Asus ROG’s next ally is Xreal, with 240Hz AR glasses coming in 2026

Xreal is having a large CES. It announced its caller 1S AR glasses and the Switch 2-ready Neo dock that’s besides a artillery — some of which are already disposable to buy. It’s not done pinch the announcements yet, arsenic it delivered a peek astatine an upcoming business pinch Asus that will output a caller group of ROG AR glasses made specifically for gamers.

In the 1 and only image that was shared pinch The Verge, the ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses look for illustration cyberpunk aviators. There’s an LED portion connected the stem to indicate… something. Perhaps artillery life, aliases thing antecedently unquantifiable, for illustration leetness. Either way, the stems look rather a spot thicker than those connected the 1S, and immoderate tech the companies are cramming wrong whitethorn beryllium basal to let for their marquee feature: a 240Hz refresh rate. These are apparently the first to double the normal 120Hz refresh complaint that’s communal successful AR glasses today.

These glasses person micro-OLED panels moving astatine 1080p resolution, and they’ll connect to gadgets pinch a USB-C cable. Included pinch this group of glasses is the ROG Control Dock that features 2 HDMI 2.0 ports and 1 DisplayPort 1.4 port, making it useful for some PC and console gamers (Xreal’s Neo only has USB-C, while Viture’s competing Pro Mobile Dock has HDMI and USB-C, but not DisplayPort). This Asus dock will fto you toggle betwixt video sources pinch a azygous button.

Xreal boasts a 57-degree section of position for this model, which is connected the precocious extremity of what you tin get successful astir AR glasses correct now (it matches what the company’s $649 One Pro offer). It claims that they tin screen 95 percent of the viewable abstraction pinch a monolithic 171-inch surface placed astatine the virtual balanced of 4 meters successful beforehand of you. Like different caller Xreal models, the ROG Xreal R1 person 3 degrees of freedom, allowing you to anchor the surface successful spot virtually aliases fto it travel your head’s movements.

The ROG Xreal R1 will motorboat successful the first half of this year. The institution hasn’t yet shared a price.