XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. Notably, the reshuffle is occurring following a partnership with Qualcomm and Samsung to leverage the newly announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset for empowering smart glasses.

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Slashgear

MAY 23, 2022

Though it took longer than users had hoped, Samsung has announced that Google Assistant is finally available on its Galaxy Watch 4 wearable.

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Digital Trends

JULY 20, 2021

Google and Samsung aren't the only ones wanting to change wearables for the better. Qualcomm has opened a forum to drive innovation and plans a new Wear chip.

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GizModo VR

MAY 23, 2022

Samsung and Google have now officially put the Google Assistant on the Galaxy Watch 4. You should receive a Wear OS update with the ability to enable it on your Samsung smartwatch beginning today. The update also applies to Watch 4 Classic users. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 was an exciting development in Android smartwatches because it brought Samsung and Google together to make Google’s watch software platform better. But, weirdly, the best Android watch lacked a major Android feature: Google Assistant. Samsung today said that’s about to change.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google is currently working with Samsung to create an XR headset that directly competes with upcoming Apple’s Vision Pro, leading to a “weird bureaucratic mess,” an employee told Insider. Another employee commented: At Google, there is a great fear that when Apple releases new products, it shifts the landscape.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 13, 2024

Tomorrow, Google’s I/O conference is poised to showcase its latest updates concerning its extensive technology portfolio. From smartphones to AI, Google is very much positioned in the enterprise solutions space with its products. The firm has recently partnered with Samsung and Qualcomm to work on an upcoming XR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2024

Industry analysts, XR enthusiasts, and technology fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new Samsung XR headset for some time now. We first discussed the possibility of an impending new headset at the beginning of 2022 , when Samsung hinted at a reignited focus on extended reality during the Mobile World Conference (MWC) event.

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GizModo VR

MAY 26, 2022

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 , the first Wear OS watch worth considering in a long time for Android users, finally has the Google Assistant. We’ve waited nearly a year for the feature. Unfortunately, it’s not entirely all that it’s cracked up to be—yet. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 10, 2021

Samsung today announced the Exynos W920, its newest wearable processor. The company says it'll power its upcoming smartwatch powered by Google's Wear OS.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2021

Well, folks, the rumors that Samsung is abandoning Tizen for Google’s Wear OS smartwatch platform turned out to be true. At the Google I/O keynote today, Google revealed it’s partnering with Samsung to create a new unified platform that mashes together Wear OS and Tizen OS. Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This month, Samsung continued its recent history of leaking details on an upcoming XR wearable when it filed for a “Samsung Glasses” trademark in the UK. Reports suggest that Samsung plans to unveil a new device at its Unpack event next year, with initial production quantities expected to be around 30,000 units.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 27, 2024

Google I/O 2024 is one of the tech giant’s most exciting annual events for a few reasons. Not only does it give us plenty of updates on new devices and development tools from Google, but it’s also where the company announces some of its most exciting innovations.

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Mashable VR

MAY 11, 2022

Google is joining the wearable business. After creating the Wear OS framework for other smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch , Google is finally making its own watch: The Pixel Watch. Anyway, Google's new wearable was officially unveiled at Google I/O 2022 with a launch date of this fall.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 27, 2023

Today, international electronics vendor Samsung released its Q2 earnings report, highlighting massive financial losses as the firm moves towards producing XR devices and components. In its recorded earnings , Samsung revealed that its Q2 net profits fell by 84.5 percent from last year to $1.4

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Notably here, the announcement is for " a RISC-V based wearables solution," rather than a complete pivot to RISC-V with multiple solutions.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

UploadVR’s Ian Hamilton was on the scene, and managed to get a pretty good capture of both Samsung’s and JDI’s panels with his iPhone 8 camera. Samsung showed off their 2.43-inch, As opposed to Samsung’s display, attendees were treated to a moving scene. inch, 2,160 × 2,432 resolution TFT-LCD (120Hz).

