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 yr operating Google’s Android XR working system. Now, a report from ETNews (Korean) maintains the South Korean tech big might also have a pair of XR glasses up its sleeves.
Citing trade sources, the report alleges Samsung is growing XR glasses (famous as ‘sensible glasses’ within the report—extra on that beneath) with the purpose of releasing them by the top of the yr.
Samsung is reportedly now finalizing features and specs of the gadget, which is alleged to be codenamed ‘Haen’ (‘coast’ or ‘seashore’ in Korean).
“With Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional already in the marketplace, Samsung’s focus can be on offering a extra superior person expertise,” an trade insider advised ETNews.
Notably, the report doesn’t specify exactly what type 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 generally used interchangeably to refer to 2 kinds of gadgets—AR glasses like Meta Orion, which mix digital pictures with the person’s bodily environment, and sensible glasses, which generally have a extra simplistic heads-up show, just like the now retired Google Glass. You could find out extra in regards to the variations between sensible glasses and AR glasses right here.
For the reason that report doesn’t specify Haen’s particular features, we’ve referred to them as XR glasses for now.
Whereas studies 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 associate 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 brink 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 plenty of emblems over time, 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 yr 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 stated 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 features that might delineate it as sensible glasses of AR glasses as such.
Regardless of the case, Samsung appears to be gearing as much as make the most effective use of its partnership with Google to combine Android XR into its subsequent massive 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 identify continues to be underneath wraps.
Offered Samsung desires to make a splash, it might reveal the gadget at plenty of 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.
