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Today, Jason shares his review of the top tier display glass is fittingly called the beast.

The beast.

That really kind of sets the story, doesn't it?

I'm excited.

I'm Jason Howell.

And I'm Rob Dundewood.

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

The big glasses story called the Vitcher Beast, the brand VITURE.

I think it's VITUR. It's V-I-T-U-R-E.

It's easy to think that it's a virtue or vittur if you're distinguished, but I think it's actually Vitcher.

These are a new pair of display glasses.

I think I had reviewed the Xreal 1S maybe on this show a couple of months ago,

and people were pretty positive about kind of me doing that.

So I just wrapped up my review of the Vitcher Beast glasses, and I thought, I'll share it with you.

Not to mention also, just a little peek behind the scenes. It's kind of a slow news day. I think everybody's preparing for Google I.O. and everything, which you're going to hear about tomorrow. Anyways, so why don't we talk a little bit more about these like display glasses category because honestly, Rob, I haven't talked to you about this stuff yet. And I'm curious to know kind of what you think. And I think there might be something with these glasses that might appeal to you because I am also a glasses wearer, normal corrective glasses wearer. We'll get to that. But these glasses are pretty expensive. They're $550 for the pair,ish, right around there. I think they actually launched at $100 to $150 more expensive than that, but then they dropped the price, which I think was a good move on Vitcher's part. They originally launched in January. And so you might be like, why are you talking about it now? We're already in May. And the reason is because when they launched these glasses in January, they did so in that like, yay, the beast is out and it does all these things, except these things that you might want it for are not there yet. You're going to have to wait for a firmware update. And when that happened, I was like, okay, I'm not going to review these until it can deliver on the majority of the promises that they had

out of the gate. And that firmware update came a couple of weeks ago. So while I had been using

these for months, just to get familiar with them, I've used them a lot in the last couple of weeks

with the new updates. So I guess what we can talk about real quick, and then I'll throw it over to you.

What works here.

They've got the widest field of view in the display glasses category, 58 degrees.

Very bright.

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