CES 2026 brought with it a ton of interesting new, consumer oriented tech, including monitors. MSI’s MEG X AI gaming monitor looks like one of the more intriguing picks out there, mostly thanks to the AI label slapped all over it.
This seemed to be the trend for most showcases during this year’s CES, as companies pivoted their attention entirely toward AI, while ignoring the actual, already established user base.
The MSI MEG X Is an AI Powered QD-OLED Ultrawide Monitor
MSI’s new monitor does admittedly have some cool features though. For instance, the actual tech powering the monitor is QD-OLED, which makes for some super crisp image quality and proper, deep blacks, as one would expect from an OLED display.
The MEG X also has a 34’’ ultrawide display, with an insane 360 Hz refresh rate. The panel also supports their newest OLED protection tech, which should provide a greater degree of burn in protection.
All in all, it’s a fantastic monitor, until you start to look at its strange AI features. The MEG X has a plethora of AI enabled modes, which include the following:
- AI Tracker: Highlights moving characters with an OSD or overlay.
- AI Scene: Helps you swap between display presets automatically, depending on the content.
- AI Goggle: Reduces the ‘whiteout’ effect of a flashbang.
- AI Gauge: Automatically syncs the monitor light bar with in-game statues.
- AI Vision +: Automatically and dynamically adjusts scene brightness to view darker sections of a game more clearly.
- AI Scope: Scans onto a target, automatically zooming in. Also provides an optional night vision styled viewer.
If all of these sound like an ungodly amount of assists to you, you’d be right. Assuming MSI’s implementation of these AI features is legitimately useful, it could completely transform the way you play the game, and perhaps even bring a serious disadvantage to your opponents.
Some of these features (like the AI Scope and AI Goggle) sound like aim assists and cheats, and you can expect some degree of controversy to go along with it down the road.
It’s a really weird addition on what is otherwise a fantastic OLED monitor, and perhaps one we could have done without. There is no doubt that MSI will charge a hefty sum for this particular monitor, trying to upsell these AI enhancements.
The real question is, do we really need these gimmicks? The monitor is quite good on its own, and the addition of more AI slopware just seems a tad bit pointless.
Until it’s actually out, I’ll take all these claims with a massive grain of salt.
