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The Xreal Beam Pro has good ideas about AR — but not enough juice
Xreal’s new tablet is a few spec bumps away from being pretty great
The Beam Pro’s in-glasses display can be set to follow your head as you move or stay anchored in one space, which you select by tapping the orange Mode button on the right side of the device. Xreal’s in a tough spot here: if the Beam Pro is $800, nobody’s going to buy it, but it’s somewhere between difficult and impossible to build a $200 Android device powerful enough to run real-time AR stuff. But Xreal’s track record here isn’t great: a lot of people who bought the original Beam, a much more minimalist remote control and content machine, are still complaining about the same serious bugs and missing features even months later.
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