Last year on the Tonight Show, I showed off some sick augmented reality glasses.
And now, a year later, ASUS has partnered with XRE and with us to
sponsor this video to unveil those, except for gamers. Meet the ROG XXRel R1
gaming glasses. These things are in a nutshell, well, they're not in a
nutshell, they're in a hard case. Sick.
The visuals are still supplied by a pair of 1920x 1080 micro OLED displays for
lightning fast 01 millisecond response times. We've still got a massive 57
degree field of view that can create up to a 171in virtual display, whatever
that means exactly. And [music] they are still shockingly bright at 700 nits with
electrochromic dimming, [music] which wait makes them gaming. How exactly? Ah,
well, there is an RGB strip along the side. [music] And the refresh rate is
dialed up from 120 Hz all the way to 240
Hz. [music] And they created this dock to make it way easier to connect to
gaming devices that don't happen to have a fully featured USBC output. Let's
check them out.
Well, my notes say unbox them, but I guess I kind of already did that. Why
don't we have a look at the accessories? Inside the not final packaging, this is
clearly XR's packaging, you will find two additional sizes of nose pads,
depending on the shape of your face, as well as a little lenses frame here.
These can be used to add prescription lenses to your R1 gaming glasses. It
also comes with a handydandy polishing cloth, the cable you'll need to plug it into anything, which is not to be taken
for granted these days, as well as the carrying case that I showed you guys
before. In terms of the fit and finish, it feels quite similar to the XRE 1 Pros
that I've used in the past, which is a good thing. It's just 91 g thanks to
being powered by the Tether rather than an integrated battery, and has a simple
interface that includes an action button, a rocker button for navigation,
as well as a programmable macro button. It's also got Bose tuned speakers, which
doesn't always mean a ton, but in this case, they actually sound pretty decent,
but you don't have to use them because, of course, you can just pair your Bluetooth earphones to whatever device
you're using wirelessly. I guess now we plug them in.
>> Let's do it. I feel like driving these off of the ROG Xbox isn't going to be
the best way to take advantage of their 240 Hz display just because of the
limited performance. But this is such a realistic use case for these because
these are a great way to bring a large screen device out and about with you
without having to I don't know staple up a projection screen on the bus. [music]
>> What you could >> good is a good visual. >> There's two main modes. The screen can
either follow you around wherever you're looking or you can lock it in space in
front of you and then it'll just kind of stay there. Well, the electrochromic
dimming is working really, really well because I cannot see my notes at all
through the Steam interface. So, that's cool. What's cool about that, too, is
that you can set it to automatically turn the electrochromic dimming on and
off depending on whether you're looking at the [music] screen. So, if somebody walks up to your desk and you're using
this as like a virtual desktop, you can be like [music] locked in and you can
look over be like, "Hey, sup? Do I look like a big nerd?" A little bit. That's
good cuz I am. It's worth noting there's a couple different sizes. I'm wearing
the one that is for mediumsiz [music] heads which is good because I do not
have a large head. Oh damn, I missed. It's kind of amazing
how good 1080p looks cuz like yeah it's a you know I think I have it set to 171
in screen right now at 5 m or something like that. But like
you know it's it's not that big. Like if you're sitting next to a 1080p monitor,
it's about like it was like this, right? Cuz at that distance, really not bad.
And actually playing more casual games, like I'm playing tape to tape right now,
and I think I probably could get like 150 200 FPS out of this. Like it's
smooth. That OLED, man.
Instantaneous response times make such a difference to how the game looks and and
feels. Oh, I hit the post again.
Cruel. It is worth noting though that there is no HDR support at this time.
So, it's bright and it's OLED and all of that. So, you get that really nice
contrast. He scores again, but no
support for HDR at the moment. I'm just holding this up so that they can [music]
see the school.
