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Samsung’s Android XR ‘Intelligent Eyewear’ reportedly launches in December
Samsung smart glasses in Gentle Monster and Warby Parker styles may finally launch in South Korea and the US before Christmas.
It’s been a very long time coming, but one report from ChoSun Biz says that Samsung and Google are finally launching the Samsung Intelligent Eyewear line in the United States and South Korea in mid-December. Curiously, while the report helps set a fuzzy date, there’s still no official price for Samsung’s smart glasses.
Back in July, Samsung teased the price, noting that the company’s first smart glasses will come in at “a reasonable price” for a product “in the premium range.” Presumably, that means Samsung Intelligent Eyewear won’t be shipping at $299 like Meta’s latest smart glasses. Meta’s most premium offering, Oakley Meta Vanguard, retails for $499.
All of the upcoming Samsung Intelligent Eyewear models feature cameras on the front, although it’s possible Samsung will release camera-free glasses sometime in the future.
Even at a similar price, Samsung hopes its glasses will differentiate themselves from Meta’s offerings by being “an extension of the experience centered on the smartphone, rather than being a post-smartphone device.” Meta has been developing wearable computers for a while now, including VR and lighter XR headsets, often citing that they’re devices for the post-smartphone era. Samsung, instead, sees its glasses as a companion to phones, similar to smartwatches.
Samsung Intelligent Eyewear also has the advantage of having Gemini onboard and running Android XR, the official Google-built operating system for smart glasses and VR headsets. That means it’s sure to tie in with your Android-powered smartphone better than anything else on the market, something we’ve seen from Wear OS smartwatches.
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