The launch of Samsung Electronics’ recent prolonged reality (XR) headset has been officially announced. It’s predicted that the brand new device may have AI and agent functions based on ‘Gemini 2.0’ announced by Google the day before, which will probably be the differentiating and core functions. Samsung can also be expected to provide smart glasses equipped with ‘Project Astra,’ the substitute intelligence (AI) assistant that Google unveiled the day before.
Google announced on the twelfth (local time) that it will launch a platform called ‘Android XR’ through partnerships with Samsung and Qualcomm. This can be a recent operating system designed for next-generation computing, developed in collaboration with Samsung, and is a platform for AI, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) headsets and glasses.
He then said that the primary device developed by Samsung, codenamed ‘Project Moohan’, will probably be released next 12 months. In relation to this, there have been reports last month that Samsung would produce 500,000 recent XR devices within the third quarter of next 12 months. On the time, it was often known as smart glasses, but this announcement revealed that it will even be making headsets.
Google said that this headset allows users to freely move between the virtual world and the true world. In other words, it means you could use the see-through function like Apple’s ‘Vision Pro’ to go between the skin world and the virtual world.
Nevertheless, it revealed its intention to distinguish itself from Vision Pro by introducing AI functions.
Google said, “By talking to the AI assistant Gemini, you may get details about what you might be currently viewing or control the device. Through Gemini, it could discover the user’s intention and help with tasks comparable to planning, information retrieval, and task guidance. “I’ll give it to you,” he said. Because of this it would be equipped with the AI agent ‘Project Astra’ that was released yesterday.
In this manner, it was explained that Samsung’s headset goes beyond easy AR and VR functions.
First, you should use the headset to enjoy YouTube and Google TV on a virtual large screen, view Google Photos in 3D, and explore town as if in point of fact through the immersive view of Google Maps. This is comparable to Vision Pro.
Here, it was explained that multitasking may be easily handled using the virtual screen of the Chrome browser. You may also use the AI function ‘Circle to Search’ to instantly find details about what you see in front of you.
In other words, the intention is to surpass the capabilities of Vision Pro by introducing AI and agent functions. In fact, because it is Android-based, you should use existing mobile and tablet apps from Google Play. It also announced that a greater variety of apps, games, and immersive content specialized for XR will probably be released next 12 months.
Android XR can even support smart glasses in the long run. “You’re expected to have the opportunity to seek out quite a lot of glasses which are stylish and comfy enough that you’ll want to wear them each day, and that work seamlessly with other Android devices.”
As announced the day before, we are going to soon begin testing prototype glasses running Android XR with a small group of users.
In today’s announcement, Google did circuitously mention that Samsung was developing smart glasses. Nevertheless, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced last September, “We’re developing MR glasses with Samsung Electronics and Google.”
Subsequently, Samsung is anticipated to release XR headsets and AI glasses based on Android XR and equipped with AI and agents next 12 months.
Release date, price, specifications, etc. weren’t mentioned. Within the case of the headset, seeing through is mentioned, so it doesn’t look like a low-priced model. Smart glasses also look like at an analogous level to Meta Ray-Ban.
Google repeatedly emphasized that Android XR is “the primary OS built from the bottom up with Gemini” and that “it would be a brand new interactive interface to regulate the OS and apps.”
Subsequently, Samsung’s recent devices may be seen as specializing in AI to distinguish themselves from Apple. In fact, Apple can also be known to be planning to put in a whole lot of Apple intelligence within the Vision Pro successor model to be released next 12 months.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
