Samsung takes on Apple’s Vision Pro with new Galaxy XR headset

After months of speculation, Samsung has yet unveiled its Galaxy XR headset to instrumentality connected Apple’s Vision Pro. The headset runs connected Google’s Android XR operating strategy and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform.

Galaxy XR costs $1,800, astir fractional the terms of the Vision Pro. It’s disposable present successful the U.S. and Korea. The headset offers up to 2 hours of wide usage and up to 2 and a fractional hours of video playback.

The headset’s micro OLED show has 27 cardinal pixels, six cardinal much than the Vision Pro, and a solution of 3,552 x 3,840. It has a 90Hz refresh rate, compared to the Vision Pro’s 120Hz. Galaxy XR features 2 high-resolution pass-through cameras, six world-facing tracking cameras, and 4 eye-tracking cameras.

The headset weighs 545g, portion the latest Apple Vision Pro weighs astir 750g-800g.

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“Through a operation of its shape, precocious materials and the structural optimization of each component, Galaxy XR achieves an optimal equilibrium betwixt lightweight plan and robustness for regular use,” Samsung wrote successful a blog post. “The headset’s ergonomically balanced framework distributes unit crossed the forehead and the backmost of the head, minimizing facial discomfort portion providing dependable support.”

Samsung says the headset features galore experiences optimized for XR, specified arsenic Google Maps, YouTube, Circle to Search, and Google Photos.

Users tin inquire Gemini to navigate to places connected Google Maps portion exploring the satellite successful immersive 3D Maps. On YouTube, users tin inquire Gemini to find contented they privation to spot and larn much astir the video they’re watching. Users tin besides person 2D images into 3D successful Photos.

In pass-through mode, users tin spot the carnal satellite astir them and gully a ellipse with their manus to hunt for accusation astir thing successful beforehand of them.

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With the headset, users tin multitask by having aggregate apps unfastened astatine immoderate size, specified arsenic their browser, documents, and euphony app.

As for entertainment, users tin watercourse contented connected a 4K Micro-OLED screen. Streaming services, including Crunchyroll, HBO Max, and Peacock, person reworked their apps for Android XR.

People who acquisition the Galaxy XR by the extremity of the twelvemonth volition get an Explorer Pack that comes with 12 months of Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium, and Google Play Pass. It besides comes with a $1 per period proceedings of YouTube TV for 3 months, entree to the 2025-2026 play of NBA League Pass, and entree to Status Pro’s NFL PRO ERA, Project Pulsar from Adobe, Asteroid, and Calm.

The determination comes arsenic Apple past week unveiled the latest mentation of its Vision Pro headset that’s powered by an M5 chip, replacing the existent M2. The M5 spot enhances show rendering by 10%, and supports refresh rates up to 120Hz (up from 100Hz). The headset besides features 30 much minutes of artillery beingness implicit the erstwhile model, coming successful astatine 2 and a fractional hours of wide usage and 3 hours of video playback.