{"id":215891,"date":"2025-10-11T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215891\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:48:08","slug":"samsungs-rumored-ray-ban-smart-glasses-killer-may-arrive-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215891\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung’s Rumored Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Killer May Arrive Sooner Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone wants a piece of the smart glasses pie. With Meta plowing full steam ahead, releasing three new pairs of smart glasses<\/a> in one go at its Connect conference this year (including the Ray-Ban Display with a screen<\/a>), other big-name competitors are following suit. Apple, for example, is reportedly attempting to expedite its first pair of smart glasses<\/a> by diverting resources from the Vision Pro<\/a> team. To give you a sense of how urgent that pivot is, Apple is reportedly de-prioritizing the development of a cheaper and lighter version that people might actually, ya know, buy, to pursue said smart glasses.<\/p>\n

Now, it looks like another smartphone titan is being swept up in that push, and the result could be Samsung-made smart glasses on shelves sooner than you think. According to a report from the Financial News<\/a> in South Korea, we could see \u201cProject Haean,\u201d Samsung\u2019s rumored (Google-powered) AR glasses, as soon as early next year. It\u2019s hard to say how much stock to put in that rumor without any official timeline from Samsung, but if you\u2019ll allow me to speculate for a moment, it does feel very possible.<\/p>\n

On top of the palpable push toward smart glasses, there\u2019s also solid evidence that both Google and Samsung are heavily invested in AR. This year at I\/O, Google showed off a preview of its XR glasses, which have a similar featureset as Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban Display. While there was no indication of when those glasses may see the light of day, it\u2019s clear that this isn\u2019t some pie-in-the-sky prototype. Gizmodo\u2019s Senior Editor, Consumer Tech, Raymond Wong, got to try the XR glasses<\/a> a little bit, and while the demo only ran for a grand total of 90 seconds, they were at least real in the sense that Google was letting people try them on.<\/p>\n

\"GizmodoOur time with Google\u2019s XR glasses was brief, but at least we confirmed they exist. \u00a9 Gizmodo <\/p>\n

That\u2019s all to say that new hardware is clearly in the pipeline, and while Samsung hasn\u2019t gone as far as announcing anything official (it certainly hasn\u2019t offered demos in a public setting), we have gotten some strong hints. At the I\/O keynote in May, for example, GM of Android XR, Shahram Izadi said<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re taking our partnership with Samsung to the next level by extending Android XR beyond headsets to glasses. We\u2019re creating the software and reference hardware platform to enable the ecosystem to build great glasses alongside us. Our glasses prototypes are already being used by trusted testers.\u201d Well, well, look at that; Samsung and Google sittin\u2019 in a tree\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a clear yes or no, to be sure, but it\u2019s not, not\u00a0a no either. No matter how this plays out (or when), I\u2019m personally looking forward to Samsung entering the fray. Even more so than Google, Samsung has a chance to make smart glasses that feel truly useful. Given the breadth of its presence in phones and other hardware, it could offer tighter integration between mobile devices and smart glasses than Meta could ever dream of, and that\u2019s huge for delivering a quality smart glasses experience right now, since they still rely on phones for all the big-time computing.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., Samsung might not have the same weight as an Apple-scale ecosystem, but it\u2019s still a huge player and would be the biggest one (sorry, Meta) that smart glasses with a screen have seen yet. Personally, my body (or my face, I guess) is ready for the varied and non-Meta-dominated smart glasses field that many of us have been waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone wants a piece of the smart glasses pie. With Meta plowing full steam ahead, releasing three new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[168,13654,170,8547,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-215891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-meta-ray-bans","10":"tag-samsung","11":"tag-smart-glasses","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}