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The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right

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Cameron Faulkner
The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right
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The Glorious GHS InfinitePlay wireless headset introduces a hot-swappable battery system that allows for continuous use without audio interruption. This design improvement addresses common frustrations with existing high-end gaming headsets.

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This product represents a meaningful quality-of-life advancement in consumer gaming hardware.

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New gaming gear is always promising to shave milliseconds off latency or response time. The improvements usually aren’t obvious. But the Glorious GHS InfinitePlay wireless headset, on the other hand, could save you far more than just milliseconds: It has the fastest hot-swap battery system I’ve ever used, and the headset doesn’t die when you swap out its battery either.

Glorious improves on the formula popularized by SteelSeries, which made swappable, rechargeable batteries a feature worth caring about in a high-end headset. Its new $229.99 headset has zero audio downtime while swapping batteries because it has a fallback battery that can run up to three hours. This is a big upgrade over competing headsets, like the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni and the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro 2, which disconnect the moment their batteries are removed for swapping.

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