Viture Beast Review: I Think I Found My New Favorite Display Glasses

8.4 / 10 Score Cnet Score CNET provides expert, unbiased reviews of products and services. When we assign a score, we use a scale of 1-10. Each product we score is evaluated by criteria specific to its category with most assessing pricing, quality, features and performance. Read more on: How we test Viture Beast $549 at Viture Pros Excellent big, bright micro OLED displays Surprisingly strong sound Deep controls to adjust picture size and position Dimmable lenses Works with a variety of USB-C ready devices Cons Glasses still feel a bit bulky Lacks built-in eye-prescription diopter that other models have Table of Contents Viture Beast Review: I Think I Found My New Favorite Display Glasses Where they wow What could be better? No, these aren't AI glasses The best for now 2026 Editor's Note: Viture Beast glasses impressed me with the quality and resolution of its micro OLED displays, audio quality, picture settings, and comfort. They're also less expensive than my previous favorite display glasses, Xreal One Pro. For all of these reasons, they've received CNET's Editor's Choice Award in 2026. The full review is below.Maybe you've never considered putting a monitor on your face. Maybe you don't consider the concept to be very interesting. My question is, have you ever tried it? A whole category of plug-in display glasses has suddenly gotten really, really good, though whether you actually need a pair is a whole other matter. The newest pair I've been wearing, Viture Beast, truly wowed me. Next to Xreal's One Pro glasses, these glasses are the best ones I've ever tried. In some ways, Viture's glasses do things better than Xreal's.A year ago, as I was reviewing the Xreal One and One Pro, I was in love with how good the display quality and customization felt on the glasses -- displays in crisp, bright micro OLED, ones that could be pinned in space, widescreen modes that could turn your laptop into a bigger-screen experience on the go. The Beast glasses match the tested Xreal's latest nearly feature for feature, and they deliver an extremely big, bright and vivid display upgrade to boot, better than Xreal's glasses and produce impressive onboard Harman-powered sound. Viture Beast has won me over. They manage to edge out the Xreal One Pro in some key ways. Scott Stein/CNETAt $549, Viture's glasses are also $50 less than the newly price-dropped $599 Xreal One Pro. While working on my MacBook Air, playing games on my Steam Deck and Switch 2 (with a separately sold Switch battery pack dock adapter) and watching movies on my iPhone, I've fallen in love with these a lot more than I did with Viture's Luma series glasses. The Beast is worth the upgrade if you're into wearable displays.I've been testing with separately sold prescription inserts inside, provided by Viture. The experience is pretty fantastic, no matter how I've used them. Much like other display glasses, Viture's are compact but still on the slightly chunky side. They need to be tethered via USB-C, too. Scott Stein/CNETWhere they wowCompared to the Xreal One and One Pro, Viture's new glasses close the gap on just about every feature I loved. Viture has stacked lots of display settings into these glasses, adding settings I found on Xreal's that I used and loved. They're not frivolous settings -- they're very useful.And just like the Xreal Ones, the Beast can "pin" displays in place, using tracking with three degrees of freedom. That means the virtual monitor can hang in one position,…

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