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MARCH 25, 2025

A display model was present at Vivo’s booth at Boao Forum for Asia however, revealing the company is taking more than a few design cues from Apple Vision Pro, including its unique headstrap design, digital crown button, and magnetically-tethered external battery.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Moohan Draws Eyes at MWC 2025 At MWC 2025, Samsung unveiled a range of products, from its mobile AI suite to new smartphones. This device results from a collaboration between Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google, where Qualcomm provides the chipset foundation, and Google deploys its widely discussed AndroidXR framework for the upcoming headset.

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JULY 14, 2019

According to a recently published patent application filed by Samsung, the company may be developing a foldable AR headset featuring a built-in display that automatically activates when the device is unfolded. The post Samsung Files Patent Application For Foldable AR Glasses appeared first on VRScout.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Cas & Chary Present. On my Samsung S10, I got about two hours max before my battery drained to 30%. The post Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with Nreal Light, One of the First Consumer-available AR Glasses appeared first on Road to VR. Image courtesy Cas & Chary VR. Of course, this depends on your phone.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2024, Meta made its commitment clear by highlighting its related success via its EssilorLuxottica partnership , and on the other hand, Samsung spent the year teasing audiences with an XR device to rival Meta’s and others, while the device is still yet to hit the market, Samsung appears ready to debut the product in 2025.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Top news of the week. News from partners (and friends).

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Yesterday, during Samsung’s Upacked event, the technology giant gave a short but sweet insight into the future of its elusive but attention-grabbing Moohan headset. Samsung revealed the information on the device alongside its broader ecosystem updates, putting into perspective the value of a firm like Samsung in the XR space.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

While Samsung is said to be the first to launch an Android XR headset, Sony, Lynx, and XREAL are also planning to use the operating system. Meta announced earlier this year that it intends to open its Quest’s Horizon OS operating system to third-parties , but now Android XR presents another choice for headset makers.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Samsung confirms 5+ million Gear VR headsets are now in use worldwide, announced at their CES 2017 keynote. In his opening speech at CES 2017 this week, Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company now has “more than 5 million” Gear VR virtual reality headsets in use.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Samsung Odyssey, the company’s first PC VR headset, is available starting today in several countries, sold via Samsung and Microsoft stores. Samsung Odyssey Specs and Minimum Requirements. Image courtesy Samsung. Image courtesy Samsung. Our Thoughts on the Samsung Odyssey VR Headset.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

.” This wouldn’t be the first time Meta developed its own theater environment.In

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Samsung has partnered with EarthX to debut a dozen immersive short films on the Samsung XR video platform from environmentally-focused filmmakers. Samsung XR is Samsung’s immersive video platform, and home to more than 10,000 videos. Image courtesy Samsung, EarthXR. The Hydrous Presents: IMMERSE.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Originally released back in 2017 on Google Daydream, Samsung GearVR, Oculus Go, and SteamVR headsets— Mondly VR features support for over two dozen languages, including but now limited to Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Samsung today launched ‘Pilot Season’, a new initiative aimed at putting original episodic VR video content into the Samsung VR Video service. Filmmakers taking part in Pilot Season were given the use of a Samsung 360 Round camera , the company’s professional 3D 360-degree camera. image courtesy Samsung.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

New Samsung Headset Details Revealed Patentlyapple has revealed a new patent application from Samsung, which highlights the company’s ongoing development of an upcoming XR headset for the Galaxy ecosystem. Additionally, reports suggest that Samsung aims to debut the headset in 2025, as an outlook header indicates.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation—which runs theme park properties across the americas—and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Six Flags is proud to be partnering with Samsung to develop the newest, most innovative thrill ride experience in the theme park industry,” said Brett Petit, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, much like the many historic leaks from Apple and Samsung regarding each firms XR device, a savvy insider reveals Valves following headset details ahead of official announcements. However, following a much-hyped release at the height of Meta Quest 2 adoption, Valve has remained quiet on a follow-up device.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Hands-On With Samsungs Android XR Headset, Shipping In 2025 Samsungs Android XR headset is launching in 2025, and we went hands on. UploadVR Ian Hamilton If you missed the news, Samsung finally revealed its standalone headset today, and Google revealed the Android XR platform that it will run.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Lorraine Underwood, author of the book Save the World with Code and one of the hosts of the YouTube series Element 14 Presents , points out how during a video call with multiple people you sometimes can’t tell who is looking at who. She was able to view the real world through her VR headset.

