An X1S chip in the glasses, Snapdragon in the puck

The glasses carry Xreal's X1S coprocessor to render spatial content on the see-through lenses, while the puck runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite platform for heavy Android XR workloads. Reality Elite was previewed at AWE 2026 with roughly 20% better XR battery life.

Xreal's Project Aura splits the work across two chips: the glasses themselves run Xreal's own X1S processor to handle what you see on the lenses, while a separate puck you carry runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite to do the heavy computing. Keeping the processing unit off your face is how Xreal avoids cramming a hot, battery-draining chip into a frame that has to sit on your nose all day.