Samsung And Google Are Developing Ar Glasses Together

Samsung and Google are partnering up to build AR glasses, Samsung’s TM Roh told Bloomberg. But location aren’t galore different specifics beyond nan truth that they’re successful betterment — there’s not moreover a circumstantial merchandise timeline, pinch Roh telling nan publication that Samsung and Google “will effort to scope nan worth and readiness we want arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

The announcement follows Meta’s splashy uncover of Orion, its first augmented reality glasses, past year. Those glasses won’t beryllium sold to consumers, but my workfellow Alex Heath called them an “impressive demo.”

The news of nan Samsung- and Google-made AR glasses too follows nan announcement of nan Project Moohan mixed reality headset. The headset runs Android XR, which Google precocious announced for headsets and smart glasses (and Bloomberg reports that nan AR glasses will “eventually motorboat arsenic information of nan company’s efforts to co-develop nan Android XR operating system”).

My workfellow Victoria Song sewage to effort nan headset and nan level past year, and she described it arsenic a “mix betwixt a Meta Quest 3 and nan Vision Pro”:

I’m walked done pinching to premier items and really to pat nan broadside to bring up nan app launcher. There’s an oculus calibration process that feels awfully akin to nan Vision Pro’s. If I want, I tin retreat into an immersive mode to watch YouTube and Google TV connected a distant mountain. I tin unfastened apps, resize them, and spot them astatine various points astir nan room. I’ve done this each before. This conscionable happens to beryllium Google-flavored. 

At Unpacked, Samsung too revealed specifications astir nan Samsung Galaxy S25 lineup of phones, which includes nan Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra.