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Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs […] In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs $1,099 through the end of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for preorders last month. I expect that's because at $1,279, they were going head to head with Meta's VR Glasses , and that's tough competition for Google and Xreal's new pr
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In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs […] In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs $1,099 through the end of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for preorders last month. I expect that's because at $1,279, they were going head to head with Meta's VR Glasses , and that's tough competition for Google and Xreal's new pr
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According to The Verge’s source item, Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099, In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs […] In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura - the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens - which just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs $1,099 through the end of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for preorders last month. I expect that’s because at $1,279, they were going head to head with Meta’s VR Glasses , and that’s tough competition for Google and Xreal’s new pr
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