{"id":307024,"date":"2025-10-16T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:24:12","slug":"samsung-to-launch-project-moohan-xr-headset-at-galaxy-event-on-october-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307024\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung to Launch Project Moohan XR Headset at Galaxy Event on October 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung announced it\u2019s holding a Galaxy Event on October 21st, which will feature Project Moohan, the company\u2019s long-awaited Apple Vision Pro competitor.<\/p>\n

The News<\/p>\n

The livestream event is slated to take place on October 21st at 10PM ET (local time here<\/a>), which is said to focus on \u201cthe future of AI\u201d and Project Moohan.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome meet the first official device on Android XR\u2014Project Moohan,\u201d the video\u2019s description reads.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no official indication yet on what the headset will be priced, or even officially named at this point. A\u00a0previous report<\/a>\u00a0from South Korea\u2019s Newsworks suggests it could cost somewhere between \u20a92.5 and \u20a94 million South Korean won, or between $1,800 and $2,900 USD.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s event site<\/a> does however allow users to register for a $100 credit, valid when purchasing qualifying Galaxy products.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re hoping to learn more about the headset\u2019s specs and\u00a0promised\u00a0VR motion controllers<\/a>,\u00a0which Samsung has yet to reveal.<\/p>\n

Since our previous hands-on<\/a> from last year, we\u2019ve learned Project Moohan includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon\u202fXR2\u202f+\u202fGen\u202f2, dual micro\u2011OLED panels, pancake lenses, automatic interpupillary distance (IPD) adjustment, support for eye and hand-tracking, optional magnetically-attached light shield, and a removable external battery pack.<\/p>\n

My Take<\/p>\n

Personally, the teaser doesn\u2019t really serve up the sort of \u201cwow\u201d factor I was hoping for, as it highlights some fairly basic stuff seen in XR over the past decade. Yes, it\u2019s actually has been that long.<\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t expect Moohan to stop at a\u00a0Google Earth VR-style map and immersive video\u2014neat as those things are\u2014it\u2019s interesting to me the company thought those two things were worthy additions to a launch day teaser for its first XR headset since the release of Samsung Odyssey+ in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Smasung Odyssey+ | Image courtesy Samsung<\/p>\n

As the first official headset supporting Google\u2019s Android XR operating system though, I expect the event will also focus on Moohan\u2019s ability to not only use the standard library of Android apps and native XR stuff, but also XR productivity\u2014provided Samsung really wants to go toe-to-toe with Vision Pro.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, Moohan is a capable XR headset, but I wonder how much gas Samsung will throw at it now that Apple is reportedly shifting priorities<\/a> to focus on Meta-style smart glasses instead of developing a cheaper and lighter Vision Pro. While Apple is launching Vision Pro\u2019s M5 hardware refresh on October 22nd<\/a>, that could leave Samsung to navigate a potentially awkward middle ground between Meta and Apple.<\/p>\n

Moohan\u2019s market performance may also dictate how other manufacturers adopt Android XR. And there\u2019s worrying precedent. Google did the same thing with Lenovo Mirage Solo in 2018, which was supposed to be the first headset to support its Android-based Daydream platform before Google pulled the plug due to poor engagement. Here\u2019s to hoping history doesn\u2019t repeat itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung announced it\u2019s holding a Galaxy Event on October 21st, which will feature Project Moohan, the company\u2019s long-awaited…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-307024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115381709454647079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}