Xreal’s Neo is the best-looking mobile dock for AR glasses

When the Nintendo Switch 2 launched successful June, AR glasses marque Viture hit Xreal to the punch pinch its ain multi-port artillery battalion that doubles arsenic a portable video dock for the caller console. After respective months, Xreal answered pinch the Neo, a 10,000mAh (38.7Wh) artillery battalion pinch DisplayPort Alt video-out. It judge is 1 of the prettiest batteries I’ve ever seen, and it useful pinch the company’s ain glasses making love backmost to the Air series, arsenic good arsenic its caller $449 Xreal 1S, which conscionable launched. I’ve besides gotten Viture’s Luma Pro glasses moving pinch it.

The $99 Neo is disposable now and is being shown disconnected astatine CES 2026. Whether it’s worthy the value to you whitethorn travel down to really overmuch you usage your Xreal glasses for gaming aliases intermezo connected the go. Xreal glasses owners person already been capable to link straight to the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck aliases the Asus ROG Ally for video and audio complete USB-C. Outside of Nintendo’s world, the Neo doesn’t alteration thing isolated from for letting you springiness your instrumentality immoderate juice while you game. You tin play astatine up to 1200p (depending connected the solution of the glasses) astatine up to 120Hz. The Switch 2 tin spell up to 1080p astatine 120Hz done the Neo.

This isn’t the fastest-charging artillery around, but it’s faster than Viture’s dock. The Neo outputs up to 20W, which is plentifulness accelerated for phones and tablets arsenic good arsenic the Switch 2, but it’s not capable to quickly complaint immoderate handhelds and laptops. However, if you usage the Neo to entertain yourself while it’s being charged pinch a 65W aliases higher wall adapter, the output velocity boosts to 45W.

Xreal’s artillery dock has a magnetized ringing to fto it conveniently threat onto MagSafe-equipped iPhones, and it has a kickstand successful lawsuit you want to prop it up. The Neo has a short built-in USB-C cablegram that’s for the video root you want to position wrong the glasses. There’s a USB-C larboard adjacent to that cablegram meant for your AR glasses. Then, connected the different side, there’s a USB-C charging port.

It would person been bully to person an HDMI larboard connected the Neo — Viture’s Pro Mobile Dock has one, enabling relationship to galore different kinds of gadgets, for illustration crippled consoles and streaming devices. I besides would person been good pinch a slightly bigger size if it meant higher artillery capacity. But the Neo is simply a good prime if you chiefly entertain yourself while you’re connected the move.

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