VRScout

MARCH 21, 2022

Music metaverse company Ristband is using all the technology at its disposal to revolutionize the live music industry. Individuals lucky enough to get a slot into the show were shuffled into a small theater where everyone was given an older model head-mounted display powered by Samsung mobile devices. Credit: VRScout. Credit: Ristband.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2025

More info Samsung and Google are showing a bit more of Moohan Many people were expecting big XR news from the Samsung Unpacked event, like the announcement of AR glasses, but nothing like this happened. The first one is that Google and Samsung have shown a better integration of Gemini AI also on Samsung phones.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s been rumored that Samsung is working on a smart ring that can be used in tandem with a pair of custom augmented reality (AR) glasses, and based on a recently uncovered trademark filing by Samsung registering the names “Galaxy Ring” and “Galaxy Glasses,” it appears as though the gossip could be true.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The wearables sector is approaching an inflection point. But before going into the AR implications, let’s step back and look at the activity in the broader wearables sector. Wearables sales this year are projected to hit $41 billion, up 28 percent from $32 billion last year. Follow the Money .

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Project virtual screens, fly drones, and dim the lights with ‘Samsung Glasses Lite.’ Referred to in the videos as ‘Samsung Glasses Lite,’ this proof-of-concept represents what a pair of AR glasses made by the company could look like in the years ahead. link] — WalkingCat (@_h0x0d_) February 21, 2021.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Samsung to Reveal AR Glasses Prototype According to the Korean news publication Yonhap News Agency, Samsung is planning to unveil new augmented reality smart glasses in early 2025. The glasses are expected to be showcased during the launch event for the Samsung Galaxy S25, known as Galaxy Unpacked.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

SID Display Week played host to a number of big names in display technology showing off their respective high pixel density VR panels. 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,

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This week, the dedicated team over at patentlyapple discovered a new Samsung patent application highlighting the firm’s continued work towards an upcoming XR headset for the Galaxy ecosystem. AI should be expected in upcoming headsets as the technology merges, but the haptic integration and its end result will be interesting.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Last week saw a number of developments from major XR hardware providers and upcoming participants in the market, waiting to enter the immersive wearable market. While many details remain confidential, this information strongly suggests that Samsung is getting closer to fully unveiling its new XR device.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2022

While most of the current AR headset market is in military and enterprise , technologies developed for these markets have a way of finding their way to consumers. If we’re actually going to call this technology ‘wearable,’ you have to be willing to go out on the street wearing it.”. Lumus is no different.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 4, 2025

Several major firms are taking to the event to showcase the latest in their AR/VR/MR endeavours, with a headline-stealing showcase coming via Samsung’s Moohan exhibition. At MWC 2025, Samsung showcased many products, from its mobile AI suite to new smartphones. The hardware design reflects Samsungs ecosystem-first approach.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2025

Recently, Samsung’s dive into the XR headset market has been stealing headlines. Samsung is on a mission, and the timing of Samsung’s AI-powered AR device comes at an interesting time. Samsung is on a mission, and the timing of Samsung’s AI-powered AR device comes at an interesting time.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Recently, technology leader Bosch entered the XR marketplace; by re-invigorating the development of its AR wearables hardware. Via its Sensortec division, the firm is announcing Light Drive, an AR wearable solution to support smart glasses’ long-term or “all-day” wearability.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This week, a curious hire opportunity appeared over at Samsung, just in time for its concurrent augmented reality/mixed reality headset push. Specifically, the role is filling an XR Director gap at Samsung Research America as part of the division’s MPS (Mobile Platform Services), SRA, and Immersive Experiences (IMEX) Team.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As mentioned above, theyll feature the new Android XR operating system which will also be responsible for powering Samsungs XR headset (Project Moohan), set to be released next year. Its an open-source solution intended to give countless partners (including Samsung) access to innovative AI and AR development tools.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has revealed its best-selling products for the holiday season, and Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR has come out on top for our budding new industry. Gear VR makes it in as the third entry in the Wearable Technology category.

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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 - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2025

While several AR wearables captured attention at the event, Cellid’s approach to lightweight, unobtrusive AR is a refreshing take on a crowded industry. The company has achieved this through their world’s largest viewing angle glass waveguide technology and full-color plastic waveguides: both on display at MWC. Cellid Inc.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2025

Today, I want to discuss one of the XR technologies that has been getting more hype lately: smartglasses. I want to start my analysis with what I’ve seen at CES and then go beyond that and discuss what I envision for the future of this technology. There were so many smartglasses and technologies related to smartglasses (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With Android XR, Google wants to power a broad range of proprietary and third-party experiences, spanning all the way from the upcoming Samsung XR headset , to smart glasses, and extended reality applications infused with artificial intelligence. Instead, the company is laying the foundations for a huge XR portfolio.

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2022

The full round includes a number of strategic investors including Samsung Electronics, Diamond Edge Ventures (the strategic investment arm of Mitsubishi Chemical), and others. To that end, the company claims the first products based on its waveguide technology will hit the market within the next year. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Like Samsung, Huawei offers a staggering variety of smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables, and smart home accessories; the company surpassed Ericsson in 2012 as the world’s largest telecom equipment manufacturer, and earlier this summer overtook Apple to become the world’s second largest smartphone maker.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 14, 2020

Yesterday, Samsung Electronics had announced a new 3D IC packaging technology called eXtended-Cube, or “X-Cube”, allowing chip-stacking of SRAM dies on top of a base logic die through TSVs. Samsung has built a 7nm EUV test chip using this methodology by integrating an SRAM die on top of a logic die.

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Slashgear

APRIL 29, 2022

We've seen some weird wearables throughout the years, but some are stranger than others. Here's the story of Samsung's truly bizarre smart belt.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

A high-profile researcher at Samsung has published new report on augmented reality (AR) wearables, the company announced on Monday. The report reads, “For vivid tactile sensation, there is a growing interest in wearable haptic gloves designed for high wearability, lightweight, compliance, and small form factor.

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metamandrill

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Samsung XR headset news has been catching the attention of everyone interested in immersive technologies. After all, it's set to launch a new era for Samsung's wearable technologies. The headset is a collaborative venture between Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google. Samsung's new headset is currently known [.]

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Today, as more companies enter the VR headset game and input devices continue to see rapid technological advancement, there are now more ways than ever to get your hands into VR. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

XR is still in the early days and this year nothing mindblowing is going to happen: the major event will be the launch of Android XR headsets, but the Samsung device is too expensive to compete with Meta. Youve read in this newsletter how it is hard for XR developers to survive in the current moment of the technology.

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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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ARPost

JANUARY 18, 2023

DigiLens is calling ARGO “the future of wearable computing” and “the first purpose-built stand-alone AR/XR device designed for enterprise and industrial-lite workers.” Naturally, ARGO is built around DigiLens crystal waveguide technology resulting in an outdoor-bright display with minimal eye glow and a compact footprint.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2024

Interestingly, Microsoft is ordering the OLED panels from Samsung Display, a sub-division of Samsung, which aims to debut its own XR headset later this year or early next. This week, Korean news outlets reported that Microsoft is attempting to purchase OLED display panels for an unreleased MR headset/device.

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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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