Xreal Air 2 Pro and Beam Pro: A Brave New World of Spatial Computing

Being productive with a pair of interesting shades on my face.

I am writing this on the Xreal Beam Pro using a portable Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. For those who don’t know what an Xreal Beam Pro is, let me explain…

A few years ago, an interesting trend started to happen with portable devices when some manufacturers started to adopt the idea of “spatial computing.” This is not necessarily a new thing. You’ve probably heard about it as “Virtual Reality” or “Augmented Reality.” The first iterations of this technology were large and cumbersome headsets tethered to a computer via a cable. At best, they were tethered through a slow wireless connection.

When smartphones became more powerful in their computing abilities, software programmers began to create augmented reality (AR) applications (apps) that took the camera on the phone and overlaid some sort of artificial visuals over the “real world” as seen through the camera. Big players like Meta (the company that owns Facebook)…