I was on my 60th try against a spear-wielding boss named Gaius riding a massive boar; it’d been four hours and my eyes were burning from staring at the screen so intensely. After getting embarrassed by the porcine boss, yet again, I felt something shift. I craved vengeance. One more try before I quit, I said, and to my surprise, that was the one. With my victory claimed, and my heartbeat well over 100, I decided it was time to take a break.

Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is an astoundingly massive addition to an already enormous game. The DLC is packed to the brim with gorgeous new locales, diverse new weapons and abilities, and soul-crushing bosses. That being said, this is also some of the most challenging and brutally difficult content FromSoftware has ever produced. As someone who’s played and beaten everything since Demon’s Souls, this is the first time I’ve ever felt that difficulty hinder my enjoyment. That’s a caveat to what is otherwise a phenomenal expansion, one that finds some fascinating ways to embellish on Elden Ring’s core design.

Apple and Meta are making steady progress towards fulfilling their vision for spatial computing (or mixed reality as it’s also called), but the Vision Pro and Quest 3 are still bulky headsets that come with comfort and battery life compromises. But what if there was another way to get a spatial computing experience that would literally be lighter on your face? Meet Xreal’s Beam Pro.