XREAL shipped 350,000 AR glasses in 2023
January 5, 2024 – XREAL (previously ‘Nreal’), a supplier of client augmented actuality (AR) glasses, introduced this week that it has now shipped 350,000 AR glasses to this point. The corporate added that it anticipates holding almost 45% of the worldwide AR glasses market share right now. If appropriate, XREAL said that this could make it the most important participant within the AR glasses trade by way of income and shipments, in addition to the most well-liked, best-selling AR model on the planet right now.
Together with delivery as much as 350,000 AR glasses to this point, the XREAL Air collection AR glasses are the best-seller on Amazon beneath the good glasses class. Moreover, knowledge from Worldwide Information Company (IDC) revealed that XREAL commanded a 51% market share of the AR market throughout Q3 2023. Actually, in keeping with IDC, XREAL’s success truly accounted for 58% of the year-on-year progress in shipments for 2023 seen throughout the complete client AR market.
With these achievements in thoughts, XREAL said that they not solely underline the success of its AR glasses, but additionally the growing momentum of the XREAL spatial computing model within the rising client wearable show market. Moreover, the figures assist to strengthen the corporate’s mission to deliver spatial computing to international client markets.
Commenting on the numbers, XREAL CEO, Chi Xu, said: “At the moment we rejoice a serious milestone on our journey to deliver AR wearable shows to everybody around the globe, revolutionizing how folks expertise all the things from video video games to motion pictures and TV, in-car leisure and shows, and the way they work at their desks or on the go.
“Having secured a serious foothold within the international wearable show market, XREAL is now in a stronger place to embrace market momentum and reaffirm its place because the main, best-selling AR glasses and spatial computing model on the planet right now, who’s trajectory is outpacing the remainder of the trade mixed.”
For the reason that launch of Nreal Mild again in 2019 after which later XREAL Air in 2022, the corporate’s first client AR glasses, the XREAL model has continued to develop, shortly establishing itself as one of many leaders in client AR machine design and manufacturing. At the moment, XREAL’s Air 2 and Air 2 Professional units, which had been launched globally in October 2023, provide a light-weight, comfy, and extra reasonably priced machine (in comparison with Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional or Meta’s Quest 3) that characteristic Sony Micro-OLED shows that present a digital display screen of as much as 330-inches.
XREAL’s glasses are additionally appropriate with main gaming and streaming leisure units together with Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Change, Valve Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, iOS and Android units, PCs, and Macs. The corporate additionally famous that it is going to be bringing its XREAL Air 2 and XREAL Air 2 Professional units to extra nations in 2024.
XREAL might be unveiling its subsequent iteration of spatial computing {hardware} at CES 2024 in Las Vegas subsequent week, together with extra particulars about its accompanying SDK for builders, which the corporate said will “rival the spatial capabilities of Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional and Meta’s Quest 3.”
Keep tuned for extra updates from XREAL subsequent week, as the corporate has promised extra info from CES 2024. For extra info on XREAL and its AR good glasses units, please go to the corporate’s website.
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Sam Sprigg
Sam is the Founder and Managing Editor of Auganix. With a background in analysis and report writing, he has been protecting XR trade information for the previous seven years.