Viture Beast review: I think I’ve found my new favorite viewing glasses

You’ve probably never thought about putting a screen on your face. Maybe you don’t consider this concept very interesting. My question is have you tried it before? A whole category of extra viewing glasses is suddenly really good, although whether you actually need a pair is another matter entirely. The newest pair I’ve been wearing, the Viture Beast, really impressed me. next to Xreal One Pro glassesThese glasses are the best glasses I have ever tried. In some ways, the Viture glasses work better than the Xreal glasses.

A year ago, while I was reviewing Xrill One And the One Pro, I loved how good the display and customization felt on the glasses — the ultra-sharp, bright OLED displays, the ones that can be mounted in space, and the widescreen modes that can turn your laptop into a larger screen experience on the go. Beast glasses virtually match the latest Xreal-tested features, offering an extra-large screen upgrade, bright and vibrant playback, better than Xreal glasses and producing impressive sound powered by Harman.

At $549, the Viture glasses are also $50 less than the Xreal One Pro’s recently dropped price of $599. While working on my MacBook Air, and playing games on my device Steam surface and Switch 2 (With separate sale Replace the battery pack base adapter) and watching movies on my iPhone, I fell in love with these glasses much more than I did with Viture’s Luma series glasses. The Beast is worth the upgrade if you’re a fan of wearable displays.

I tested using the separately sold prescription inserts inside, provided by Viture. The experience is pretty great, no matter how you use it.

Where they wow

Compared to the Xreal One and One Pro, the new Viture glasses close the gap on almost every feature I loved. Viture has packed a lot of the display settings into these glasses, adding settings I found on the Xreal that I used and loved. They’re not trivial settings – they’re very useful.

As with the Xreal Ones, the Beast can “lock” displays in place, using tracking with three degrees of freedom. This means that the virtual screen can be held in one position, allowing your head to turn freely while the screen appears fixed in place. This mode is what I use all the time with laptops (even while gaming) because it allows me to focus on parts of the screen without feeling like they’re glued to my face.

Other features I loved in the Xreals can be found in the Beast as well: The glasses have dimmable lenses that can be tinted to different levels, and work like sunglasses, to help see the screen better against bright light. It doesn’t completely block out the light, but it does a decent job.

Viture’s Micro-OLED displays are also exceptionally bright, reaching up to 1,500 nits. At the highest brightness, it’s so bright that I have to turn it down a bit for comfort. It makes video game graphics look lifelike; Movies look great too. The ultra-bright display helps overcome lens color limitations.

These viewing glasses have an automatic transparency mode, which returns the lenses to transparency when you tilt your head away from a screen held in place. It’s a great everyday mode to watch something, and then still be able to quickly check your phone on your lap or turn to chatting with someone next to you (or addressing a flight attendant on a plane).

The glasses can adjust the screen size to what appears to extend across the room or to several sizes. The glasses can also adjust the perceived distance. The color temperature can also be adjusted for movie watching or eye comfort modes. A set of multiple buttons on both arms adjust all the features as needed, sometimes with a complex click sequence. But once I got the hang of it, it was amazing how many small adjustments I could make quickly.

The Beast’s small OLED displays are the best I’ve seen, both in terms of brightness, resolution, and field of view. When it comes to field of view, this comes out to 58 degrees, slightly higher than the Xreal One Pros. It’s also much brighter: 1,500 nits versus 700 nits on the Pro. The Xreal’s One Pro has a maximum resolution of 1900 x 1080 pixels per eye, while the Viture Beast is technically 1920 x 1200 (but Viture hasn’t enabled resolution scaling in the firmware yet). Movies like Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Elephant Man, and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds looked great, even at 1080p. It’s great personal cinema.

The Frames also feature a widescreen mode, which, similar to the Xreal, can create a larger screen for your laptop or tablet. This means moving your head to see everything since the screen’s field of view can’t fit everything, but it can be useful for planning multiple applications while working.

The Beast and One Pro use similar lens systems, with a flat prismatic lens that reduces reflections compared to low-profile glasses. I also like that, just like on the Xreal One Pro, the prescription inserts are placed on the inner lenses rather than the tele-angle. Prescriptions are sold separately, and are attached by a clip near where the adjustable nose piece is attached. (Many sizes of nose pieces are included.)

What could be better?

For all I like about Viture Beast, it’s still a very strange proposition. These types of viewing glasses have a more bulky appearance than regular glasses and are something you are meant to wear for a period of time while working, watching movies, or playing games. Then you remove them and place them in the included glasses case. It’s a little thicker and heavier than the Xreal One Pros, and I can feel the weight on my face.

Like all viewing glasses, they must be linked to your device using a cable. It works using DisplayPort-compatible USB-C cables, but the connectivity always feels a little awkward compared to the rest of my lovely wireless life. The Beast glasses use a standard USB-C port on one arm of the glasses, unlike the magnetic pin connection found on previous Viture glasses, which required its own dedicated charging cable. The standard port is more convenient (Xreal does this too), but I liked the magnetic system before.

These glasses also do away with the automatic diopter eye adjustment system that was available on previous models, which could fit eye prescriptions within a specific range. My highly myopic eyes couldn’t achieve this goal, so I don’t miss it.

Also, the photoelectric tinting on the lenses of glasses that dims the world around you while watching movies doesn’t get as dark as I’d like. There is still slight bleeding in the real world, like sunglasses. A separately sold light blocker over glasses helps remove black objects better. At the very least, the super-bright 1,500 nits display can overcome most ambient light in everyday settings.

A small camera mounted on the bridge of the glasses could also allow full movement in the room (six degrees of freedom), and possibly for augmented reality experiences. But this only works via an Android phone app called Spacewalker.

On iOS, Spacewalker attempts to create a kind of widescreen desktop for phone, where your phone can act as a cursor to point and tap apps as they hover in front of you, like a remote control. Spacewalker can browse your photos and videos and even convert them to 3D, but links to Nvidia GeForce Now, Xbox Game Pass, and Netflix require browser-like logins. I won’t do this on a third-party app – I’ll use apps I already have.

No, these are not AI glasses

Just to be clear: add-on viewing glasses like Viture and Xreal are not AI glasses. They don’t connect to AI services, and they don’t take photos of people in general. (The They’re really just wearable monitoring headphones for your face in the form of glasses.

That doesn’t mean glasses like these can’t eventually work with AI. Viture’s ambitions extend into augmented reality and spatial computing, and with some of the company’s more sophisticated accessories and applications, it could get there soon. But it’s not wireless, and is designed to tether to your phone or other devices as an expanded display of what you’re already using there.

I expect AI glasses and display glasses to converge in the next few years, but we’re not there yet. Maybe that’s a relief to you, or maybe it’s frustration. I find that somewhat comforting, although it also means that these types of glasses aren’t really what I think they’ll look like in the final form.

To get a hint about upcoming bridges, Halo Project Xreal — an upcoming pair of viewing glasses that also connect to the processor base to run a full suite of Google, Gemini, and Android XR apps — are coming later this year at a yet-to-be-announced price. Viture has its own experimental AR headset variants as well, including the AR-focused Luma Ultra model. The Beast is more focused on being a killer AV device, and it succeeds at that.

Best at the moment

So, yes, the Viture Beast is the pair of glasses that will win in 2026. That doesn’t mean I don’t still like Xreal glasses, but I would rather wear the Beast now. And for the price, these glasses are great – even if they’re probably something most people don’t need or want to spend money on.

Just keep in mind: IF Spectacles scene They continue to move as quickly as they are now, and the displays and features on similar glasses can continue to improve regularly.