Viture Beast review: Promising XR glasses in need of some fixes

The Viture Beast XR glasses are a solid option if you’re looking for a capable and innovative pair of wearable displays. As such, they are a great option if you want to elevate your gaming, video and productivity experiences, especially if you don’t have the room or setup to allow for a large desktop monitor.

The Beast comes in at $550 – it’s neither the cheapest, nor most expensive pair in its class. There are several great things they do better than their biggest competitor, Xreal, and also some things that clearly aren’t up to their rival’s standard.

Let’s jump straight to these key areas!

What’s great about the Viture Beast XR glasses

The one major benefit of the Viture Beast compared to glasses like the Xreal 1S or Xreal One Pro is the high brightness that can be maintained in anchored display mode. Xreal glasses support very high brightness, but as soon as you enter anchored mode, or use the follow stabilizer, they reduce brightness very substantially.

The other area where The Beast shines is audio quality – it tends to sounds a bit better clearer and louder than its Xreal competitors, which is very much appreciated, especially considering the fact that Bluetooth earbuds aren’t always an ideal solution, especially in gaming scenarios, where latency is very much noticeable.

The Viture Beast XR glasses come with a lot of customization options. You can easily resize your virtual display, switch between 1080p and 1200p, 60 Hz or 120 Hz, go into ultrawide mode, 3D mode or choose the exact position of the minimized side view display.

The glasses even support Viture’s SpaceWalker app, which allows you to configure the virtual displays of your devices in a multitude of different ways to achieve maximum comfort and productivity. SpaceWalker isn’t the easiest piece of software to deal with, but once you get the hang of it, it can serve you well.

The not so great things about the Viture Beast XR glasses

For all the potential and feature the Viture Beast glasses promise, there are a number of areas where more work needs to be done, especially at this $550 price point.

First of all, in anchored display mode, the screen has a tendency to drift away, so you often have to recenter it. I hope Viture is going to address this with an update, because it can ruin the anchored viewing experience, which is a big part of the XR promise here.

The glasses often “forget” their settings. There was a software update meant to fix that, and I did update the glasses all the way to the most current software version, but my settings kept being reset upon disconnecting the cable or changing display modes (normal, 3D, ultrawide).

The 120 Hz option proved to be particularly hard to keep enabled, as The Beast often reverted to 60 Hz, for some reason.

If you’re a fan of the balanced experience where you want the screen to follow you as you look around, but still stay relatively stable, I think Xreal’s stabilizer features works better than Viture’s smooth follow, because smooth follow has a constant floatiness to the display, which is somewhat distracting and unnecessary.

Should you get the Viture Beast XR glasses?

Well, this is a tough one, not least because both Xreal and Rayneo are very solid alternatives.

There are some features that shine with The Beast, such as the high brightness output in anchored mode, or the impressive sound quality.

On the other hand, I find their software needs a bit of work to eliminate issues with lost settings and the drifting of the display in anchored mode. In my experience, these are the biggest issues to be sorted out with the Viture Beast right now.

But, Viture is definitely onto something here. Just look at their website – these guys know a thing or two about product branding and marketing!