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Mixed Reality News 6 July 2025 - 22 October 2025

Samsung’s Galaxy XR Launch: 4K Mixed-Reality Headset with Gemini AI and Half-Price Vision Pro

Samsung’s Galaxy XR Launch: 4K Mixed-Reality Headset with Gemini AI and Half-Price Vision Pro

Samsung is pitching Galaxy XR as a Vision Pro rival. As Reuters notes, the $1,799 price is about half of Apple’s Vision Pro reuters.com, making XR “a strong contender in the premium VR segment,” according to Counterpoint analyst Flora Tang reuters.com. Industry observers believe Google’s deep AI integration adds significant value: Moor Insights analyst Anshel Sag points out that Google’s software might add “$1,000” of perceived value by unlocking Gemini capabilities reuters.com. (By comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy XR runs on Qualcomm’s high-end XR2+ Gen2 chip and is built with 6 pass-through cameras and color passthrough for mixed reality – specs on
22 October 2025
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XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

Apple Vision Pro, unveiled in 2023 and shipping in early 2024, uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, is powered by an M2 chip plus a custom R1 processor, offers eye and hand tracking with about 12 ms passthrough latency, an external battery delivering around 2 hours, and starts at $3,499 in the US. Meta Quest 3, released in October 2023, is a standalone VR/MR headset priced at $499 for 128GB, with 2064×2208 per-eye LCD (~25 pixels per degree), ~110° field of view, 6DoF inside-out tracking, full-color passthrough, and pancake optics that are 40% thinner. Microsoft HoloLens 2,
19 July 2025
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XR Revolution Unleashed: June–July 2025’s Biggest Extended & Mixed Reality Breakthroughs

XR Revolution Unleashed: June–July 2025’s Biggest Extended & Mixed Reality Breakthroughs

Snap announced the Specs AR glasses at AWE 2025 as a next-generation, lightweight glasses form factor due in 2026, backed by an 11-year, $3 billion investment, with Specs described as an ultra-powerful wearable computer with see-through lenses and major Snap OS updates including OpenAI and Gemini AI integration. At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled visionOS 26 for the Vision Pro headset, adding 90 Hz hand tracking, a spatial accessory API for tracked controllers, multi-user co-located experiences, enhanced RealityKit/ARKit tools, and on‑device AI branded Apple Intelligence, with Vision Pro shipping by late 2025. On June 20, 2025, Meta and EssilorLuxottica unveiled Oakley
6 July 2025
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