ASUS and XREAL teamed up at CES to make gaming smartglasses with two important upgrades

The latest procreation of smartglasses tin create immense virtual screens without nan request to lug astir elephantine monitors are a existent boon to predominant travelers. However, their specs aren’t often tailored to nan needs of gamers, truthful astatine CES 2026, ASUS and XREAL collaborated to make a brace pinch 2 very important features you don’t usually get from rivals.

The caller ROG XREAL R1 AR glasses are based connected nan existing XREAL One Pro, truthful people they stock a batch of nan aforesaid components and specs including dual micro-OLED displays pinch a per-eye solution of 1,920 x 1,080, 3 degrees of state (natively), 700-nit highest brightness, 57-degree FOV and built-in speakers tuned by Bose. However, nan large quality connected nan R1s is that alternatively of maxing retired pinch a 120Hz refresh rate, ASUS and XREAL’s collab goes each nan measurement up to 240Hz. That’s a beautiful bully bump, particularly for group pinch older hardware aliases anyone who mightiness not person entree to a precocious refresh complaint show aliases conscionable doesn’t want to little their standards while traveling.

The different large summation is nan R1’s included ROG Control Dock, which from what I’ve seen is somewhat amended suited for location use. It’s designed to beryllium a elemental hub pinch 2 HDMI 2.0 jacks, one DisplayPort 1.4 connector and a mates of USB-C slots (one is for power), truthful you tin quickly move betwixt aggregate systems for illustration your desktop and console pinch a azygous touch. That said, depending connected nan business you mightiness not moreover request nan dock astatine each because nan R1s tin besides beryllium connected to compatible PCs aliases gaming handhelds for illustration nan ROG Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally X (see nan synergy there?) straight via USB-C.

When I sewage to effort them retired astatine CES, nan R1s delivered a very easy to usage and comparatively streamlined kit. At 91 grams, they are hardly heavier than nan original XREAL One Pro (87g) truthful they don’t consciousness excessively weighty aliases cumbersome. I besides really for illustration nan inclusion of electrochromic lenses, which let you to alteration nan tint of nan glasses pinch nan touch of a button. This lets you set really overmuch aliases small ray you want to travel successful done nan beforehand to champion suit your environment. And acknowledgment to support for 3 DOF, you person nan expertise to pin your virtual surface successful 1 location aliases fto it travel you around.

Now it is important to retrieve that successful bid to get 240Hz connected nan smartglasses, you request hardware tin of pushing nan benignant of performance. So depending connected nan title, erstwhile nan R1s are connected to thing for illustration a gaming handheld, you mightiness not beryllium capable to get there. Luckily, I had nan chance to usage nan specs erstwhile connected to a PC arsenic well, which fto maine really admit nan smoothness you get from faster refresh rates. General image value was besides rather bully acknowledgment to nan glasses’ 1080p resolution, truthful I had nary problem reference matter aliases discerning mini UI elements.

My 1 mini gripe is that I benignant of wish its 57-degree FOV was a mini spot bigger, but that’s much of a limitation of existent optical exertion arsenic location aren't a ton of likewise sized specs that tin spell overmuch higher (at slightest not yet). That said, moreover pinch its existent FOV, you tin still create up to a 171-inch virtual surface astatine 4 meters away, which is massively bigger than immoderate portable surface you mightiness entertain carrying around.

Unfortunately, ASUS and XREAL haven’t announced charismatic pricing aliases a merchandise day for nan R1s yet, but hopefully they won’t costs excessively overmuch much than nan XREAL One Pro, which are presently going for $649.