Xreal's New $299 Display Glasses Might Be My Budget Favorites, but I Miss the Extras

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The X by Xreal A01 Plus edge out the TCL RayNeo Air 4 Pro in my early tests, and are lighter, too.

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The price of good displays that fit into eyeglass frames is going down, even if you might not find a need to use them. Display glasses like the ones Xreal makes aren't the same as Meta's smart glasses (at least, not yet): They're tethered by a cable to act like a mobile monitor for your devices and don't use AI services. Many of them don't have cameras onboard, either.

The strangely named new X By Xreal A01 Plus glasses, which I've been trying out this week, are lower-cost than Xreal's other glasses ($299, versus $449 and higher for the others). In exchange for the budget price, they drop a lot of the extras of Xreal's other glasses, which I actually love and...

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