Overview
- Samsung is releasing Galaxy XR today in the United States and South Korea as the inaugural headset running Google's Android XR.
- The hardware features dual 3,552 × 3,840 Micro‑OLED displays (~27.3 million pixels total), Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, 16 GB of RAM, and 256 GB of storage.
- The headset weighs about 545 grams with a separate 302‑gram battery pack rated for roughly 2 hours of general use or 2.5 hours of video, and it is lighter than Apple’s Vision Pro.
- Sensors include high‑resolution passthrough cameras, hand‑ and eye‑tracking, multiple IMUs, depth and flicker sensors, plus iris authentication and 3D photo/video capture; optional 6DoF controllers are priced at $249.99.
- Android XR launches with Google and Samsung apps alongside partners like Adobe, Netflix, MLB and Calm, and development targets OpenXR, WebXR and Unity with PC Link planned for Galaxy Book.