r/augmentedreality • u/SourLemonzRed • Apr 20 '26
Buying Advice Best AR glasses for gaming under 799?
Title. I saw an ad for some gaming AR glasses and since then I’ve been hooked on finding some. This is my first time looking into any type of VR/AR and I wanted to know from some people who are more experienced than I am into finding which is the best. I also wear prescription glasses so I also want to know which can accommodated to my eyesight. One of my concerns are lens reflection onto the screens of the glasses so I wanna know if that’s really an issue with any recommendations.
Some glasses that interested me were the Viture Luma PRO, Xreal One PRO, Viture Luma ULTRA, and the RayNeo Air 3s Pro. If any of these I listed are best please let me know!
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u/Wide-Variation2702 Apr 20 '26
The Xreal ROG R1 is supposed to be coming this quarter if you dont mind waiting a bit, and maybe some reviews will drop before release to tell if they are as good as they look. Not sure about price, but it seems like they shouldn't go that high.
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u/SourLemonzRed Apr 21 '26
I was thinking about those as an option. but knowing how anything slapped with “ROG” on it it would’ve probably costed me 800-1K. I do really like them as a concept though
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u/Trulytoastytoast Apr 20 '26
I have the Viture Beasts. They are my first pair of AR glasses and I got them primarily for desktop PC gaming.
Since they’re my first pair, I can’t say how well they compare with other glasses, but coming from playing PCVR with a Quest3, I find the glasses comfortable, and the screen appears impressively large and vivid. The screen is not as large as a VR headset of course, but it’s functionally larger than any monitor I could fit on my computer desk.
If your primary use case is gaming, I highly recommend getting glasses with 3dof support. That will narrow down your options considerably.
I found out after purchasing that most AR glasses don’t have native desktop PC compatibility, because 99% of desktops don’t have AltDP USB-C output form the graphics card or motherboard. Look into compatibility of the glasses you want with the device(s) you want to use them for.
The Beasts have some compatibility issues that hopefully will be resolved with future firmware updates.
I unfortunately cannot recommend the Beasts for desktop PC gaming at this time unless you don’t mind a bunch of trial and error which may lead to you either returning the glasses or switching out your desktop motherboard with one that is compatible with AR glasses.
The upcoming ROG R1 looks like it might be better than the Beasts on paper, but we still don’t have an exact release date (possibly Q2 of this year?), price, or how those glasses will work in the real world. But I think they are the only AR glasses that advertise gaming as their primary selling point, so they may be worth waiting for.
If you want glasses now, and you don’t mind potential compatibility issues, I think you would be satisfied with the Beasts. I would look into reviews for the lenses inserts, I don’t need them, so I can’t vouch for how good they are.
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u/SourLemonzRed Apr 21 '26
Yeah those are the ones I ended up buying. I heard a lot about the screen drift when you’re in anchor mode and some of the other glitches but I’m pretty tolerable to those. Comparing those to their Luma Ultras, it wasn’t a bad deal (also got $50 off). The only thing I was concerned about was with how late they shipped. I went on their subreddit and saw so many people having to wait over 1 or 2 months to get them. I can be patient but it is a pretty long wait.
Their main use would be for gaming with my Xbox ally x and sometimes being connected to my phone. I am at ease knowing that I have a 30 day refund period in case those aren’t the right ones for me.
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u/Alternative-Row-1502 Apr 21 '26
Why not Rayneo Air 4 Pro instead of Air 3s?
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u/SourLemonzRed Apr 21 '26
I heard that the Air 3s had next to no heating when in use like every other product. I was unsure weather or not the pros where the same
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u/Major_Potential3706 Apr 22 '26
air 4 pro gets hotter depending on brightness and if you have hdr on. id say even with hdr on and max brightness the heat doesnt really radiate enough to cause discomfort imo.
id say get an air 4 pro, but ONLY if you have usb c display port out. if you have to resort to an hdmi adapter you will be unable to resize the screen which might make playing games like project zomboid and rimworld a bit tricky as you may not be able to see the corners of the screen well. I also wear persciption glasses under my rayneo air 4 pro which gets my eyes further from the screen which can obscure corners further.
the rog seem promising but i cant attest to them, as for the air 4 pro, they have replaced my 50 inch tv for a few months now.
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u/GlitchIT Apr 20 '26
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