Smart glasses aren’t a new idea, but as the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses show, they’re now at a stage where they work well and don’t look terrible. As the tech improves and gets cheaper, more models are likely to show up—including, in the near future, a pair from Samsung.
These Samsung smart glasses haven’t been unveiled yet, but those in the know are suggesting they could make their debut in 2025. Here’s everything that’s been confirmed and rumored about the wearable so far.
What Samsung has said
Samsung itself hasn’t said smart specs are on the way, but the company has gone on record to say it’s working on XR products: That’s Extended Reality, which encompasses the digital worlds of virtual reality (VR), the hybrid of digital and real that is augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), which is VR and AR combined.
Head all the way back to Samsung’s Unpacked February 2023 event, and you’ll see that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm announced they were teaming up on some kind of XR hardware—though there wasn’t much in the way of details at that point. Between then and now, there hasn’t been much more information to go on, either, until quite recently.
Meta has shown off the Orion smart specs—but they’re only prototypes for now.
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At the Unpacked July 2024 show, we heard that an XR platform was in the works, and in September, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon went on the record to say Samsung smart glasses are absolutely on the agenda. They’ll apparently be linked to a smartphone, and offer “whole new experiences”—powered in part by AI, of course. Amon said the specs would be different to the Apple Vision Pro, but similar to the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses.
And that’s just about everything that’s official so far—so we know the Samsung smart glasses are on the way, but not much more beyond that. We’re still waiting on a release date, specs list, and any kind of pricing information (for comparison, the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses start at $300).
What the rumors say
While there’s little in the way of official news, there are all kinds of rumors and speculation: One South Korean media outlet has reported the Samsung smart specs will break cover in January, alongside the Samsung Galaxy S25 phones, at least in prototype form. The expectation is that the glasses will then go on sale in the third quarter of 2025 (which would be in July, August, or September).
Based on insider info, the smart glasses will weigh in at 50 grams and come with support for gesture control, contactless payments, and AI-powered facial recognition—though it’s not clear exactly what that would involve. An earlier report from the Korean media drew a comparison with the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and mentioned a Qualcomm AR1 processor and a 12MP camera with a Sony image sensor.
Xreal has also beaten Samsung to launching smart glasses.
Credit: Xreal
Head all the way back to 2023 again, when Samsung trademarked the name Samsung Glasses. This gives us a strong hint about the name—though it’s strange there’s no “Galaxy” in there, as there is with the Samsung Galaxy Ring. A patent filed this year, meanwhile, points to “AR glasses and/or a head-mounted device” that can navigate through physical spaces and throw up information in front of the user’s eyes.
So there you have it: Qualcomm and Samsung say smart glasses are on the way, and the rumor is we could see them as soon as next month, though they probably won’t go on sale for a while. Other details are thin on the ground right now, but existing AR glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and the new Xreal One Pro give us some ideas about what might be coming from Samsung.
