Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: It’s like a cheaper Apple Vision Pro and launches today

[ad_1] Watching the primary jiffy of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset, I feel Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional is perhaps cooked.

It’s not as a result of the Galaxy XR — which Samsung previously teased as Challenge Moohan — is that significantly better than the Imaginative and prescient Professional. It’s that the expertise is comparable, however you get a lot extra bang on your buck. Particularly, Galaxy XR prices $1,799 in comparison with the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s astronomical $3,499. The headset launches within the US and Korea at the moment, and to lure in additional prospects, Samsung and Google are providing an “explorer pack” with every headset that features a free 12 months of Google AI Professional, Google Play Go, and YouTube Premium, YouTube TV for $1 a month for 3 months, and a free season of NBA League Go.

Did I point out it’s additionally considerably lighter and extra snug than the Imaginative and prescient Professional?

Oh, and it comes with a local Netflix app. Who's going to get a Imaginative and prescient Professional now? Properly, most likely people who want Mac energy for work and are actually embedded in Apple’s ecosystem. However plenty of different persons are most likely going to need this as a substitute.

These had been the ideas working by my head whereas I bought my second official demo of Samsung’s headset forward of at the moment’s announcement. I’d gotten a demo of a Moohan prototype final December, however this was the ultimate iteration of that product. There are a number of notable adjustments. The entrance piece is extra cushioned than I remembered from my final demo, and I lastly bought to strive the detachable backside gentle seal. However in any other case, not a lot has modified.

The {hardware} nonetheless appears like a Imaginative and prescient Professional combined with a Meta Quest 3. There aren’t creepy eyes on the entrance display, although there's nonetheless a glass panel that homes a number of cameras to seize your environment and hand gestures. There are micro-OLEDs inside that assist 4K decision and as much as 90Hz refresh charges, which ought to make scrolling and video games look easy. Samsung guarantees as much as 2.5 hours of battery life, proper on a par with the Imaginative and prescient Professional.

<img alt="Galaxy XR headset" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="x271pn0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 1023px) 50vw, 700px" srcset="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=256 256w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=376 376w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=384 384w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=415 415w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=480 480w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=540 540w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=640 640w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=750 750w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=828 828w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1080 1080w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1200 1200w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1440 1440w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1920 1920w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2048 2048w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2400"/> It positive appears like a Imaginative and prescient Professional. Picture: Owen Grove, The Verge

There’s no detachable strap — it’s all a light-weight plastic with a cushioned again piece and a dial that you just use to regulate tightness. The supplies don’t really feel as premium because the Imaginative and prescient Professional. However plastic is less complicated to scrub than material, and once I slip it onto my head, it’s considerably lighter, and the load is distributed extra evenly. (The primary Imaginative and prescient Professional was extraordinarily front-heavy, however a brand new strap helps quite a bit with that.) It took till the tip of the 30-minute demo for me to start out feeling some rigidity.

A lot of the expertise contained in the headset is much like the Imaginative and prescient Professional that I can think about Apple’s attorneys bristling. There’s a high-resolution passthrough, although I wouldn’t name it crystal clear. The headset tracks what you’re , and also you pinch your fingers to pick. One distinction is that there’s a Quest-like cursor while you level at menus and XR components, making it a smidge simpler to inform if the proper factor is highlighted. In any other case, the interface is a Google-flavored model of what you’ll discover in a Imaginative and prescient Professional.

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Characteristic-wise, there’s every little thing from spatial pictures and immersive environments to blowing up a number of browser home windows for optimum productiveness. There’s additionally automated spatialization for current 2D content material. As in, once I go to YouTube to observe a current Vergecast episode, a 3D model of my colleague David Pierce leaps ahead from the video.

Google and Samsung are eager to level out that this Android XR headset has Gemini. In reality, at a small keynote speech for the press, executives from each corporations emphasised that this gadget has “AI on the core.”

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That signifies that if, for some cockamamie motive, you determine to learn a bodily journal with this headset on, you'll be able to Circle to Search any attention-grabbing merchandise you occur upon and look at them in digital Chrome. When viewing an immersive 3D map within the Google Maps app, you'll be able to ask Gemini questions on your environment. For those who’re viewing a photograph or YouTube video, you can begin a Gemini Stay session, share your display with the AI, and ask it questions. Whereas a photograph of a fuzzy quadruped at Machu Picchu, Gemini instructed me that I used to be, in truth, a llama and never an alpaca. It then proceeded to inform me llama information. In the midst of watching a 3D YouTube video of an Icelandic volcano erupting. Gemini mistakenly recognized it as a volcano in Hawaii. So, you already know, there are limitations.

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I’m not satisfied that the common individual will ever need these costly, high-tech XR headsets. You can argue Galaxy XR can also be useless on arrival, particularly because the zeitgeist appears to be shifting closely towards sensible glasses. However for individuals who do need headsets? On paper, the Galaxy XR headset is the significantly better worth. You’re getting an identical consumption expertise. It’s practically half the value. (Heck, it prices lower than a Z Fold 7!) It’s a lot simpler to put on for an extended time period.

There’s a large swath of content material, and also you get entry to Google apps like YouTube and Maps, amongst others. For those who assume AI is a promoting level, Gemini is built-in into this headset much more successfully than Siri is within the Imaginative and prescient Professional. And, in comparison with devices like telephones, tablets, and computer systems, these headsets are a lot simpler to make use of as standalone gadgets. However the most well-liked use case we’ve seen to date for these headsets is utilizing them as your individual private theater. The Galaxy XR could lack a number of the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s premium polish — and what quantities to the ability of a full-fledged Mac — however, immersive content-wise, it’s ok.

Plus, if you wish to use it for productiveness, you'll be able to solid a Samsung Galaxy E book laptop computer display to the headset (although it’s unclear how this compares to casting a Mac to a Imaginative and prescient Professional), reply calls from it, or share information between the headset and different gadgets.

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I’ll caveat all this with a reminder that demos are usually not the identical as residing with a tool. After we get a Galaxy XR headset in for testing, it’s attainable we’ll discover issues that tilt the stability again within the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s favor. I’m curious to see how the M5 Imaginative and prescient Professional — which matches on sale October twenty second — will fare. But when the Galaxy XR holds up as effectively in real-life testing because it has in demos, then there’s even much less motive to purchase a Imaginative and prescient Professional.

Correction, October twenty second: The headset makes use of micro-OLED, not mini-LED as initially said.

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