Samsung’s upcoming blended actuality headset Challenge Moohan has largely been out of the highlight since its unveiling late final 12 months. In keeping with South Korean outlet Newsworks (Korean), the headset’s launch may very well be proper across the nook.
Citing business sources, Challenge Moohan is reportedly set to be featured at Samsung’s upcoming Unpacked occasion, which is predicted to happen in South Korea on September twenty ninth.
The report maintains the headset is ready to launch quickly thereafter, coming first to South Korea on October thirteenth, and later to international markets. There’s no phrase on when or how the alleged international rollout will work.
The system is predicted to be priced someplace between ₩2.5 and ₩4 million South Korean received, or round $1,800 and $2,900 USD, Newsworks maintains.
Whereas markedly cheaper than Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, which nonetheless sells for its early 2024 launch worth of $3,500, that also places Moohan fairly squarely on the prosumer finish of the spectrum.
Ostensibly trying to serve up competitors to Imaginative and prescient Professional, Challenge Moohan is ready to be the primary blended actuality headset to run Google’s Android XR working system.
In keeping with its present spec sheet, the headset sports activities a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 + Gen 2, Sony-sourced micro‑OLED panels (no decision specs but), pancake lenses, computerized interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment, and assist for eye and hand-tracking. It’s additionally set to assist VR movement controllers of some kind, though we haven’t seen them but.
Make sure that to take a look at our hands-on with Challenge Moohan from December 2024 to be taught extra, together with notes on consolation, show readability, and our expertise with Android XR—which actually seems to be rather a lot like Horizon OS mixed with VisionOS.
Newsworks experiences that Samsung is just anticipating to ship “round 100,000 models” of the system this 12 months—considerably lower than Apple’s alleged 2024 targets for Imaginative and prescient Professional, which third-party analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported final 12 months ranged between 400–450k models. Granted, Samsung doesn’t have a number of runway left till 12 months’s finish, so there’s no telling what it hopes to attain with Moohan.
Nonetheless, business sources count on Samsung’s XR headset to behave as extra of stepping stone to its wider good glasses ambitions, Newsworks says.
Notably, Samsung has but to announce its personal good glasses amidst a flurry of firms trying to enter the house, together with Google’s Android XR good glasses launching in partnership with America’s Warby Parker and South Korea’s Mild Monster.
Following the latest launch of Oakley Meta HSTN, Meta can be reportedly anticipated to launch a brand new pair of good glasses, this time together with a built-in show and wrist-worn controller, in line with a latest report.
Chinese language tech big Xiaomi additionally lately launched its personal good glasses, which go toe-to-toe with Ray-Ban Meta, though look like unique to Mainland China.
In the meantime, HTC unveiled its ‘VIVE Eagle’ good glasses, which is delivery first within the firm’s native Taiwan at NT$15,600 ($520 USD).
