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TL;DR
- Samsung will reportedly procure some shows for its upcoming Mission Moohan headset from Sony.
- Sony additionally produced shows for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- Samsung’s show arm may even develop a few of the headset’s shows, in a bid to chop dependence on Sony.
Samsung and Google are overtly collaborating to create the primary prolonged actuality (XR) headset based mostly on Android. The headset, codenamed Mission Moohan, is anticipated to be unveiled a while in 2025, and Samsung has now taken a significant step in its manufacturing.
Korean outlet The Elec has revealed essential bits about Samsung’s upcoming XR headset, together with plans to supply some shows from Sony. Moreover sourcing the preliminary batch of shows from Sony, Samsung Electronics additionally plans to fee its sister firm, Samsung Show, for extra shows.
Per the report, Samsung will reportedly deploy tiny OLEDoS (OLED on Silicon), aka Micro Si OLED, shows for every eye. In comparison with a conventional OLED, an OLEDoS gives elevated sharpness by extra tightly packing pixels together with a compact structure.
Notably, Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally makes use of OLEDoS shows measuring 1.42 inches in measurement. With its XR headset, Samsung is reportedly utilizing barely smaller 1.3-inch shows per eye, however with the next pixel density.
By counting on two show producers as an alternative of 1, Samsung could not solely avert Sony’s monopoly, but in addition achieve the mandatory experience for supplying XR shows to different producers sooner or later.
Samsung has its ambitions in test
By way of demand, Samsung plans to ship solely round 100,000 items of Mission Moohan in 2025. The conservative strategy dictates warning in direction of the brand new section of merchandise, particularly with even Apple failing to actually appease followers with its $3,000 XR headset.
Samsung’s XR headset is just not anticipated to be low-cost in any regard, which can delay wider adoption. Nonetheless, Samsung is just not reducing again on its sense of luxurious, as our editor C. Scott Brown witnessed at Google I/O 2025.
In the meantime, Samsung’s expertise with producing its personal XR shows might assist it refine different XR headsets within the pipeline, together with units codenamed “Haean” and “Jinju,” which, as per one other report by ET Information, might launch someday subsequent yr. These may additionally be comparatively cheaper than Mission Moohan.
Primarily based on different rumors, the Galaxy XR headset is more likely to be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip and have 16GB of RAM.
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