The Asus Micro-OLED AR gaming glasses is likely to be the weirdest factor I've ever examined at CES, and that's saying one thing
The Asus ROG Xreal Micro-OLED gaming glasses are… bizarre. That is the conclusion I’ve drawn after spending ten minutes with them at CES 2026, so take that as you’ll. Nevertheless, it was sufficient time to grasp that, whereas on paper they appear like they is likely to be a good suggestion, in observe, it is… difficult.
The thought is, you get a digital 177-inch monitor beamed in entrance of your eyeballs through a Micro-OLED show inside the glasses, protecting 95% of your imaginative and prescient with a 57-degree subject of view of fantastic gaming constancy. Why have a large display screen in your wall, when you may have a tiny one which creates the identical impact in a wearable kind issue?
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There’s additionally a strip of RGB on either side, which actually, actually would not assist with the aesthetic. The Asus glasses are reminiscent at first of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, however in particular person they’re a little bit too “Buddy Holly goes cyberpunk” for my liking.
“However what concerning the impact?”, I hear you cry. Properly, the picture high quality of the 240 Hz Micro-OLED show is definitely fairly good, regardless of its comparatively low 1080p decision. Sadly, the glasses themselves are cumbersome sufficient, and the frames restrictive sufficient, that the expertise is ruined by a definite impression that you simply’re all hemmed in.
The thought is to create the phantasm of a large show in entrance of your face, however in observe it felt to me like a big display screen by means of a small hole in somebody’s entrance room window.
The display screen additionally stayed in a single spot irrespective of how I moved my head, for technical AR-based causes I do not fake to thoroughly perceive. I’ve since discovered it is because they had been in “Anchor Mode”, which I discovered very, very disorienting.
Angling my head again on the precise proper angle to view the display screen once more had me wanting like an outdated man attempting to learn a bus timetable on a stormy night time. It is not, you may undoubtedly be stunned to listen to, a refined expertise.
Anyway, I futzed round in a racing sport for a bit, determined they weren’t for me, and put them again on the stand the place they belong. Actually, they had been drawing a number of consideration on the Asus sales space. However as one thing I would really wish to personal? Nah, I am good I feel. Onwards.