ASUS ROG XREAL R1 Ships Worldwide as the First 240Hz Micro-OLED Gaming AR Glasses, Pairing Dual 1080p Displays With a Multi-Console Dock at $849

Overview

ASUS Republic of Gamers and its hardware partner XREAL have begun worldwide shipping of the ROG XREAL R1, a pair of tethered gaming AR glasses that the companies describe as “the world’s first 240Hz micro-OLED gaming AR glasses,” according to ASUS. The product first appeared at CES 2026, where ASUS announced it in Las Vegas on January 5, 2026, according to an ASUS press release. Global shipping began June 1, 2026, according to Eneba, at a price of $849, according to Gizmodo.

What We Know

The R1 is built around a pair of micro-OLED panels running at a 240Hz refresh rate with a 0.01ms response time, according to the ROG product page. The panels are Sony 0.55-inch micro-OLED at a 1920 x 1080 resolution, according to ASUS. ASUS says the glasses project a 171-inch virtual screen at 4 meters with a 57-degree field of view, according to the ROG product page, and reach 700 nits peak brightness with 106% sRGB coverage, per the same page. The company lists a 3ms motion-to-photon latency and a weight of 91 grams, according to the CES press release.

Connectivity runs through a ROG Control Dock that carries two HDMI 2.0 ports and one DisplayPort 1.4, according to the ROG product page. Gizmodo reports that the dock connects three devices — “two via HDMI 2.0 and one through DisplayPort 1.4” — and lets users switch between them with a single button. The glasses also offer USB-C plug-and-play connectivity with ROG Ally integration, allowing the handheld to directly control the glasses, according to the ROG product page.

On the tracking and comfort side, ASUS lists native Three Degrees of Freedom (3DoF) support, real-time 2D-to-3D conversion, and electrochromic lenses that adjust transparency, according to the global availability release. The ROG product page describes an Anchor Mode and a Follow Mode alongside three manually adjustable electrochromic tint levels, per the ROG product page. Audio is handled by Sound by Bose technology, according to ASUS.

Pre-orders opened on May 15, 2026, according to Eneba. Gizmodo notes that the $849 R1 costs “$200 more than the $650 MSRP for the Xreal One Pro,” and characterizes the two products as “spec for spec…the same, except for that refresh rate and the slightly more gamer-y design.”

What We Don’t Know

ASUS has not published independent, measured performance figures to accompany its headline numbers, and the 240Hz refresh rate is quoted “with boosted frame rate enabled” while the 700-nit brightness is quoted “with increased brightness enabled,” according to the global availability release — leaving the sustained, out-of-the-box figures unspecified. The glasses provide 3DoF tracking rather than full positional (6DoF) tracking, which limits the kind of room-scale immersion associated with dedicated VR headsets.

Analysis

The R1 occupies a narrow slice of the wearable-display market: it is a display accessory rather than a standalone computer. Unlike the standalone Android XR and Ray-Ban-style smart glasses that dominated 2026’s announcements, the R1 has no onboard AI assistant and no independent compute — it mirrors a signal from a PC, console, or the ROG Ally through its dock. The pitch is narrower and more concrete: a large, high-refresh personal screen for gaming that weighs 91 grams and plugs into hardware players already own. At $849, it is priced as a premium peripheral, and its closest reference point, as Gizmodo notes, is XREAL’s own One Pro rather than a full headset.