XREAL’s Best Video Glasses Just Got BETTER

XREAL 1 Pro+ AR glasses are out today for $599, with 1200 nits peak brightness, AI HDR and 60Hz 2D to 3D conversion. It's a refresh of the XREAL One Pro with the same X1 chip, native 3DoF anchoring and 57° FOV, plus Standard, Movie and Reading modes and ... more - casandchary@youtube

Headset Hour: Half-Life Alyx on Steam Frame, No PC

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Headset Hour: Half-Life Alyx on Steam Frame, No PC

Half-Life: Alyx on the Steam Frame, no PC, live for the first time. Then YOU pick what we play next! 🥽 The VR gear we actually use every day, plus our full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear In this livestream, we're showing Steam Frame gameplay ... more - casandchary@youtube

Steam Frame: 10 Things To Do FIRST

Your Steam Frame won't turn on, looks blurry, or won't stream nicely? These are the 10 things I'd do first. 🥽 The VR gear we actually use every day, plus our full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear From powering it on and setting your IPD to ... more - casandchary@youtube

Steam Frame vs Quest 3: PCVR Streaming

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Is $2,195 too much for AR glasses? Snap's CEO answers

Our full interview with Evan Spiegel, Snap’s CEO, about the new Specs is up. It feels like our first real look at a consumer AR spatial computer. My biggest takeaways: Evan sees a screenless future, and this is just the beginning. Specs will be expensive, ... more - casandchary@youtube

The Quest 3 Strap You Can Actually Lie Down In

The Globular Cluster CMQ3 V2 is a modular halo head strap for Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S, and the back swaps out in seconds with two side buttons. Lying-down mode moves the tightening knob to the side and uses a silicone mesh band, so nothing digs into ... more - casandchary@youtube

VR Was Step One. This Is What Comes Next.

This is what's coming next. A dive mask with a display in it, an exoskeleton that made stairs feel shorter, and a robot dog that carries your stuff. We tried it all... let me tell you about it! 👉 Check out the new XGIMI Aura 3 Max → https://xgimi.technology/4qUNy5A ... more - casandchary@youtube

I Tried Meta's 100 Gram VR Glasses

Hands-on with the Meta VR Glasses (codenamed Phoenix), Meta's 100 gram VR headset with a separate compute puck, tried at Meta Connect 2026. It uses micro-OLED displays, a 70° x 66° field of view, the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip and 12GB of RAM, and ... more - casandchary@youtube

I Tried Meta’s New VR Glasses (It’s Not a Quest 4 But...)

I tried the new Meta VR Glasses at Meta Connect 2026. It's a full VR headset squeezed into a pair of glasses, about 100 grams on your face, launching spring 2027 for $1,299.99. 👉 NEW: Our XR Hub, gear, packs & full studio setup → https://casandchary.com/gear ... more - casandchary@youtube

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