Overview
- Sales begin today in the United States and South Korea, and Samsung has not announced broader international availability.
- Co-developed with Google and Qualcomm, Galaxy XR debuts the Android XR platform with Play Store access and OpenXR, WebXR and Unity support for apps and games.
- Gemini is embedded at the system level for voice, vision and gesture control with context-aware assistance, though most capabilities run in the cloud and require an internet connection.
- The headset features dual micro‑OLED displays at 3,552 x 3,840 per eye up to 90 Hz, Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage, hand and eye tracking, and iris recognition.
- Battery life is about two hours for general use or 2.5 hours for video via a tethered external pack, the headset weighs 545 g and the pack 302 g, controllers and a travel case are sold separately at $249.99 each, and early buyers get an Explorer Pack with 12 months of Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium and Google Play Pass plus curated XR content.