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MAY 29, 2017

At last week’s Display Week 2017 conference, Samsung showed off a new ultra-high resolution display for VR headsets that more than triples the pixel count of the displays in the Oculus Rift and Vive. A new display from Samsung targeting use in VR headsets packs a whopping 2,024 x 2,200 pixels into a 3.5″

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Notably, Google is developing the XR OS alongside Samsung; during the announcement, Samsung also highlighted how it is poised to release a headset in 2025. Samsung Unveils Its Headset Part of the Andriod XR announcement includes the first look at Samsungs headset.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense? I guess we’ll find out soon.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

While Santa’s Little Helpers pack the sleigh full of presents, a nice elf buckles you into the sleigh’s sidecar, readying you for one epic ride we all wish we could have taken growing up as kids. Created in collaboration with Samsung and Here Be Dragons, you strap on a Gear VR headset and take a sleigh ride atop pneumatic seats.

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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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MARCH 18, 2025

More info The Samsung headset should have motion controllers According to a report by SamMobile, Samsung will be making its own first-party handsets for its upcoming Project Moohan headset. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did.

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MAY 30, 2018

Most Gear VR-compatible smartphones work with Venues, excluding Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 5. August 3 // Lionsgate Presents: Reservoir Dogs // 7:00 pm PT. August 5 // Lionsgate Presents: Sinister // 7:00 pm PT. August 19 // Lionsgate Presents: Apocalypse Now // 7:00 pm PT.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Today at MWC 2024, Samsung unveiled an upcoming XR headset the firm created alongside partners Google and Qualcomm, with a scheduled release window coming in 2025. At the event, Samsung unveiled several innovative tech products, including the immersive device, a smart ring, and an assistive mobility robotics device.

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AUGUST 22, 2021

This week as part of the annual Hot Chips semiconductor conference, Samsung’s memory division has presented a poster/slides on a project it is currently working on with impressive end-point results. The company details a 512 GB module of DDR5 memory, running at DDR5-7200, designed for server and enterprise use.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Samsung today announced its latest and greatest flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G. The latest version of the headset (SM-R324NZAAXAR), which supports an impressive 14 different Samsung smartphone models, now also supports the four new members of the Galaxy family. Image courtesy Samsung.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Doing so could lead to a rather compact headset, though the presentation doesn’t offer a clear sense of the headset’s fundamental size, nor what kind of optics are used. Although Sony is in the display business, the original PSVR actually used a Samsung-made OLED display. Image courtesy Sony.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D has secured a $13 million Series A funding round, which was led by Wise and Teleport co-founders Taavet+Sten, and features participation from GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, Samsung Next, NordicNinja, Konvoy Ventures, and others. The news was first reported by Venture Beat. Image courtesy Wolf3D.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

During our friendly fireside chat on the stage of the event, where we talked about the future of immersive realities and the Chinese technological ecosystem, I asked The Prez to comment on the present of HTC and to give us a sneak peek of the future. I personally also hope for new devices from Pico, Samsung, and other vendors next year.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. Additionally, the game presents daily procedural missions in an effort to bring players back regularly.

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JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. Image courtesy Nielsen. Image courtesy Nielsen. Image courtesy Nielsen.

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MAY 15, 2024

Some of the examples seen in the video below include cultural and historical stuff, but also virtual billboards for private businesses, presenting something of a low poly Blade Runner vibe. Most of all, we’re still waiting to hear about the Samsung+Google partnership that might bring a Vision Pro competitor from Samsung.

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MAY 11, 2018

Currently the market leaders in pixel density are Samsung Odyssey and HTC Vive Pro, both with the same Samsung-built panel at ~615 ppi. Both JDI and Google are presenting high-pixel-density displays at SID Display Week, with Google showing their 1443ppi OLED on-glass display there as well.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Gear VR + Samsung Gear 360. If you buy the latest Gear VR + Controller ($130) and Samsung Gear 360 Camera ($200), you can have both for only $200. Verizon, Sprint and unlocked handsets are all present, but you’ll have to paw through the various options to figure out which one is right for you. image courtesy Best Buy.

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