Android XR’s second device already looks interesting

Saw Project Aura and, weirdly, Android XR got a lot more interesting to me.
Not because I trust Google. I’ve been using Android since the Nexus days. I know the drill.
Glass died. Daydream died. Half of Google’s “future” platforms die. And now Android itself is getting more annoying with sideloading restrictions and AI bloat.
So yeah, I’m not exactly all-in on Google here.
But I do want Android XR to work.
Mostly because the alternative is Meta owning XR, and 🙄 that.
I never believed the whole “Horizon OS is opening up” thing. Meta’s version of “open” always feels like: open, as long as they still control the store, accounts, rules, and money.
That’s not Android. That’s just a cheaper walled garden.
Aura caught my eye because it’s not another Quest clone. It’s glasses + puck. Different shape, different use case, different assumptions.
That alone makes Android XR feel more interesting than Horizon OS to me.
Google can still screw this up. They probably will, in some very Google way.
But I’d still rather gamble on messy Android XR than let Meta own the whole category.
I don’t need Google to be perfect.
I just need them to be less Meta.

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