Phantom Blade Zero just got its own $599 XR glasses, and the case steals the show

What $50 over the standard Beast is really buying you

The optics are unchanged from the standard Beast, which arrived back in April at $549.

So the $50 premium, roughly nine percent, is paying for artwork, a case, a lanyard, a reskinned menu and a box of collectibles. That is a collector's purchase, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as nobody walks in expecting a sharper picture out of it.



Our review of the Beast called it promising but in need of some fixes, and the comparison we kept circling back to was Xreal. The Beast holds its brightness in anchored display mode, where Xreal's glasses cut theirs substantially, and its 58-degree field of view edges past the One Pro's 57 degrees with less distortion along the edges.

If you already own an Xreal 1S at $449, none of this really changes your math. The same goes for anyone on the One Pro at $649, since there is no display advantage here that the standard Beast did not already have.

This is VITURE selling a theme to people who were in the market anyway, not a move against a rival.

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A weapon worn: the temples, the case and a reskinned menu

Start with the metal detailing on the temples, which VITURE modeled after Soul's blade frozen mid-draw, at the exact moment it clears the scabbard. The on-screen menu has been reskinned entirely around Phantom Blade Zero's interface too, so the glasses look like the game before you have even opened it.



The case is a triangular metal drawer wrapped in textured black leather that slides open the way the game's blades do, with no lid to flip.

Specs, and what the Phantom Beast will plug into

Phantom Beast XR glasses specs

• 174-inch virtual screen at four meters, 58-degree field of view
• Sony Micro-OLED panels, 1200p per eye, 120Hz refresh
• 1250 nits peak brightness with 9-level electrochromic dimming

Plug-and-play over USB-C covers Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Steam Deck. PlayStation players need VITURE's Pro Mobile Dock, which opens up PS5, PS4, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, while the Mobile Dock Mini handles Switch and Switch 2 on their own.

Where I would put $599 if the game is already on my list

I like this one more than I expected to. Still, anyone buying it should go in clear-eyed. You are paying $50 over the standard Beast to get the theme, and the screen behind it is the same one our review of that standard model flagged as still needing fixes.

Hopefully the menu reskin turns out to be the interesting part long term, because a display that changes character with whatever you are playing is a genuinely good idea to have sitting inside a limited edition. I would personally love to see VITURE turn that into a normal feature instead of a collector's perk.

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