I measured the Steam Frame's FOV. Valve undersold it

Valve says 110°. My face says 116° horizontal, 108° vertical, 94° binocular overlap. Measured with the What Is My FOV tool by BOLL, stock gasket, my IPD, so yours may differ. Then I put it on next to a Quest 3. Review unit provided by Valve. #SteamFrame ... more - casandchary@youtube

The $149 fix for Steam Frame's black-and-white passthrough

Steam Frame passthrough is black and white out of the box. The Arcturus Vision Camera clips onto the expansion port and gives you 5K HDR colour for $149. Read your monitor, use your phone, see the room. A bit dimmer than Quest 3, otherwise on par. #SteamFrame ... more - casandchary@youtube

Headset Hour: Steam Frame AMA

Join us for a live stream where you can ask us anything about the Steam Frame! We're on US time, so this week we are streaming at a different time. 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear ... more - casandchary@youtube

Snap SPECS Hands-On: The Future Is Here

Snap SPECS hands on: we wore the $2,195 consumer AR glasses at the Los Angeles launch, 51 degree field of view, 132g, see-through waveguide displays, shipping this fall. Snap opened preorders in June before anyone outside the company had worn a pair. ... more - casandchary@youtube

I TRIED Snap SPECS: AR Glasses Are Finally Real

Snap just let us wear SPECS for the first time, and I walked in expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. 👉 Our XR gear recommendations are here → https://casandchary.com/gear We got to try Snap SPECS, the $2,195 consumer AR glasses with see-through waveguide ... more - casandchary@youtube

RayNeo iO: The $479 Smart Glasses With No Camera

Smart glasses with a crown you spin, no camera, and no speakers. RayNeo's new pair is a strange one, and I think that's their point. 👉 Get the RayNeo iO AI Glasses here → https://dada.link/BJ73Qx We go hands on with the RayNeo iO AI Glasses, a pair of ... more - casandchary@youtube

Half-Life Alyx Standalone vs Streamed PC VR on Steam Frame (Side By Side)

Half-Life Alyx standalone vs the PC VR version, side by side on Steam Frame. I still can't quite believe this is running on the headset with no PC. Valve made a native ARM port with foveated rendering and depth reprojection, and your saves sync between ... more - casandchary@youtube

What's in the $1,059 Steam Frame box

Steam Frame unboxing: Valve's $1,059 VR headset ships with the headset, two controllers, the 6 GHz wireless streaming adapter, a glasses spacer, a USB-C cable and a cleaning cloth, but no charger. The power supply is $29 (45W, any 27W USB-C charger works), ... more - casandchary@youtube

I Wore Valve's Steam Frame for a Week. More Than I Expected

Valve's Steam Frame is here, and I've had one for a week. Standalone Half-Life: Alyx, a dedicated PC VR streaming dongle, a Linux desktop, and a $1,059 price tag. Here's everything I could test before launch. 👉 Check out our XR Hub with gear favorites ... more - casandchary@youtube

The world's first AR dive mask! AREX at IFA 2026

AREX brought the world's first AI-powered AR dive computer mask to IFA 2026 - depth, time, gas and decompression projected into your natural line of sight, so you're not checking your wrist mid-dive. What it does: 🤿 Built-in dive computer - depth, time, ... more - casandchary@youtube

RayNeo GT Max: Their Best XR Glasses Yet?

RayNeo's new GT Max finally has the thing we wanted and gives you 59° field of view for $399, which is the widest currently in this category. But there's one design choice that decides what these are actually for. 👉 Get the RayNeo GT Max here → https://dada.link/5UJxqy ... more - casandchary@youtube

I Unboxed the Steam Machine. The VR Part Isn't Out Yet

Steam Machine unboxing: Valve's €1,039 / $1,049 (512GB) SteamOS living room PC with 6 Zen 4 cores, a 28 CU AMD RDNA 3 GPU, 16GB DDR5 plus 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, 512GB or 2TB storage and 4K60 gaming with FSR. It isn't a console. It's a small Linux PC that boots ... more - casandchary@youtube

Phantom Blade Zero Has Its Own XR Glasses. There's A Sword In The Box.

