Rumors of some kind of smart glasses from Samsung have been circulating for years, but it looks like the wait for a real device will soon be over: Samsung has filed to register “Samsung Glasses” as a trademark in Britain.
This comes from UploadVR (through Android Central), and the submission comes with a description of the categories the product covers: virtual reality headsets, augmented reality headsets, headphones, smartphones and smart glasses.
That covers a lot of ground. Virtual reality or VR means fully enclosed digital experiences, augmented reality or AR means looking at the real world with digital images on top of it, mixed reality or MR is enhanced AR where the digital elements and real elements interact, and extended reality or XR is used to mean VR, AR and MR all together.
Exactly which category the Samsung glasses fall into remains to be seen, but we know the company is working on several products that offer these technologies, having previously been responsible for the Samsung Gear VR.
What to expect
Samsung itself has confirmed that it has an
The term ‘glasses’ doesn’t really sound like headphones anyway. Could it be that Samsung is also working on some AR specs? We’ve seen suggestions of this in previous years, but no confirmation from Samsung itself.
Or maybe we’re talking about more basic smart glasses: capable of taking photos and videos, a smart assistant on board, but no fancy augmented reality. For Meta’s recent entry in this product category, see our Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review.
At the moment it is not yet clear what exactly you can expect, but it looks like Samsung will soon launch a device that you can wear on your face. The next big launch event should be sometime in January for the Samsung Galaxy S24 phone.
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