And because the Asus ROG Xreal R1 is a partnership with, well, Asus, each side of the glasses has RGB lighting on the side. You’ll be able to control the lighting through an on-screen menu, accessible by buttons on the right temple. Anyone that’s fiddled around with monitor settings should be able to take it from there. <\/p>\n
Asus ROG Xreal R1 \u2013 CES photos<\/p>\n
But not all of our favorite gaming handhelds<\/a> let you output video over USB-C all willy-nilly (ahem, Switch 2<\/a>). If that’s the life you’re living, the ROG Xreal R1 also comes with the the ROG Control Dock, which features two HDMI 2.0 ports and a single DisplayPort 1.4 port for piping video to the glasses. <\/p>\n This dock essentially operates as a sort of HDMI and DisplayPort switcher, which’ll let you swap between different game devices without having to unplug and re-plug the glasses. The dock has a sort of analog stick on the lower left corner, which will select between different inputs, so you can swap devices easily. All of that and the Xreal R1’s 91-gram weight \u2013 compare that to the hundreds of grams a typical VR headset weighs \u2013 could make for a wildly compelling on-the-go virtual display. <\/p>\n You won’t need the dock to use the glasses, though. If you’re using, say, the Xbox Ally X, you can still connect the ROG Xreal R1 directly to the handheld to get the full experience \u2013 240Hz and all. <\/p>\n Lastly, the glasses feature electrochromatic lenses that can tint automatically \u2013 either when you step into bright light or look at your virtual display \u2013 or manually. They’ve also got built in speakers from Bose. Both are features carried over from the Xreal One Pro. Asus has yet to reveal pricing or a specific release date, but we won’t have to wait long to learn those details \u2013 the company says the glasses will ship in the first half of 2026. <\/p>\n Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom’s Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn’t be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asus and Xreal have announced the Asus ROG Xreal R1, a new set of XR glasses aimed squarely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-357362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}