We’ve been ready to listen to about Samsung’s entrance into XR for just a few years now, with the corporate’s nonetheless unnamed combined actuality headset ‘Undertaking Moohan’ set to debut someday this 12 months operating Google’s Android XR working system. Now, a report from ETNews (Korean) maintains the South Korean tech big may additionally have a pair of XR glasses up its sleeves.
Citing business sources, the report alleges Samsung is creating XR glasses (famous as ‘sensible glasses’ within the report—extra on that under) with the objective of releasing them by the tip of the 12 months.
Samsung is reportedly now finalizing capabilities and specs of the gadget, which is claimed to be codenamed ‘Haen’ (‘coast’ or ‘seashore’ in Korean).
“With Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional already in the marketplace, Samsung’s focus might be on offering a extra superior person expertise,” an business insider informed ETNews.
Notably, the report doesn’t specify exactly what kind of gadget Haen is, which is why we’re merely calling them ‘XR glasses’ for now.
The report refers back to the gadget as a pair of ‘sensible glasses’ (machine translated from Korean), nevertheless that is typically used interchangeably to refer to 2 sorts of gadgets—AR glasses like Meta Orion, which mix digital photographs with the person’s bodily environment, and sensible glasses, which usually have a extra simplistic heads-up show, just like the now retired Google Glass. You’ll find out extra in regards to the variations between sensible glasses and AR glasses right here.
Because the report doesn’t specify Haen’s particular capabilities, we’ve referred to them as XR glasses for now.
Whereas reviews ought to usually be taken with a grain of salt, ETNews was the outlet that broke the information that LG was shaking up its XR product division, confirming that talks with Meta have been getting into a seemingly unplanned path. Meta had tapped LG in February 2024 to companion on XR software program and {hardware}, which on the time was rumored to incorporate LG manufacturing a Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor for Meta. LG has since confirmed it’s closing its XR product division, as an alternative specializing in long-term R&D.
Nonetheless, this isn’t the primary time we’ve heard Samsung was on the point of enter the XR glasses market. In 2021, Microsoft leaker ‘WalkingCat’ posted two leaked movies exhibiting off futuristic AR idea gadgets from the corporate. Samsung has additionally filed numerous logos through the years, with its most up-to-date ‘Galaxy Glasses’ patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO).
Then, a report from South Korea’s Yonhap Information final 12 months alleged Samsung would unveil a pair of XR glasses on the the corporate’s Unpacked product occasion in January, which sadly didn’t materialize. Small recompense: Samsung did showcase a slide that includes XR glasses as part of its future roadmap.
The gadget talked about within the Yonhap Information report was mentioned to incorporate a fee perform, gesture recognition, and facial recognition, noting that it was anticipated to launch round Q3 2025. Nonetheless, no point out of shows, or particular capabilities that may delineate it as sensible glasses of AR glasses as such.
Regardless of the case, Samsung appears to be gearing as much as make one of the best use of its partnership with Google to combine Android XR into its subsequent large entry into the phase, Undertaking Moohan.
Till now, we’ve gotten a hands-on with Moohan, and even seen a “near-final” model of the {hardware} again at Unpacked 2025 in January, though its launch date and precise title remains to be below wraps.
Supplied Samsung needs to make a splash, it might reveal the gadget at numerous venues: Google’s upcoming I/O convention in Could, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in October/November, or perhaps a hypothetical particular occasion devoted to each Moohan and probably its XR glasses efforts.
