Samsung and Google plan to launch the XR later this year.

It looks like competition is coming to the Apple Vision Pro. During the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, Samsung announced that it is working with Google on the XR headset. The device will be available “later this year.”

In the newsThere have been rumors about Samsung’s XR headphones for some time now, but it seems like they’re slowly becoming more concrete. Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of platforms and services, spoke about these plans during the Galaxy Unpacked event.

• XR It refers to all types of technology that add an extra digital layer to reality. So it’s kind of a combination of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Another name for it is “mixed reality.”
• This could include replacing reality with virtual reality (VR), which is mainly used in gaming. So you are in a completely different world and no longer see anything from the real world.
• Another possibility is to add some extra stuff to AR. We know this from, for example, Pokemon Go.

Samsung flex magic?

Not much is known about this XR headset from Samsung and Google right now. The two companies are said to be working — along with Qualcomm — on some sort of XR platform. You could then use that with the XR headset, which they want to market together. Osterloh said that device would be available “later this year.”

• According to old rumors, this headset will be called Samsung Flex Magic, although there is no confirmation yet.
• Earlier this year, there were also rumors of a price tag of just $1,000 (€920). If true, it seems that this XR headset will be a major competitor to the Apple Vision Pro headset, which costs more than €4,000.