Samsung Android XR Headset Could Cost as Much as the Apple Vision Pro

Samsung’s upcoming Android XR project is turning heads, not just because it has a variety of Vision Pro-like features, but because it may have even better displays than Apple’s $3,500 headset. That’s not necessarily a good thing. It would mean Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ could cost well over $1,000 just to stick a computer on your face. If Apple’s headset has taught us anything, it’s that few people want to spend anything more than $500 on a VR device. As first spotted by 9to5Google, Korean tech news site The Elec reported based on anonymous industry sources that Samsung’s upcoming XR (extended reality) project has large and dense displays. As read with machine translation, The Elec claims the displays on its upcoming Android XR headset are 1.3-inch OLEDOS (OLED on Silicon) panels with a pixel density of 3,800 PPI, or pixels per inch. Compare that to the $500 Meta Quest 3’s displays at 1,200 PPI, and it’s already impressive. More importantly, it’s even more dense than the Apple Vision ... Read full article.