{"id":372342,"date":"2025-08-25T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372342\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:52:13","slug":"samsungs-answer-to-vision-pro-reportedly-landing-first-in-korea-this-october-for-around-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372342\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s Answer to Vision Pro Reportedly Landing First in Korea This October for Around $2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung\u2019s upcoming mixed reality headset Project Moohan has largely been out of the spotlight since its unveiling late last year. According to South Korean outlet Newsworks<\/a>\u00a0(Korean),\u00a0the headset\u2019s launch could be right around the corner.<\/p>\n

Citing industry sources,\u00a0Project Moohan is reportedly set to be featured at Samsung\u2019s upcoming Unpacked event, which is expected to take place in South Korea on September 29th.<\/p>\n

The report maintains the headset is set to launch soon thereafter, coming first to South Korea on October 13th, and later to global markets. There\u2019s no word on when or how the alleged global rollout will work.<\/p>\n

The device is expected to be priced somewhere between \u20a92.5 and \u20a94 million South Korean won, or around $1,800 and $2,900 USD, Newsworks maintains.<\/p>\n

While markedly cheaper than Apple Vision Pro, which still sells for its early 2024 launch price of $3,500, that still puts Moohan pretty squarely on the prosumer end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Samsung Project Moohan | Image courtesy The Verge<\/p>\n

Ostensibly looking to serve up competition to Vision Pro, Project Moohan is set to be the first mixed reality headset to run Google\u2019s Android XR operating system.<\/p>\n

According to its current spec sheet, the headset sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon\u202fXR2\u202f+\u202fGen\u202f2, Sony-sourced micro\u2011OLED panels (no resolution specs yet), pancake lenses, automatic interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment, and support for eye and hand-tracking.\u00a0It\u2019s also set to support\u00a0VR motion controllers of\u00a0some sort<\/a>,\u00a0although we haven\u2019t seen them yet.<\/p>\n

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Make sure to check out our\u00a0hands-on with Project Moohan<\/a>\u00a0from December 2024 to learn more, including notes on comfort, display clarity, and our experience with Android XR\u2014which really\u00a0looks a lot like Horizon OS combined with VisionOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Newsworks\u00a0reports that Samsung is only expecting to ship \u201caround 100,000 units\u201d of the device this year\u2014significantly less than Apple\u2019s alleged 2024 targets for Vision Pro, which third-party analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported last year ranged between 400\u2013450k units.\u00a0Granted, Samsung doesn\u2019t have a lot of runway left until year\u2019s end, so there\u2019s no telling what it hopes to achieve with Moohan.<\/p>\n

Still, industry sources expect Samsung\u2019s XR headset to act as more of stepping stone to its wider smart glasses ambitions, Newsworks\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

Notably, Samsung has yet to announce its own smart glasses amidst a flurry of companies looking to enter the space, including Google\u2019s Android XR smart glasses<\/a> launching in partnership with America\u2019s Warby Parker and South Korea\u2019s Gentle Monster.<\/p>\n

Following the recent launch of Oakley Meta HSTN, Meta is also reportedly expected to release a new pair of smart glasses, this time including a built-in display and wrist-worn controller, according to a recent report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi also recently launched its own smart glasses<\/a>, which go toe-to-toe with Ray-Ban Meta, although appear to be exclusive to Mainland China.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, HTC unveiled its \u2018VIVE Eagle\u2019<\/a> smart glasses, which is shipping first in the company\u2019s native Taiwan at\u00a0NT$15,600 ($520 USD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s upcoming mixed reality headset Project Moohan has largely been out of the spotlight since its unveiling late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-372342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115089502800458064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}