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The Sony vs Samsung skirmish is nothing new. Both Sony and Samsung have clearly demonstrated an interest in extended reality over the years. Sony vs Samsung: The Headset Details We Know So Far Sony has been a lot more forthcoming with its XR plans, and what it wants to accomplish with its upcoming XR device.
But other partners like XREAL, Sony, and Lynx are working on new devices compatible with this operating system. Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2.
It will also reportedly be integrated into Samsung and Sony headsets, Play for Dream MR, and Immersed’s Visor. So far HTC has introduced a number of VR headsets, beginning with its first HTC Vive headset in 2016, with room-scale positional tracking and tracked controllers. Prepare to pioneer the next reality.”
Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. According to a recent report, the successor of the first Vision Pro may come in 2026 and have a price comprised between $1500 and $2500. Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.
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But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. 1, 2026 for consumers and Nov. Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade.
Rumors earlier this year suggested Sony, the company responsible for making Apple’s OLED displays, can only produce up to 200,000 displays per quarter. Mark Gurman suggested the affordable alternative could be unveiled in 2025 or pushed back to 2026. There are no physical controls included with the device.
Mini golfers in Meta, Sony, Valve, and Pico, will soon be joined in VR by iPhone players logging in from Martell's Walkabout Mini Golf - Pocket Edition. So far, Martell's team partnered with Wallace & Gromit, Myst, Jim Henson Company and Meow Wolf for mini golf theme parks, and they've got a release schedule that charts into 2026 already.
This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026. Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset.
But if you remember well, Mark Zuckerberg entered so aggressively the XR market so that he could have full control of the XR platform, without having to respect the rules imposed by the stores and the OSes from Google and Apple, so he could not accept this proposal. So at first sight this seems a great deal.
The report also notes that Amazon is working on an embedded screen for future Echo Frames glasses that could show up sometime in Q2 2026. It seems (my speculation) that this program is about offering a store of educational content , plus some sort of MDM device manager to allow teachers to control the headsets of the students.
Google does not have the same reliability as Apple, but still, if the company that controls most of the smartphone market re-enters the XR field, and it does that with Samsung, which is one of the best manufacturers of phones, there must be a reason. But this may need at least one year to happen, so its again 2026-2027.
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