Samsung's Galaxy S25 launch event might include its long-awaited smart
glasses reveal

Date:
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:08:40 +0000

Description:
The first Samsung Unpacked of 2025 could showcase Galaxy S25 phones and the Samsung smart glasses.

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After months of rumors and leaks, and teases by Samsung itself, the company might finally be ready to showcase its next wearable: its long-awaited smart glasses. And they could be revealed alongside the Samsung Galaxy S25 in early 2025.

Thats according to new details from Korean outlet Yonhap News (translated
from Korean) which says the glasses will be revealed as part of an Unpacked event set to take place in January.

While Samsung has yet to confirm that such an event is taking place other rumors point to a January 23 date (via Android Police ), and this timing
would match up with Samsungs showcase schedule from previous years it
usually kicks the year off with an Unpacked focused on its new flagship phones.

However, alongside its S25 phones, Samsung will reportedly show off its smart glasses, though they wont launch right away. Instead the prototype will give us a taste of whats to come when the full specs are revealed later, with Yonhap News saying theyre expected to actually arrive in the third quarter of 2025 (July / August / September), but given the delays theyve seemingly faced so far we wouldnt be shocked if the launch slipped later into 2025.

As with all rumors we should take these details with a pinch of salt. We've been patiently waiting for an update on Samsungs XR efforts since the company announced that wed hear something before the end of 2024 at its last Unpacked Event, and with less than a month until January 1 2025, Samsung might miss that self-imposed deadline, but hopefully not by a lot. What is Samsung set
to release? The RayBan Meta smart glasses Samsung must compete with (Image credit: Meta)

Samsungs smart glasses have taken several forms based on what leaks have told us. At some point they were seemingly set to be a full-on Samsung XR headset like the Meta Quest 3 or (more appropriately) the Apple Vision Pro .
Following the launch of the Apple headset Samsung reportedly went back to the drawing board , with the idea of it instead developing XR glasses being bandied about.

It was unclear if it was developing alternatives to the Meta Orion AR glasses prototype, or something simpler like the Xreal Air 2 AR glasses , but leaks have more recently solidified around the device being an alternative to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

One leak teases that theyll basically have identical hardware , with
Samsungs glasses having a Qualcomm AR 1 chipset, a 12MP camera sensor and a 155mAh battery capacity, and weighing 50g compared to Metas glasses' 154mAh battery and 48g weight. Neither pair of glasses has a dedicated display.

One key difference is that Samsungs smart glasses would rely on Google Gemini instead of Meta AI for their AI functionality.

This is all rumor and speculation for now of course, and we don't yet know
how the Samsung smart glasses will shape up, or indeed if theyll launch at all. But even at this perhaps less-impressive level compared to what was originally teased, the Samsung specs do sound pretty exciting, and could lead to a shake-up of our best smart glasses rankings. You might also like No, Meta, I wont fake my northern lights photos even though Im gutted that I missed the real thing Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra specs predictions: all the key rumored specs for the top model Meta Orion hands-on: if this is a prototype the finished product is going to be incredible



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