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

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. The dock can be used to switch between a PC and multiple game consoles while wearing the glasses, in case you feel you need that. Watch this: Asus and Xreal Just Made ROG Gaming Glasses, and They're Smooth 02:46My current favorite display glasses, Viture Beast, have a better resolution (1,920 by 1,200) compared to these ROG glasses (1,920 by 1,080) and are brighter than these glasses, which only go up to 700 nits. And they cost less ($549), although they don't come with a console-switching dock. Xreal's One Pro glasses are $599 and are practically the same in many ways, meaning that dock costs $250. The ROG R1 glasses have similar Bose-powered sound, the ability to pin a virtual monitor in place while moving your head and dimming electrochromic lenses, plus the flatter, more antiglare inner lenses of the One Pros.I'd prefer if the ROG Xreal R1 had a better resolution or even a larger field of view. (This one's 57 degrees, just like the Xreal One Pro.) Better glasses are coming: Xreal's own Project Aura, technically part of a mixed reality computer package made with Google coming later this year, has a 70 degree field of view (at an unknown price).In this economy, the whole thing's a hard sell, to say the least. But if you've dreamed of 240Hz display glasses, these are those.