Android XR Glasses Join Google Stack

XREAL's AURA are the first widely marketed wired XR glasses running Google's Android XR with Gemini AI and Play‑store apps, offering USB‑C mirroring of laptops and consoles into a spatial multi‑window workspace. They retail at consumer‑price tiers (~$1,099) and are positioned as productivity, entertainment, and gaming devices that travel with the user. — Mainstream XR tied to Google’s OS and assistant accelerates platform consolidation, raises new privacy/competition questions, and changes how employers and media think about portable spatial work and consumption.