Could Samsung's Android XR Headset Launch Next Month – In South Korea?

Might Samsung’s first standalone XR headset launch subsequent month, however solely in South Korea?

PandaFlash, a Samsung-focused leaker, appeared to strongly trace so in posts on X. The posts counsel the launch would happen throughout a July Samsung Unpacked occasion, and that the headset would “slowly slowly” develop globally.

Nonetheless, different rumors counsel that the July Samsung Unpacked occasion will happen in New York Metropolis, and it will appear slightly unusual to launch a product for Korea in a US metropolis.

Particular Particulars Stay Sparse

Samsung’s headset was first introduced nicely over two years in the past, with the corporate saying from the beginning that Google would deal with the software program and Qualcomm would offer the chipset.

That chipset was revealed in the beginning of final 12 months to be the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chip in Quest 3 and Quest 3S, which has already shipped in Play For Dream MR.

The precise design of Samsung’s headset was lastly revealed in December, alongside Google formally naming Android XR, and Samsung mentioned it will ship it as a product in 2025 because it gave UploadVR’s Ian Hamilton a hands-on demo.

Whereas Samsung hasn’t confirmed any additional particulars since then, in March we noticed a number of South Korean stories with claims concerning the headset’s shows, manufacturing scale, and launch window.

The Elec reported that Samsung’s headset will use Sony’s new 1.35-inch 3552×3840 micro-OLED show, with increased decision and wider colour gamut than the one in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

In the meantime, Enterprise Publish claimed that Samsung will launch the headset in Q3 (July, August, or September), but additionally that it plans to supply simply 100,000 headsets per 12 months, suggesting a really excessive worth.

Xreal Venture Aura Helps Android XR By way of Tethered Puck

Xreal’s Venture Aura will assist Google’s Android XR by way of a tethered compute puck with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.

We had anticipated both Google or Samsung to share extra concerning the headset at I/O in Could, however the focus there was way more on sensible glasses, in addition to the announcement of the second formally confirmed Android XR headset, Xreal’s Venture Aura.