It’s finally here—months after its initial unveiling, Samsung’s new XR headset makes its official debut, and it’s clear that the company has its sights set on Apple’s Vision Pro, which is now in its second iteration. First teased as “Project Moohan,” Galaxy XR comes as a result of a collaboration between Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm, and pretty much acts as a premium showcase of what Google’s new Android XR platform can do.
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Priced starting at $1,799, Samsung says that the Galaxy XR is designed to combine premium hardware with multimodal AI for an immersive user experience, allowing users to interact with both hardware and software elements via gestures, voice, and even vision. The headset comes with dual 4K Micro-OLED displays, which feature a sharp resolution of 29 million pixels, in addition to a 6.3-micron pixel pitch and 120Hz refresh rate support. As for its field of view, Galaxy VR supports 109 degrees horizontal and 100 degrees vertical angles.
In terms of design and aesthetics, Samsung says that it’s designed Galaxy VR with a focus on user comfort. The headset’s overall structure allows it to evenly put subtle pressure on the front and back of a user’s head, which in theory should reduce discomfort during usage. The headset also comes with a light shield which can easily be taken off, and all of this comes in a rather sleek-looking silver colourway which weighs at 545 grams.
As mentioned earlier, Samsung has worked with Qualcomm to power the Galaxy VR’s brains, which come in the form of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip. The XR2+ Gen 2 was revealed way back last year, with Qualcomm promising team-ups with various hardware manufacturers in order to bring the chip to users worldwide, and in this case, Samsung. Going back to the Galaxy VR, the chip is accompanied by 16GB of RAM and 256GB storage, which should be enough memory and storage for most apps and functionality.
Speaking of apps, Android XR gives users a lot of the same software offerings as on “standard” Android devices such as phones and tablets, albeit modified to work in a more immersive manner with more varied navigation via gestures, eyesight, and voice. Samsung has equipped the Galaxy VR with a battery that on paper can last for up to two hours with general use, which is a bit shorter than what Apple offers with its 2025 Vision Pro model. With the separate battery pack though, users can stream videos for up to 2.5 hours—the battery pack itself can easily fit into most pockets and bags.
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The Galaxy XR is available via Samsung’s official website and physical stores, and folks who choose to grab one early also get a special “Explorer Pack” which comes bundled with a year’s subscription of Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium, Google Play Pass, and other exclusive XR software.
