- Samsung is holding a digital occasion on October 21 to announce an Android XR machine
- Patrons who reserve one now can get $100 credit score for different Samsung gear
- Samsung, with Qualcomm and Google, has been teasing Venture Moohan for months
Samsung has introduced that it will likely be unveiling its new XR headset operating Android XR. The brand new machine and potential Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor, at present known as Venture Moohan, might be revealed on October 21 at 10pm EDT (or 11am Wednesday in Samsung’s residence city Korean time) at an occasion titled Worlds Extensive Open.
We don’t know a lot in regards to the machine or Samsung’s launch plans, but when your curiosity is already piqued, you possibly can register to purchase the headset now and get a small bonus to your religion – all for free of charge to you.
Samsung has been teasing Venture Moohan for fairly some time, and the machine made a cameo look final month on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit… underneath glass, and we used one at Google I/O. The brand new headset will presumably use Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon XR2 chipset, however many questions stay about its specs and capabilities.
Hopefully, these questions will all be answered in a single week, as a result of Samsung is able to begin taking cash for this headset. In case you reserve a Moohan – and that most likely received’t be the headset’s remaining title – Samsung provides you with a $100 credit score in direction of different Samsung gear, after you full your buy.
What we learn about Venture Moohan: not a lot!
That tells us just a few issues. First, actual merchandise might be in hand quickly. Samsung most likely wouldn’t supply a pre-launch bonus for a product that received’t be accessible till subsequent yr. Will the brand new headset be accessible on October 21? I hope so, but when it’s not, I’d anticipate it to be in hand for the vacation buying season.
Second, we’ve a barely higher thought of what Venture Moohan may cost, or what it received’t price. That’s, it received’t be low-cost. Samsung wouldn’t give a $100 bonus for a headset that prices $500 and competes with Meta Quest 3. That is going to be a dearer – and hopefully extra succesful – XR headset.
The outcomes of Venture Moohan can even launch Android XR, Google’s new platform for XR software program growth. We don’t know a lot in regards to the apps and options that may launch with Android XR, however we are able to assume Samsung would be the first of many machine companions for Android XR, identical to Android.
After we say XR, we often imply a mixture of digital actuality and augmented actuality. The latter entails utilizing cameras to put digital objects so they seem in your real-world house. In fact, good glasses are thought-about a holy grail for XR {hardware} developments.
We haven’t seen good glasses among the many Venture Moohan information and hints, nevertheless it’s potential we may study extra, and even see the primary Samsung good glasses, subsequent week.
The Worlds Extensive Open occasion is digital, so you possibly can watch on Samsung’s YouTube channel, nevertheless it received’t be occurring stay. We’ll attempt to get our palms on the brand new Venture Moohan Android XR headset as quickly as we all know what to name it, if not sooner, so test again subsequent week to see if we all know something extra.