Phantom Blade Zero has its own XR glasses now. We went to Cologne to try them before they ship, and yes, there is a little sword replica in the box. It's such a beautiful package. 👉 Pre-order the VITURE Phantom Beast by November 5 for the Collector's ... more - casandchary@youtube

Steam Frame Is Getting Color Passthrough

I knew it. This looks much better than I thought it’d would be. SO EXCITED. #SteamFrame #VR #Steam #Valve #CasandChary ... more - casandchary@youtube

I Tested The KiWear Ring On Every Device I Own

I've been looking for one controller that works across every device I own for about nine years. This 249 dollar smart ring might be the closest anyone has come. 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear In ... more - casandchary@youtube

KiWear Ring: I Control Every Device I Own

The KiWear smart ring is a gesture controller for VR headsets, smart glasses, phones, laptops and TVs, launching on Kickstarter September 2nd at $249 for early birds. Here's the unboxing and my first impressions. 👉 KiWear → https://www.kiwear.com/ If ... more - casandchary@youtube

Headset Hour: New Quest 3 Games | VR Live

We are back to streaming, and we are starting with the newest Quest 3 games we have not touched yet. 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear In this live stream, we go hands-on with new Quest 3 games live ... more - casandchary@youtube

The Smart Glasses You Can Buy Are Already Outdated

Lumus showed a 70 degree full-color waveguide at AWE 2026, more than three times the roughly 20 degree field of view of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, and made with regular glass instead of silicon carbide. Lumus made the lens inside the Meta Ray-Ban Display, ... more - casandchary@youtube

Headset Hour: New Quest 3 Games | VR Live

We are back to streaming, and we are starting with the newest Quest 3 games we have not touched yet. 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear In this live stream, we go hands-on with new Quest 3 games live ... more - casandchary@youtube

VITURE Pro 2: Cheaper, Lighter, and Missing Three Things

VITURE's newest XR glasses are lighter, sharper at the edges, and $160 cheaper than the pair they replace. But some things disappeared, and their marketing is not going to tell you about them. I will ;) 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio ... more - casandchary@youtube

Pimax Went Small, And I Wasn't Expecting That

The Pimax Dream Air is a PC VR headset with Sony micro-OLED displays at 3840 x 3552 per eye, pancake lenses, and a visor weighing under 170 grams. Pimax spent years building its name on giant, ultra-wide field of view headsets, so it's genuinely interesting ... more - casandchary@youtube

Maybe We've Been Building Headsets Wrong

The XREAL AURA is a pair of Android XR smart glasses that move the processor and battery into a pocket puck, keeping the glasses under 95 grams with 6DoF and hand tracking. Most AR glasses cram everything onto your face, which means weight and heat. XREAL ... more - casandchary@youtube

Nobody Else Is Making Smart Glasses Like This

The Raven Prism is a privacy-first pair of smart glasses that's secretly a full Linux computer, with a physical camera cover, on-device eye tracking, and hot-swappable batteries. Most smart glasses point a camera at the world by default. The Raven Prism ... more - casandchary@youtube

63 Grams. $299. VITURE's Thinnest Yet

63 grams. The new VITURE Pro 2 is the thinnest and lightest pair of XR glasses VITURE has made, and at $299 it launches $160 cheaper than the original Pro did. That's the new VITURE Pro 2, and you feel it the second you pick them up. The old Pro was 77 ... more - casandchary@youtube

Snap's $2,195 Gamble Nobody Has Tried

I've wanted this since I was a kid, and Snap just got the closest anyone has. Real AR glasses that look like... glasses. Okay yes, they're still a little thick, but... 132 grams, 51 degree field of view, and holograms in your actual room. It's pretty ... more - casandchary@youtube

These Drone Goggles Do Something VR Still Can't

I put on two pairs of drone goggles and looked around from a drone flying way above me, in real time. One of them gets way closer to that VR feeling than the other. 👉 Check out Antigravity and get 20% off + FREE landing pad through our link → https://www.antigravity.tech/drone/antigravity-a1/buy?utm_term=AGR4PUS ... more - casandchary@youtube

This Might Change VR Forever

This is 93 grams, no battery, and it might be one of the lightest VR devices ever made. 🤯 For context: Quest 3 is over 500g. The Bigscreen Beyond 2, the previous lightest VR headset around, is 107g. This one just came in even lighter, and it doesn't ... more - casandchary@youtube

This AI Camera Turned Our Day Into a Comic

We did not expect to love this thing 😭 The Looki L1 is a tiny wearable that quietly captures little moments all day, then every evening turns them into Auto Vlogs and Comics. The comics are our favourite. Cas and I actually sit down at night to see what ... more - casandchary@youtube

INAIR Pod: The XREAL AURA Competitor?

The INAIR Pod is a $440 puck that turns almost any pair of XR glasses into a spatial computer. But is it actually worth it, and how does it stack up against XREAL AURA launching this fall? I tested it with the INAIR 2 Pro and the VITURE Beast to find ... more - casandchary@youtube

XR Folks: 15-min Survey = Chance At $300 Headset Upgrade

👉 XR folks, your voice matters! Fill out the 32nd Developer Nation Survey & enter to win a $300 voucher of your choice (if you register an account). Help shape what the industry builds next: https://survey.developernation.net/name/dn32/branch/xr_a/?member_id=cas_and_chary&utm_medium=partners&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=dn32_youtube_integration ... more - casandchary@youtube