The first product<\/a> from this partnership was the Galaxy XR headset which went on sale last year<\/a> and was based on Google’s Android “XR” \u2014 an umbrella term for VR and mixed and augmented reality \u2014 operating system. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC in 2024<\/a> that smart glasses were the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n Companies see smart glasses as potentially having a larger appeal than other XR products because they are smaller and glasses are already so widely worn. <\/p>\n “I think the\u00a0XR\u00a0on\u00a0headset\u00a0will sort of be around. But not as a sort of mass scale business,” Kim said.<\/p>\n “Everybody talks about\u00a0what’s\u00a0the next\u00a0AI device is, and I know\u00a0I’ve\u00a0been looking at many different types of devices. Glasses, obviously is one of them and\u00a0everybody’s\u00a0looking at it.”<\/p>\n The development of more advanced AI applications like Google Gemini or ChatGPT has fueled the push towards smart glasses.<\/p>\n Device makers are figuring out how users might interact with these services beyond typing in an app on a separate device, such as by speaking to an AI assistant in the glasses and the glasses’ camera being a mode of input for AI.<\/p>\n Kim added that the “important thing” was for AI to understand “where you’re looking at” so it can “feed the information to the mobile phone and then it processes and actually gives you a lot of information.”<\/p>\n Kim declined to say whether the glasses will have a built-in display when asked but said that Samsung has other products like the smartwatch or phone if a user needs a display.<\/p>\n Kim said Samsung’s target is “to have something for industry this year.” <\/p>\n Qualcomm’s Amon told CNBC earlier this week that the smart glasses will be released this year.<\/p>\n Amon also laid out why he was “bullish” on smart glasses, saying they were “close to our eyes, close to our ears, close to our mouth, we’re going to have those agentic experiences and workloads.”<\/p>\n “Agentic” refers to AI applications that can carry out tasks on users’ behalf autonomously. Device makers have talked up a world where users may be able to ask their AI agents to call a cab or book a hotel. <\/p>\n The things users once did on their phones and laptops will shift to other devices like smart glasses, Amon said.<\/p>\n He likened the current state of smart glasses to the early days of smartphones when there were far fewer apps available.<\/p>\n “But then you go to 200 apps, 1,000 apps, and that’s how we’re going to see those glasses getting better over time as new agents get developed,” Amon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Samsung exhibition stand features the prominent ”A new era of mobile agentic AI” slogan by the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,357,161031,146,85,123,46,10809,10388,12658,33176,11773,4758,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-325225","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-business-news","12":"tag-cristiano-amon","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-internet","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","18":"tag-micron-technology-inc","19":"tag-mobile-phones","20":"tag-qualcomm-inc","21":"tag-samsung-electronics-co-ltd","22":"tag-smartphones","23":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Qualcomm](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/108272883-17725570131772557010-44330297202-1080pnbcnews.jpg\")
<\/p>\n