If you’ve been curious about wearing a display on the go or picking up a VR headset, there are a few deals that caught my eye.

I’ve been testing VR headsets and smart glasses for well over a decade at CNET. That’s a lot of time with a lot of things on my face. As always, you don’t need things like VR or smart glasses in your life. But there’s a particular subcategory of smart glasses, better known as tethered display glasses, that are surprisingly useful for travel and fun for portable movie-watching and game playing. Much like VR headsets, these glasses aren’t meant to be worn all the time. And, unlike many other smart glasses, they don’t have cameras onboard by default.

Amazon’s Prime Day sales are here Oct. 6 and 7, and as always, it’s a grab bag of deals and recycled sales that have been around before. Three things caught my eye, though. One’s a very good deal, and the others are notable sales that are likely to be around even after Prime Day is gone.

TCL's more "budget" RayNeo Air 4 Pro glasses cut some features, but the display is impressive. / Scott Stein/CNET

The going price for good entry-level tethered display glasses has fallen to $299 this year, a price shared by RayNeo’s Air 4 Pro, Xreal’s A01 Plus (which I’ve started liking even more) and the Viture Pro 2, which has some prescription adjustment built in (I’m still reviewing those). But this big price drop on RayNeo’s pair makes them the least expensive but still really good glasses I can remember.

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