Samsung’s Galaxy XR enters the chat

This week, Samsung confirmed off , its Imaginative and prescient Professional-troubling headset, and you’ll wager we’ve completed a deep dive. .

The headset is lighter, extra snug and simpler to stay with than Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional, even when it lacks a lot of its headline options. The software program ecosystem is already fairly broad, due to Google making an actual effort with Android XR, however devoted apps are nonetheless a bit uncommon.

Samsung’s entry into the market would possibly present some much-needed impetus for one of these augmented actuality headset. That it’s half the value of Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional can also loosen some wallets desirous to get into this world.

However it’s exhausting to not see this as Samsung operating down the identical cul-de-sac Apple is now lurking on the finish of. It has allowed different firms, like Meta, to waltz in and seize an early lead within the rather more helpful good glasses market.

— Dan Cooper

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It plans to interchange greater than half one million staff.

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