{"id":333624,"date":"2026-03-07T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:37:17","slug":"samsung-details-rival-to-metas-ai-smart-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333624\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Details Rival to Meta&#8217;s AI Smart Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve heard a lot about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/tag\/android-xr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android XR<\/a> in recent months, with Samsung having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2025\/11\/05\/i-bought-the-galaxy-xr-and-im-already-sending-it-back\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched the first headset<\/a> a few months ago. Building on that, the company announced at MWC that it is shooting to launch AI-powered smart glasses at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNBC, Samsung\u2019s Jay Kim executive VP of mobile, says that the smart glasses will feature a camera and microphone, similarly to what Google has teased from other 3rd-party XR partners and what we already have on the market from Ray-Ban and Meta. Work is being done in partnership with Google and Qualcomm, which will be necessary as Meta currently dominates with a whopping 82% of the smart glasses global market.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s Kim didn\u2019t specify if the glasses would have a built-in display, but did note that the glasses would need to be tethered to a smartphone, so we presume if users need a display, they\u2019ll need to use their phone or smartwatch. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2025\/04\/17\/watch-google-hosts-ted-talk-and-demos-android-xr-glasses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">demos we have seen of Android XR<\/a>, it\u2019s a platform to essentially bring Gemini\/AI to your eye level and help you interact with the world around you.<\/p>\n<p>2026 will be a big year for Android XR.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/06\/samsung-ai-smart-glasses-first-details-specs-release-date.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve heard a lot about Android XR in recent months, with Samsung having launched the first headset a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-333624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}