren't that expensive—$500 or $600 for the two models—with audio powered by Bose and a new ability to take these displays and fix them in space so that you could turn

your head and allow yourself to see much larger pieces of a much larger display without feeling like they're floating glued to your eyes. What XREAL is doing is one step of where AR glasses are heading, and I'm really curious to see whether it's a sign of what's to come. XREAL also

has a plug-in camera for these glasses that's going to be compatible with AI, and I spoke to the CEO of XREAL to talk about what else is coming next for smart glasses and for XREAL. So, um, talking about Chi, who's the founder and CEO of

XREAL display glasses that I've worn and tested and been out there, work with uh, phones and game consoles, and I'm curious where the new glasses fit themselves in a landscape where we see AR glasses like, you know, they're prototypes of things that Meta

Is doing with Orion. Snap's doing spectacles, and then these at a lower price are also hitting a different landscape. Like, what do you see happening? Well, I see actually a big kind of trend: VSTs are slowly

going down, and you know, OS is getting more and more popular. The OSC is Optical See-Through. I was going to ask what that...

Yeah, Optical See-Through. Okay, so uh, yeah, and we've always been, you know, working heavily, investing heavily on this kind of OS class, believing this is the right

form factor, you know, and our ideal goal is, you know, um, how could we actually make this kind of glasses with like 80% of the VST experience but only at 20% of their cost in terms of, you know, price point, the weight, and everything. Look at the full

factor, right? This is something I believe I could wear on a daily basis, and you know, uh, given that kind of direction, all we're trying to do is, you know, how do we pick the display technology and how can we actually further optimize and tailor the kind of experience, you know, for

this? And one of the biggest kind of breakthroughs we had is this X1 chip. You know, we think, you know, um, how we actually enable kind of universal 3D off capability on virtually any kind of hosting device. You know, there's no existing kind of solution for that, so we

have to build something from scratch. So the X1 chip on this... um, does look like some of the stuff that's been happening on some of your other devices, yeah, the separate devices, the Beam Pro, and it can fix things in space and...

Allow the display to work a bit, also. Like, uh, I tried that SpaceTop AR laptop where you could float displays, and I tried curving a monitor, and you could move around and see different parts of the display. And that works with any device that works with

like an iPhone or Steam Deck or whatever. Yep. Do you see more software becoming, like, acknowledging this capability, or does it not even matter in terms of, you know, where you're positioning yourself as kind of like an AR plug-in display?

First of all, you want to make this like a very independent kind of accessory that can easily plug into anything. But if you really want to take this to the next level, yes, I think, you know, we can easily work with some third-party laptop companies to enable maybe not an

ultra-wide screen, but three separate different screens there. And slowly, slowly you can be able to project some of the hotspots, not just on Windows, and those kinds of support is something we require from the third parties. Well, I think it's also interesting that in

trying these out, that they have their own, like, TV settings built in, you know, that you can do. There's a lot more onboard customization, and it feels like it's bridging the gap between, like the way I see it now, smart glasses have this

you know, people see a future with AR glasses, but in the present, the glasses are doing particular things like, oh, they're a good camera, or they're headphones, or in this case, they're your display. And these seem to be leaning a lot into, we're going to

Become more of that for people. Absolutely. I think, you know, for productivity, for gaming, this is their both top choices. Yeah, I'm really curious about the camera, you know, the camera, which I didn't get to, uh, you know, I know was coming and I got to see it on the

glasses.  Bridges into that um AI glasses territory you're starting to see with like Meta and its glasses. Where do you see that going with this? I think, you know, AI is going to be a big kind of complement to AR going forward. It's

going to make AR glasses more efficient in terms of interface. And on the other hand, I think, you know, if you look at like 5 to 10 years, probably AR is the best platform for AI to take off because this is probably the the host for you to see

the world you're seeing and also know your intent feedback. So those kinds of personalized data are going to help your personalized AI a lot more efficient, a lot more powerful as well. I mean, do you see that happening almost agnostically across platforms, or you know, like it's it's

an interesting position because it's kind of like, 'build it and they will come.' There's a part that you want to wait for like ecosystems to arrive and then you build the hardware. I think it's a very interesting X Project is like you just kind of make stuff that works and um and

you know, everybody's waiting for these advanced AR glasses and phone ecosystems, but that's, you know, that's still a long road. Yeah, but I, you know, you know, being in this industry, this is hardware, you know, uh, it takes time, but you know, we're really excited about what

Going to happen in the next couple of years, I think we'll finally see a pivoting point where the market is going to explode. And I see, from the technology side, a lot of stuff coming together for a form factor like this and even smaller. Do you think...

Um, I notice on the Pro models, they're getting more compact; the lenses are getting flatter. It's starting to look a little more like regular glasses. They're still different. Do you think...

How far away do you think it'll be until you could bridge that gap? Obviously, still being tethered, but do you see some of those things being overcome, or do you imagine you'll kind of just cross those...

bridges as you come to them? Well, it depends on what your application is for, right? If you want to replace the glasses you're wearing today, we're probably seeing five to ten years. But, I think for now, if...

you really want to have a sunglasses-type device, you carry this with you all the time, and from time to time you want to plug it in and then just enjoy the experience. I think this one is...

probably pretty good. Yeah. Would you ever explore other types of accessories? Because I see Meta has the wristband, and I'm really curious how much further, especially with the Ultras that are out there, there's possibility of doing six-DOF or...

