Rayneo Air 3S Pro

Written by John Yan on 8/12/2025 for MOB   PC   PS5   SW2   XSX  

Are you looking for an inexpensive pair of AR-style glasses? Don’t need all the features such as 3DoF pinning of the image and just want something to watch videos or play games with? RayNeo’s Air series has been one where it offered a great picture, great audio, and is one of the more affordable options out there.

RayNeo sent along a pair of RayNeo Air 3s Pro to review, and if you read my Air 2s Pro review, you’d see that I found the product to be a good pickup for its price point. With the Air 3s Pro, they’ve mostly made improvements on the display side of things.

If you put a pair of Air 2s next to the Air 3s Pro, they’ll look pretty much the same minus the color scheme. A thin, darkened plastic front with RayNeo logos on either end sit on top of the two bird bath lenses that allow your eyes to see a reflected image coming from dual micro-OLED displays.

You have vertical adjustments on the temples in three different positions. Just move them up and down and they’ll click into place. The nose pads come in two sizes and they also have three different positions that they can click into place. You can extend them out and, combined with the adjusting temples, you have a few options to try and get an optimal viewing position for the reflected image.

Each temple has spring-loaded hinges, so if your head is a little wider, you can be assured that they can slide onto your face and not put unnecessary pressure on that part of the glasses.

On each underside of the temple are a set of controls. The left has a menu button and a volume rocker while the right has a brightness rocker. I do like separate rocker switches for brightness and volume, making them very easy to access without going into a menu system or doing multiple button presses.

The menu options allow for adjustment of picture color, refresh rate, and audio options. Here, you have a few choices for picture color from standard, professional, movie, game, and eye protection. A vision boost option seems to brighten up the image a tad when I switch between on and off. You have two refresh rate options in 60Hz and 120Hz. Finally, the audio modes available are standard, whisper, and spatial.

Like the Air 2s, the Air 3s Pro has four speakers: two on each temple and one on the top and bottom. The four speakers deliver high quality audio for this form factor. As I mentioned earlier, there are three audio modes that you can choose from. The whisper mode does help tone down the sound leakage where, if you listen low enough, the amount of sound that people around you can hear will be minimal. The spatial mode was one I didn’t use at all as it made the audio sound like it was in an echo chamber. The few times I tried it in both gaming and media watching, I just switched straight back to normal.

The ends of the temple are slightly flexible so they should help fit your head more comfortably. The USB-C connection is on the right end and RayNeo includes a cable design similar to the Xreal ones, with the tilted connector that has the wire extended slightly down at an angle. The cable is a little stiffer than I would have liked and I would have preferred a braided cable rather than the rubber coating that it has. It’s four feet in length making it equal to cables from other brands as well.

I couldn’t find who made these displays, but they do produce a 1920x1080 image per eye with a pixel per degree or PPD of 49. Most of the ones I’ve tested used displays from Sony and I’ve seen one or two articles referencing they are using Sony displays and others saying they don’t. I’ll update this review once I get some clarification.

The micro-OLED displays allow for up to 120Hz refresh rate, which is now the standard amongst these types of glasses. If you plan on plugging these into something like a Steam Deck, you can assure that you’ll be able to run these at a solid refresh rate for gaming.

Brightness is pretty darn good with RayNeo saying they are capable of 1200 nits. The recently released VITURE Luma Pro’s documented brightness is 1000 nits for comparison. One of the things I do like about the RayNeo Air 3s Pro is that there are 20 levels of brightness adjustments—more than competitors—so you can really dial in to how bright the screen is for you.

Like most of the XR glasses out right now, they use bird bath optics design where the lenses sit at an angle with the image projected onto them. There aren’t many other XR glasses out right now that don’t use this, but it works with some little annoyances. The one that always pops up is the reflection of your torso in certain situations, which can break you out of the immersive setup these types of glasses provide. If you sit in a dark room, you’ll be fine. Anything with any bit of light around you and you can see a little bit of yourself in the glasses. In most cases where I do use these indoors, though, I was able to ignore the reflection when watching media or playing a game.

At the price point, though, the visuals of the RayNeo Air 3s are superb. I was surprised at how well the Air 2s looked and here it’s the same. Colors are vivid, the image is sharp from edge to edge, and brightness is outstanding. They match up well with the more expensive offerings out there in terms of image quality and I just really think RayNeo has some top notch displays in their XR glasses.

One of the best ways to watch 3D movies is through the Air 3s Pros. Connecting the glasses to my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, I fired up The Martian and enabled the 3D mode on the glasses by pressing both the left and right rocker buttons at the same time. A few seconds later and a nice, crisp 3D image came on the glasses.

