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Asus and Xreal's $849 Gaming Display Glasses Are Available for Preorder
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Asus and Xreal's $849 Gaming Display Glasses Are Available for Preorder

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There are a lot of smart glasses right now, including a lot of display glasses, which work specifically like plug-in monitors for your face. Xreal makes a number of them. A new set made along with Asus, the ROG Xreal R1, is arriving starting in June. They have a better refresh rate than any other display glasses I've seen, but they're also a lot more expensive for the privilege. I tried the ROG Xreal R1 back in January, and while they definitely have a different glowing "gamer" design, they're very much a subtly upgraded pair of Xreal One Pro glasses with an included console-switching dock. The ROG Xreal R1's biggest unique feature is a 240Hz refresh rate micro-OLED display, which beats most other glasses that currently have a refresh rate of 120Hz.  In order to make that refresh rate work, though, you'll need to have the glasses plugged into the ROG Control Dock, which has two HDMI 2 ports and DisplayPort 1.4.…

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