Asus and Xreal have announced the Asus ROG Xreal R1, a new set of XR glasses aimed squarely at gamers. They're PCVR glasses with a 57-degree field of view, auto-tinting lenses and Bose sound built into the glasses temples. And they've got a wild 240Hz refresh rate.

These are effectively a souped-up version of the Xreal One Pro, a set of XR glasses Xreal released last year with the same size Sony Micro-OLED displays with 1080p resolution and the same 57-degree field of view. But 240Hz is double the refresh rate offered with those glasses, and the Xreal R1's 2ms reponse time is a tick faster than the 3ms of the One Pro. Like the One Pro, the R1 can accept video via USB-C, allowing them to show you a virtual display, like from your computer or, say, an Xbox Ally X handheld.

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.

But not all of our favorite gaming handhelds let you output video over USB-C all willy-nilly (ahem, Switch 2). 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.

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 – compare that to the hundreds of grams a typical VR headset weighs – could make for a wildly compelling on-the-go virtual display.

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 – 240Hz and all.

Lastly, the glasses feature electrochromatic lenses that can tint automatically – either when you step into bright light or look at your virtual display – 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 – the company says the glasses will ship in the first half of 2026.

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.