Samsung Unpacked is predicted to kick off subsequent month with the standard slate of {hardware} bulletins, which this 12 months might embrace the corporate’s newest foldable smartphones, Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7, and its newest Galaxy Watch 8. Rumors counsel although the corporate can also be trying to put its upcoming XR headset, Challenge Moohan, within the highlight too.
Challenge Moohan was introduced alongside Android XR again in December 2024, which would be the first machine to run Google’s upcoming XR working system. Samsung has stated previously that buyers ought to count on Challenge Moohan’s launch someday this 12 months, though it nonetheless doesn’t have a particular date or official title scheme.
Now, Samsung serial leaker ‘Panda Flash‘ stories the corporate’s upcoming combined actuality headset might lastly get a launch date there.
Whereas have been initially anticipating to listen to one thing about Challenge Moohan at Google I/O final month (we didn’t), Samsung is likely to be preserving the machine just a little nearer to residence than initially thought.
Panda Flash, who has been following Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7 leaks and provide chain rumors, moreover stories the headset will launch first in South Korea, after which regularly launch globally someday afterwards—primarily mirroring Apple’s US-first launch of Imaginative and prescient Professional earlier than heading into different markets.
Samsung has proven its supposed Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor at various occasions over the previous 12 months, which incorporates our alternative to go hands-on with Challenge Moohan in December, though the corporate has largely stayed mum on revealing the XR headset’s full spec sheet.
To this point, we all know the Android XR headset is packing in a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 + Gen 2, Sony-sourced micro‑OLED panels (decision nonetheless TBA), pancake lenses, automated interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment, assist for eye and hand-tracking, non-obligatory magnetically-attached gentle protect, and a detachable exterior battery pack. It additionally helps VR movement controllers of some kind, though we haven’t seen these both.
We’re additionally hoping to be taught extra concerning the firm’s good glasses efforts; Samsung is reportedly engaged on a pair of good glasses that might launch someday this 12 months—ostensibly trying to serve up competitors to Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses.
Regardless of the case, we’ll be searching for official dates for Samsung Unpacked, which is predicted to happen someday early subsequent month in New York Metropolis.
