Samsung’s New VR Headset and Glasses Will Run on AI-Centric ‘Android XR’

Google and Samsung are again letting their Wonder Twins powers activate, this clip successful the signifier of an all-new VR and AR level dubbed “Android XR.” The companies dropped the details of their plans for upcoming headsets and glasses that volition get soon. All that caller hardware volition person a UI that volition facilitate Google’s Gemini AI exemplary successful a mode that volition connection controls “beyond gestures.”

If Google and Samsung are pursuing Apple into the VR rabbit hole, they’re doing it with a much cautious descent. The archetypal instrumentality to usage this all-new Android XR isn’t really present yet. Samsung calls it “Project Moohan,” based connected the Korean connection for “infinity.” As you tin spot above, Samsung provided a rendering of its archetypal headset design. Based connected the image, Samsung’s archetypal XR headset has a constrained plan without galore evident AR sensors similar the 1 you spot connected the Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S, oregon Apple Vision Pro.

Samsung hinted about its XR plans past period but didn’t connection galore specifics astir its upcoming devices. The institution said its headsets and glasses volition person interior displays and passthrough capabilities. The large quality betwixt these goggles and glasses compared to others connected the marketplace is that it’s AI-forward. Samsung said you should beryllium capable to power it with your voice, akin to the Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses. The instrumentality volition apt person immoderate benignant of oculus and manus tracking, but Samsung said you should beryllium capable to usage “natural conversation” to entree the instrumentality oregon immoderate of your apps.

© Gif: Samsung

Android XR is expected to facilitate virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed world features with a big of emblematic Android apps similar Google Maps oregon YouTube. Samsung shared a video of this Android XR level successful which a idiosyncratic clicks connected a YouTube VR video acceptable successful Florence, Italy. This diagnostic is besides disposable successful the Meta Quest done the still-glitchy YouTube app.

Just this week, Google announced its Gemini 2.0 model. The Android shaper said the full constituent of its caller exemplary is to facilitate AI agents–essentially AI that tin instrumentality implicit power of your instrumentality connected your behalf. That’s the wide conception down Android XR arsenic well. In a statement, Google’s president of Android, Sameer Samat, said his company’s AR platform’s multimodal AI volition “enable earthy and intuitive ways” to usage these devices.

Google and Samsung look to bespeak they, too, person bought into the thought of AR glasses, yet eclipsing the telephone arsenic everybody’s go-to tech. Meta is presently building retired its Orion existent AR glasses. Apple is besides looking to get into the smart glasses game. Conversely, Google abandoned its clasp successful the AR glasses abstraction aft the extremity of Google Glass. Now, it’s blessed to fto Samsung instrumentality the reins portion it builds retired its caller signifier of the Android ecosystem.