Google Unveils Mixed-Reality Headset With Samsung, Taking on Apple and Meta
- Google aims to mimic phone success with Android XR software
- Samsung headset coming next year with Vision Pro-like features
The companies are showcasing Android XR to potential partners at a developer-focused event in New York on Thursday.
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a joint push into the mixed-reality market, introducing a new operating system and headset in a bid to challenge devices from Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.
In what they called a collaboration as “one team,” the two companies announced a version of Google’s Android software for XR — shorthand for extended reality, which refers to a range of virtual- and augmented-reality technologies. They also showed off a Samsung-built headset code-named Project Moohan, taken from the Korean word for “infinite.”