Full motion AR, and I'm curious about how far that part... not absolutely. So the goal is not, you know, coming up with different types of interaction tools; it is coping with a system where you feel like this is more intuitive and also yet efficient. Well, it also occurs...

to me, trying out the... um... the demonstration of the curved display on the laptop. And I've been thinking about AR, and part of me thinks as much as there's like future tech that you want to throw at people, is it...

also about getting people used to just the idea of using something like this and then building from it? Because I kind of see that here where it's like, you know, enough people start using it as a display, doing things like that, then you start adding more and that becomes the...

definition of what AR is. That's how the smartphone—the iPhone—got started, remember? Right. Yeah. So we actually wanted this to be a product that people can use on any basis, and then they will actually want to add more stuff, and there will be more developers jumping in as...

well. And also, I guess I finish thinking about your your X1 chip, which is like a new custom chip that's on these... that is the beginning of some sort of a footprint there for how these can function on their own, anchoring things in space. Where do you see things going...

along that road? Well, I think, you know, it is a very important and pivoting point, and going forward there's going to be more and more kind of computation offloaded to the glasses. And you know, right now we have all the processing here, and maybe later...

Six. Off-hand gesture, and maybe even some of the AI capability will happen here. And this, you know, eventually you realize you can actually cut off this wire, and this will be all you want—devices at some point. So this is like the beginning of that, yeah, beginning steps because it

does feel like there's more *living* on these glasses now than before, even though they're also working as displays. Yeah, and that's why, you know, compared to all the Air series, yeah, we believe we want to call this X1. This is the actual step forward for consumer

industry. Great talking to you, and uh, yeah, it's obviously curious about what comes next. There's a lot of stuff happening in this space, uh, and uh, if you have more questions, you can leave them below. But uh, yeah, thanks for watching.

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CEO와의 상호작용을 포함한 XREAL Air 디스플레이 안경 리뷰.

Bose의 향상된 디스플레이와 오디오 품질로 무장한 XREAL Air에 집중하세요.

50° 및 57° 시야각에 대한 설명 및 가격($500-$600)을 확인하세요.

더 넓은 시청 환경을 위해 공간에 디스플레이를 고정하는 기능을 강조합니다.

곧 출시될 AI 호환 플러그인 카메라에 대한 언급.

스마트 글래스의 미래와 시장에서의 XREAL의 입지에 대한 논의

XREAL 글래스와 메타 및 스냅의 다른 AR 글래스 비교.

광학 투과형(OST) 기술이 대중화되는 추세에 대한 CEO의 관점을 알아보세요.

XREAL은 20%의 비용으로 80%의 VST 경험을 목표로 OST 안경에 집중하고 있습니다.

디스플레이 기술 및 사용자 경험 최적화에 대해 논의합니다.

X1 칩과 범용 3D 오프 기능을 소개합니다.

소프트웨어 호환성 및 향후 개발

안경과 다양한 기기(아이폰, 스팀 데크)의 호환성에 대해 논의합니다.

안경의 기능을 인정하는 소프트웨어에 관한 질문입니다.

향후 타사 노트북 회사와의 협업에 대한 CEO의 비전.

온보드 커스터마이징과 스마트 글래스와 AR 글래스 간의 격차를 해소하는 것에 대해 언급합니다.

스마트 글래스의 현재 사용 사례(카메라, 헤드폰, 디스플레이).

사용자를 위한 더욱 다양한 디바이스로 거듭나기 위한 XREAL의 접근 방식에 집중하세요.

AR 글래스에 AI 기능을 통합하는 방법에 대해 논의합니다.

AR 글래스의 장기 비전과 XREAL의 전략

고급 AR 글래스 및 휴대폰 에코시스템의 장기적인 발전에 대해 논의합니다.

기술 발전으로 인해 향후 몇 년 내에 시장이 폭발적으로 성장할 것이라는 예측.

프로 모델의 소형화 추세와 폼 팩터의 미래에 대한 관찰.

일반 안경을 완전히 대체하는 안경을 만드는 데 필요한 시간(5~10년)에 대한 CEO의 추정치입니다.

향후 액세서리 및 상호작용 방법

안경 자체 외에 다른 액세서리(메타의 손목 밴드 등)에 대한 논의도 진행 중입니다.

다양한 인터랙션 도구를 도입하기보다는 직관적이고 효율적인 인터랙션 시스템에 집중합니다.

더 많은 기능을 추가하기 전에 사용자가 기술에 익숙해지도록 하는 것이 중요하다는 논의가 있었습니다.

사람들이 매일 사용할 수 있는 제품을 만든 다음 수요가 증가함에 따라 더 많은 기능을 추가하는 전략입니다.

안경에 연산을 오프로드하는 X1 칩의 역할에 대해 논의합니다.

미래 기능에 대한 비전: 손에서 벗어난 제스처와 안경의 AI 처리.

X1 칩은 완전 무선 디바이스를 향한 디딤돌입니다.

끝으로 소비자 산업에서 XREAL의 발전에 대해 말씀드리겠습니다.

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Xreal One is Another Step Forward: The Future of AR Glasses Is Coming (Exclusive)

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