RayNeo claims it simulates a 201” screen from 6 meters or about 20 feet away, and it does feature a nice, large simulated display. From the Air 2s, there’s a slight increase in FOV at 47 degrees field of view allowing you to see a little bit more than previous RayNeo glasses. I still do have the issue where parts of the edge are out of the field of view. Even doing some various adjustments on how the Air 3s Pro sits on my face, I could never get the entire image viewable at once. This was the same problem I had with the Air 2s.

To help with this, though, you could attach the Air 3s Pro to something that can adjust the screen size. Using RayNeo’s own Pocket TV, I was able to go into the settings menu and reduce the size of the screen a tad, allowing me to see the entire screen comfortably. Unlike, say, the Xreal One line, there’s no onboard chip that allows you to adjust various settings, such as size and screen distance, so you have to rely on the device you’re connecting with to achieve this. Again, at the price point, you wouldn’t expect them to have some built-in hardware solution to address this.

For those that want features such as smooth following or pinning the screen in the air, the Air 3s Pro lacks the 3DoF abilities that enable this. The display rigidly follows your head so those who are sensitive to motion sickness might not be able to use these comfortably. I’m one that doesn’t use any 3DoF features on any XR glasses so I’m fine with the lack of these on the Air 3s Pro.

Another thing that these lack are software IPD adjustments. If you don’t fall into the recommended range of 56mm to 70mm, you’re going to get some eye fatigue and blurriness. Some companies are opting to sell different sizes of their XR glasses to better accommodate the range of IPD out there, but RayNeo only has one size for the Air 3s Pro, and falling outside of that range means you won’t have a good experience with these.

If you need corrective lenses, RayNeo has included a blank for you to take to an eyeglass manufacturer, should you need them. I wish they went the magnetic route like VITURE since they are a lot easier to take on and off, and this is something that I do when sharing the glasses with someone else. For this review, I just put the Air 3s Pro over my normal glasses, and for the most part they sit far enough away from me that they didn’t interfere with my glasses. That said, I’d recommend getting corrective lens inserts if you do plan on wearing them for long periods of time.

For media consumption, I mostly used these with my phone and RayNeo’s own Pocket TV. I watched some YouTube videos, movies on Amazon, and local 3D movies to name a few. All had superb picture quality with the Air 3s Pro. Like I mentioned above, 3D movies really did well with the image showing a great amount of depth and the bright picture enabled a high-quality 3D-viewing experience. The experience was a lot better as well using the Pocket TV to adjust the picture size down to 90%. With that in place, I was really enjoying the full-size picture with edge-to-edge quality.

Plugging the glasses into my Steam Deck, I went into the settings and double checked to make sure it was running at 1920x1080 at 120Hz refresh rate. Sure enough, those were the settings that it defaulted to on my handheld. With that I fired up some games and had a wonderful time playing on a virtual big screen. Again, the brightness combined with the deep blacks of the micro-OLED screens delivered a top notch experience and flicker free gaming to boot. I saw no ghosting in fast-paced games, and the details along with the vivid color made it so I was playing on a higher-quality screen than on my Steam Deck.

The carrying case included with my review unit is just a simple felt case with a velcro strap to hold the USB cable. I actually preferred the case on the Air 2s, which had separate compartments for the glasses and the cable. This was also an issue with another set of XR glasses I reviewed, where the included case took a step backwards by not separating the two. I suggest a nice aftermarket glasses case that has a pocket for the USB-C cable so that it doesn’t have a chance of scratching the lenses during transport.

As I’ve mentioned in my reviews of other XR-style glasses, if you do a lot of traveling or would just like a private portable screen for whatever reason, these are great for those use cases. For the RayNeo Air 3s Pro, these glasses are made for those who don’t want to spend a ton on high-quality styled XR glasses with great picture quality and great built-in speakers.

These are a no-frills type of glasses with minimal picture and sound adjustments. Because of the lack of screen-size adjustment, you might be subjected to blocked corner areas as the simulated image is bigger than the eye box available. There’s no 3DoF feature set so the image will be locked rigidly to your gaze with the Air 3s Pro. And finally, it doesn’t completely block out the outside world and there’s no included shade, meaning you’ll either have to tape up the front or 3D print something to go over the lenses if you want to be completely immersed.

They are comfortable to wear, and I think that for the price, it delivers on a great visual experience—with some limitations. If you want something not too expensive and you're in the market for some XR glasses, the RayNeo Air 3s Pro will do a great job for your media and gaming needs.