In keeping with a brand new report, Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses which can be being developed in collaboration with Google received’t arrive till the second half of 2025, however they’ll share some specs with the favored Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
Analysis popping out of China from Wellsen XR reveals just a few new particulars concerning Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses. The report, highlighted by @Jukanlosreve and Maeil Enterprise Newspaper, reveals that Samsung is planning an preliminary manufacturing run of those sensible glasses that would come with 500,000 models, and that they’d be launched in Q3 2025. That’s later than anticipated, however according to what Samsung teased in October.
The glasses will apparently be powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset, the identical chip that’s utilized in Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses – the era getting used shouldn’t be talked about, however Qualcomm had already launched AR2 in 2022.
That’s not the one spec the 2 gadgets share, because the report additionally claims Samsung’s glasses can have a 12MP digital camera and a 155 mAh battery, the identical (give or take 1 mAh) as Ray-Ban’s glasses. When it comes to weight, the glasses would weigh 50g, ever-so-slightly greater than Ray-Ban Meta.
One of many huge questions round Samsung’s XR glasses has been whether or not or not they’d have a show, and it appears this received’t be the case primarily based on this report. To match the burden and battery measurement of Ray-Ban Meta whereas including a show can be… spectacular, to say the least. With this report revealing {hardware} specs, skipping all point out of a show strongly suggests this product merely received’t be together with one.
Nevertheless, we do get some indication of what these glasses will probably be able to. Gemini would deal with AI duties alongside assist for “fee,” QR code recognition, “gesture recognition,” and “human recognition capabilities.” It’s not totally clear what all of those options will do, nevertheless it suggests a product that’s a bit extra succesful than Meta’s providing. Meta makes use of AI on its glasses to leverage the digital camera for multimodal evaluation and solutions (and scan QR codes), set reminders, and Meta has teased translation options.
We’ll have fairly some time to attend for these glasses to debut if the Q3 2025 date seems to be true, nevertheless it appears potential Samsung would tease the product nicely forward of that launch because it did with the Galaxy Ring earlier this yr. A tease at Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch in January isn’t out of the query.
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