Asus and Xreal Have Announced Gaming XR Glasses With a 240Hz Refresh Rate

Asus and Xreal person announced the Asus ROG Xreal R1, a caller acceptable of XR glasses aimed squarely astatine gamers. They're PCVR glasses with a 57-degree tract of view, auto-tinting lenses and Bose dependable built into the glasses temples. And they've got a chaotic 240Hz refresh rate.

These are efficaciously a souped-up mentation of the Xreal One Pro, a acceptable of XR glasses Xreal released past twelvemonth with the aforesaid size Sony Micro-OLED displays with 1080p solution and the aforesaid 57-degree tract of view. But 240Hz is treble the refresh complaint offered with those glasses, and the Xreal R1's 2ms reponse clip is simply a tick faster than the 3ms of the One Pro. Like the One Pro, the R1 tin judge video via USB-C, allowing them to amusement you a virtual display, similar from your machine or, say, an Xbox Ally X handheld.

And due to the fact that the Asus ROG Xreal R1 is simply a concern with, well, Asus, each broadside of the glasses has RGB lighting connected the side. You'll beryllium capable to power the lighting done an on-screen menu, accessible by buttons connected the close temple. Anyone that's fiddled astir with show settings should beryllium capable to instrumentality it from there.

But not each of our favourite gaming handhelds fto you output video implicit USB-C each willy-nilly (ahem, Switch 2). If that's the beingness you're living, the ROG Xreal R1 besides comes with the the ROG Control Dock, which features 2 HDMI 2.0 ports and a azygous DisplayPort 1.4 larboard for piping video to the glasses.

This dock fundamentally operates arsenic a benignant of HDMI and DisplayPort switcher, which'll fto you swap betwixt antithetic crippled devices without having to unplug and re-plug the glasses. The dock has a benignant of analog instrumentality connected the little near corner, which volition prime betwixt antithetic inputs, truthful you tin swap devices easily. All of that and the Xreal R1's 91-gram value – comparison that to the hundreds of grams a emblematic VR headset weighs – could marque for a wildly compelling on-the-go virtual display.

You won't need the dock to usage the glasses, though. If you're using, say, the Xbox Ally X, you tin inactive link the ROG Xreal R1 straight to the handheld to get the afloat acquisition – 240Hz and all.

Lastly, the glasses diagnostic electrochromatic lenses that tin tint automatically – either erstwhile you measurement into agleam airy oregon look astatine your virtual show – oregon manually. They've besides got built successful speakers from Bose. Both are features carried implicit from the Xreal One Pro. Asus has yet to uncover pricing oregon a circumstantial merchandise date, but we won't person to hold agelong to larn those details – the institution says the glasses volition vessel successful the archetypal fractional of 2026.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.