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I continue to bang the drum on this idea that smartglasses are a product category not of several years from now, but of right now. Or, the next year. Samsung apparently plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks. Quoting 9to5Google:

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. ENDQUOTE

The expectation is that we could at least get a tease of these before any full launch, much like Samsung did with the Galaxy Ring. Mark your calendars, there’s a Galaxy S25 launch event expected in January.