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rumors that Samsung may potentially ditch Tizen , its proprietary OS for wearables, for Google’s Wear OS, have been flying lately. It’s a baffling idea, considering that Samsung smartwatches are the best Android-friendly smartwatches right now, and Wear OS is a stinking hot mess. Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 21, 2023

After months of tinkering and testing, Project Iris, Google’s latest AR innovation, appears to be another “Google Glass Failure.” For years, Google has been toying with the idea of becoming a real competitor in the extended reality market. But for all its innovation and resources, Google’s AR ideas never really seem to pan out.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

Firms such as AWS, Samsung, and HTC VIVE took to the event to showcase the future of work and paradigm-shifting immersive technology. Samsung Enters XR Device Marketplace A massively noteworthy piece of MWC 2024 news was that Samsung officially entered the XR headset marketplace after months of rumours.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 28, 2024

Significant leaks are circulating this week, revealing potential details on Samsung’s elusive XR headset via a GeekBench listing. However, it is safe to say that Samsung is developing its XR wearable as part of its broader mobile hardware ecosystem, ready for its debut sometime in 2024/25.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

This week, reports emerged claiming that Chinese news publication Gyro Technology leaked the design specifications of Samsung’s upcoming MR headset. According to the leaks, Samsung’s MR device will cost roughly between $1000-$2000. Samsung’s Q2 net profits fell by 84.5 percent from last year to $1.4

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Digital Trends

MAY 18, 2021

Google and Samsung are partnering on a revamped Wear OS experience featuring improved app performance, battery health, and a suite of fitness-tracking perks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This week reports from a Korean online publication highlighted how Samsung may release an MR headset in 2024, following a year of rumours, leaks, and partnerships as the leading technology firm works with XR industry giants such as Apple, Google, and Qualcomm to become a fresh horse in the immersive space race.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 16, 2024

The firm plans to debut the Light device in May 2024 and the Super headset in Q4 this year, just as other major vendors like LG and Samsung are looking to enter the headset market. Samsung is also poised to make a splash in the market soon. Many headsets that were previously available to them have now been discontinued.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

New Details on Samsung’s XR Headset Revealed Significant leaks have surfaced this week, providing potential details about Samsung’s upcoming XR headset. It’s apparent that Samsung is working on this XR wearable as part of its broader mobile hardware ecosystem, and it seems likely to debut around 2024 or 2025.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 11, 2024

This week at Unpacked 2024, Samsung announced more details on its elusive yet intriguing XR headset, which the firm first showed off at MWC earlier this year. The timing allows Samsung to quickly get its horse in the race, following the Vision Pro international deployment hype and potential product releases at Meta Connect 2024.

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Digital Trends

MAY 18, 2021

The newly announced Wear platform is a joint effort between Google and Samsung, and it just may have a chance to take on the Apple Watch.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Samsung may finally have some rivalry in the Android-compatible wearables department—though it’s pretty easy at this point as the Galaxy Watch 4 is one of the few smartwatches worth buying. The competition comes from an unlikely brand. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Google and Samsung recently announced they were teaming up to create a new smartwatch platform, but we haven’t seen what those watches will look like—until now. Samsung just previewed the unified Wear OS, with its own unique twist, of course. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 2, 2021

New live images of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic has leaked, just a week out from launch, offering us our first glimpse of Samsung's OneUI watch interface.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 23, 2022

Looks like Google’s making a smartwatch. In incredibly unsurprising news, 9to5Google reported that Google filed a trademark on Tuesday for "Pixel Watch." ” Google has yet to officially announce any kind of smartwatch to add to its product portfolio, but the signs have been there for a while.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

Recently, Google released an update to its Quest 3 YouTube application, which allows users to stream 8K videos to their Meta Quest 3 – at least in theory. While the firm still rules the XR device marketplace with its popular Quest lineup, the space is being shaken by vendors like Apple, LG, and Samsung entering the market.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s just that, on the heels of Samsung giving up on Tizen and partnering with Google for a unified wearable platform, this doesn’t feel like an auspicious time to launch a flagship smartwatch running a proprietary OS. The Huawei Watch 3 is here , and as far as smartwatches go, it looks pretty good on paper. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 20, 2021

Earlier this week, Google announced it was partnering with Samsung to create a unified Wear OS-Tizen platform. It’s a bold move that could up-end the smartwatch landscape, and the next Samsung watches may be the first to offer the new Wear-Tizen mash-up experience. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 12, 2022

Google had all but abandoned its smartwatch platform until Samsung stepped in last year to help build Wear OS 3. Now the company finally seems open to tackling the problems its user have been complaining about for years, starting with support for left-handed users. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 22, 2021

After Google and Samsung announced they were partnering to build a new Wear OS , the biggest unanswered question was whether existing smartwatches would be able to upgrade to the platform. Today, Google clarified which smartwatches would be eligible in a Wear OS support forum —and if you’ve got an older Android watch… Read more.

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