Samsung announces that it will soon compete with Apple in another product category - PhoneArena

Apple is expected to merchandise its Reality Pro mixed world headset aboriginal this twelvemonth with virtual world (VR) and augmented world (AR) features. According to

SamMobile, during today's Unpacked event, Samsung announced that it besides volition beryllium gathering a Mixed-Reality headset with assistance from partners Google and Qualcomm.

Samsung did hint that the instrumentality volition beryllium arriving soon. Samsung referred to the wearable arsenic an Extended Reality (XR) device.

Virtual Reality immerses the idiosyncratic successful an situation that tin scope from the batter's container astatine Yankee Stadium to a lounge with a elephantine surface that volition amusement streaming content. Augmented Reality takes a unrecorded provender and places computer-generated information connected apical of it. A bully illustration of AR is the "Live View" diagnostic connected Google Maps for those walking. The show shows a unrecorded provender from the rear camera and computer-generated arrows are superimposed implicit the provender to amusement the idiosyncratic which mode to go.

The Samsung XR headset volition usage a specialty Qualcomm chipset and the Korean shaper told The Washington Post that Meta and Microsoft are besides partnering with Samsung to nutrient the XR headset. The Post reported that the caput of the task said that the level and the bundle request to beryllium lone "somewhat acceptable for the instrumentality to beryllium a success." The institution is looking to debar the mistakes made by different firms who entered this abstraction but didn't person the bundle acceptable successful time.

While nary imaginable terms tag was mentioned for Samsung's XR wearable device, Apple's Reality Pro volition reportedly outgo $3,000 and volition beryllium capable to rapidly power betwixt VR and AR. It is believed to beryllium the astir analyzable merchandise that

Apple has ever made.

Samsung has been successful the headset concern earlier

as it introduced the Gear VR headset successful 2015 powered by the Galaxy Note 4's 5.7-inch QHD SuperAMOLED display. After a fewer years, accumulation of the instrumentality came to a halt. Samsung past tried its manus astatine manufacturing a standalone Mixed Reality headset for PCs which besides was discontinued by the company.

Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s SVP successful complaint of Platforms and Ecosystem, said, "An breathtaking abstraction wherever

Google has been investing successful for a agelong clip crossed some experiences and exertion is AR and VR. These technologies are integral to the caller signifier of computing arsenic it tin alteration the mode we interact with radical and accusation to get things done successful the existent world."