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Report: Samsung XR glasses have Ray-Ban Meta specs with more features, seemingly no display

Ben Schoon | Nov 15 2024 - 3:15 pm PT

According to a new report, Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses that are being developed in collaboration with Google won’t arrive until the second half of 2025, but they’ll share some specs with the popular Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Research coming out of China from Wellsen XR reveals a few new details regarding Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses. The report, highlighted by @Jukanlosreve and Maeil Business Newspaper, reveals that Samsung is planning an initial production run of these smart glasses that would include 500,000 units, and that they’d be released in Q3 2025. That’s later than expected, but in line with what Samsung teased in October.

The glasses will apparently be powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset, the same chip that’s used in Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses – the generation being used is not mentioned, but Qualcomm had already released AR2 in 2022.

That’s not the only spec the two devices share, as the report also claims Samsung’s glasses will have a 12MP camera and a 155 mAh battery, the same (give or take 1 mAh) as Ray-Ban’s glasses. In terms of weight, the glasses would weigh 50g, ever-so-slightly more than Ray-Ban Meta.

One of the big questions around Samsung’s XR glasses has been whether or not they’d have a display, and it seems this won’t be the case based on this report. To match the weight and battery size of Ray-Ban Meta while adding a display would be… impressive, to say the least. With this report revealing hardware specs, skipping all mention of a display strongly suggests this product simply won’t be including one.

However, we do get some indication of what these glasses will be capable of. Gemini would handle AI tasks alongside support for “payment,” QR code recognition, “gesture recognition,” and “human recognition functions.” It’s not entirely clear what all of these features will do, but it suggests a product that’s a bit more capable than Meta’s offering. Meta uses AI on its glasses to leverage the camera for multimodal analysis and answers (and scan QR codes), set reminders, and Meta has teased translation features.

We’ll have quite a while to wait for these glasses to debut if the Q3 2025 date turns out to be true, but it seems possible Samsung would tease the product well ahead of that launch as it did with the Galaxy Ring earlier this year. A tease at Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch in January isn’t out of the question.