Wow. Enough of these. Let's make our way over to the couch, which I can do by
just setting the screen to follow mode. Now, I can always see it. Oh, I forgot
to mention there is actually a third mode. So, there's follow mode, anchor mode, and then there's anchor man mode
where it just ignores any input from your device and just says go yourself,
San Diego, on the screen [music] all the time. That's anchor mode. So, you double
click to get into the full menu. And I've got the frame rate boost off for
now. So, let's go ahead and plug into the dock. The doc's pretty cool. The
idea is that not everything has [music] both the display and data capabilities
that you need to run a device like this. So, ASUS created a dock that has two
[music] HDMI inputs, one DisplayPort input, power in, and then the ability to
plug your glasses into the front. My head [music] is like not compatible with
glasses. I need just like that much. And
then it would sit perfect. [music] Wait. Oh, there's an angle in the hinge.
Okay, that helps a lot. I thought I was like breaking it, but actually that's
that's part of the design. I hope. Another thing ASUS added
compared to the regular XRE version is some carryovers from their gaming
monitors. For instance, if you're a filthy cheater, you can add a crosshair
in the middle. And then they've also got an FPS counter if you're a big nerd like
me. And they're apparently planning more features in the future. This is still
pretty early days. Really not bad 1080p
at this size. Find it hard to be disciplined enough to hold still enough
to like maximize the size of the screen
and also never cut off the corners. But I guess that's what follow mode's for. I
just find I get a bit of a like stereoscopic 3D headache when I use
follow mode. But your mileage may vary. It is worth noting, by the way, guys,
that while I'm showing you what I'm doing, privacy is a major feature of
displays like this. Whether you're on the bus or the plane or in the office,
you can be consuming well pretty much
any kind of content. And if you have the speakers off or very low, then nobody
has any way of seeing what you're doing, which can be great if you're working on confidential materials or if you're
being a degenerate, which I don't judge. Of course, so far we've only showed this
thing connected to mobile devices like a gaming handheld or a laptop. Of course,
the dock also allows you to connect to a desktop, which is probably where we'll
get the most benefit out of our 240 Hz refresh rate. So, why don't we go ahead
and do that? All right, time to try 240
hertz. Now, obviously, not every gamer
who has a monitor like this on their desk would uh put on glasses to game,
but ASUS does see a valid use case for
people who just kind of want to kick back like this and have the display be
wherever their eyes happen to be. Personally, that's not my gaming posture, but I don't judge. Right now,
I'd say the screen I'm playing on is actually about the size of this one. In
fact, here I could I could line them up. actually a little smaller, but it's hard
to tell because it's like way out in front of me. So, I'm not focusing on
something that's right in front of my face, which I personally don't find
uncomfortable focusing at this distance for long periods of time, but your
mileage may vary on that one. Some people find it quite uncomfortable.
Another potential use case for these is as a secondary display. So, if you
turned off the electrochromic dimming, then you could kind of, you know, look
up at like a big TV here, or you could have sort of content playing on the side
separately while you could continue to [music] just use your monitor as you
normally would. Bad news, though, is that at this time, ASUS doesn't have any
pricing [music] information for us. So, it's impossible
for me to tell you if I think they'd be worth picking up or not. And they won't
be hitting retail until about Q2 of this year. However, at that time, they are
going to come bundled with the dock, which is pretty cool. Unless you don't
want the dock, in which case, if you wanted to pick up the glasses separately, that might take a while.
They haven't committed to when, if ever, they're going to sell the glasses
without the dock. Finally, [music] and this is the last important bit, these
types of products are not for everyone. I wish they were, but some people can't
handle VR or augmented reality for long periods of time or even short periods of
time without issues like eye strain, headaches, and nausea. So, Asus
recommends, and I agree, that you should limit your time with them to maybe
[music] 30 to 40 minutes at a time, at least for the first few sessions, so
that your body can adjust. Despite all that, looking forward to when these come
out. Thanks again to ASUS for sponsoring this video and letting me take an early
look at the ASUS RGXR glasses. There's
plenty more CES coverage coming, so stay tuned. By the time you guys watch this,
I'm already going to be in Las Vegas checking out all the cool stuff at the
show. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out uh Hey, that
appearance on the Tonight Show. It's pretty [music] cool. I was really nervous at the beginning, so we just
skipped that part. I'm going to try and do better this time. Oh, I'm going on again. Am I allowed to say that?
>> I don't know. I guess I just did.