Samsung might be launching its Undertaking Moohan combined actuality headset subsequent month, based on a report from South Korea’s ETNews (Korean), which hopes to tackle Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional within the prosumer XR section.
Citing trade sources, ETNews maintains that Samsung’s Cellular Expertise division will unveil Moohan (Korean for ‘Infinite’) on-line on October twenty first—probably within the morning of October twenty second in Korea, which can embody specs, worth and the flexibility to buy the headset.
South Korea’s Newsworks beforehand reported that Samsung would unveil Moohan throughout an occasion scheduled for September twenty ninth, with gross sales approaching October thirteenth in a Korea-first debut, nonetheless the most recent ETNews report maintains the schedule was adjusted as a consequence of Samsung’s shifting advertising and marketing technique and closing high quality checks.
It’s unsure whether or not Moohan is now aiming for a world launch out of the gate, or sticking to the beforehand reported Korea-first technique. Moohan is anticipated to be priced between between ₩2.5 and ₩4 million South Korean gained—or between $1,800 and $2,900 USD—which is seen as means of undercutting Imaginative and prescient Professional ($3,500).
As the primary XR headset operating Google’s Android XR working system, Moohan might function a foil to Apple’s VisionOS working system for Imaginative and prescient Professional, which provides customers entry to most iOS apps along with standalone content material created particularly for the gadget—a pointy distinction from Meta’s Horizon OS for Quest, which requires builders to manually port Android apps to the platform.
The inclusion of Android XR won’t solely give Moohan entry to the huge library of Android smartphone apps and native XR content material (ostensibly ported from Quest), but in addition consists of the flexibility to natively stream PC VR video games, like Quest.
The gadget is anticipated to combine Google’s multimodal AI, along with supporting voice, hand and eye-tracking as enter strategies. We’re nonetheless ready to listen to about Moohan’s long-promised first-party movement controllers.
As for specs, Moohan is alleged to characteristic micro-OLED panels equipped by Samsung Show, packing in a pixel density of three,800 ppi, operating on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset with 16GB of RAM. Samsung has been tight-lipped on specs since Moohan was first unveiled late final 12 months, so we’re ready to listen to extra.
And it seems Samsung isn’t casting a really huge web with Moohan both, based on the report. The corporate is allegedly solely concentrating on an preliminary cargo quantity of round 100,000 models, with later targets adjusted based on early demand.
