Wearable displays, once assumed to be the future, are here . In fact they’ve been here for years, and they’re beloved by their users…which are still a tiny, tiny amount of actual people . But if you’re one of them, or you’re interested in the tech, you know XReal. Which is probably why Asus teamed up with the company for its first set of gaming-grade display glasses. Meet the Asus ROG XReal R1 AR, then take a breath after you say that name. It’s a set of display glasses broadly modeled on existing XReal designs, most notably the XReal One Pro , but tuned specifically for gaming. The idea is that you throw these glasses in your bag with your gaming laptop or Steam Deck Asus ROG Xbox Ally , plug it in, and get a massive OLED display anywhere. How massive? 171 inches, or at least the equivalent of that, if a real one was sitting about 4 meters (13 feet) from your face. All that is nothing new in terms of glasses-based displays. The thing that makes this an Asus ROG collaboration is that it’s the first one with 240Hz of refresh on its tiny displays. That’s competitive with a mid-range gaming monitor or a rather nice OLED TV for gaming. Granted, that’s at a somewhat pedestrian 1080p resolution — for a “virtual” display four times as big as a typical 4K TV, having one quarter the resolution isn’t great. But this is a very different form factor, after all. Since I’m pointing out some low spots, 2ms of latency isn’t great in gaming terms, but it’s probably not a deal-breaker. The R1 AR gets all the other goodies of high-end XReal glasses, including a 57-degree viewing area, anchor and follow modes for the digital window, open-ear speakers with licensed tech from Bose, and auto-tinting electrochromic lenses (the “glasses” part of the glasses can get darker or lighter). These have a neat trick: They can tint darker when you’re looking at the digital screen, then automatically lighten when you look away. To, say, make sure your child isn’t setting fire to something while they play Minecraft on your non-head-mounted TV. The ROG Control Dock, presumably included, can handle connections beyond the standard USB-C. This allows for easy display output from a desktop PC, console, or what have you via HDMI or DisplayPort. It’ll work with an ROG Ally handheld out of the box, including customized touchscreen controls for the virtual display. But it should work with most USB-C display devices, like laptops and high-end phones and tablets, without any extra hardware. Oh, and it had LED lights on the side. Of course. How else would you know that it’s for gaming? Other XReal designs can accommodate prescription glasses lenses, but there’s no mention of them in the initial press release. The Asus ROG XReal R1 (deep breath) AR is scheduled to release in the first half of 2026, but there’s no indication of a price. For the sake of comparison, the very similar Xreal One Pro based on the same core X1 chip runs $650, not including the ROG dock.