BARCELONA—You might never be a real superhero, but you can look like one, thanks to TCL’s RayNeo brand.
RayNeo just launched two limited-edition, Batman-themed versions of its Air 4 Pro smart glasses, and I got to try them at a media preview event ahead of Mobile World Congress.
You can be Batman or the Joker (Credit: Angela Moscaritolo)
The $319 RayNeo Air 4 Pro Limited Justice Edition comes with a specially designed lens shade that doubles as a Batman mask. If you’d rather be a bad guy, there’s also a Chaos Edition themed after the Joker.
The lens shade easily snaps on and off the front of the glasses, so you can wear it whenever you’re in the mood for crime-fighting (or mayhem if you get the Joker model). The shade is very lightweight, so it doesn’t add much heft to the glasses. Adding to their charm, the Justice and Chaos models feature a Batman logo on one temple.
(Credit: Angela Moscaritolo)
Besides the lens shade, the Justice and Chaos models feature the same hardware as the standard-edition Air 4 Pro. The augmented reality (AR) smart glasses put a virtual 201-inch Micro-OLED in front of your eyes, mirroring the screen of whatever device they’re connected to via a USB-C cable—whether that’s your phone, laptop, tablet, or a handheld console.
RayNeo says the Air 4 Pro is the first pair of smart glasses with HDR10 support for “brighter highlights, deeper shadows, and richer colors” compared with the Editors’ Choice-winning Air 3s Pro. They should be a lot more colorful, with 10.7 billion hues compared with 16.77 million on the Air 3s Pro, while offering the same 1,200 nits of peak brightness, and 60Hz/120Hz refresh rates. For audio, the Air 4 Pro features four Bang & Olufsen-tuned speakers, an upgrade from the dual acoustic chamber speakers in the Air 3s Pro.
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I didn’t watch any content on the Air 4 Pro, but I connected the glasses to my laptop and phone, and the screen mirroring worked instantly. I also scrolled through media using a connected RayNeo Pocket TV remote (sold separately for $129), which gives you access to Google TV on the glasses. The Air 4 Pro screen looked big and colorful, and scrolling was highly responsive.
The Batman-themed models cost $20 more than the standard Air 4 Pro glasses ($299). That’s a small price to pay to feel like a superhero.
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I’m PCMag’s managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart home, home entertainment, wearables, fitness and health tech, and various other product categories. I have been with PCMag for more than 10 years, and in that time have written more than 6,000 articles and reviews for the site. I previously served as an analyst focused on smart home and wearable devices, and before that I was a reporter covering consumer tech news. I’m also a yoga instructor, and have been actively teaching group and private classes for nearly a decade.
Prior to joining PCMag, I was a reporter for SC Magazine, focusing on hackers and computer security. I earned a BS in journalism from West Virginia University, and started my career writing for newspapers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
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