Samsung ‘Project Moohan’ will launch this year to rival Apple Vision Pro

Samsung will launch its extended reality headphones this year, a company spokesman said Tuesday to CNBC on Tuesday.

The device, called Project Moohan, is Samsung’s response to Apple‘S $ 3,500 vision pro, which was released last year.

Samsung made fun of the headphones last year, but exhibited it for the first time worldwide at the Mobile World Congress this year in Barcelona.

Samsung refers to the product as “extended reality” or XR device that aims to merge the digital and physical world. However, there are currently few details about the device. Four cameras are visible in the front lens of the physical headphones and there seems to be tactile controls on the side.

Samsung worked with both Qualcomm and Google Develop a new type of operating system for this type of devices, known as the Android XR platform.

In December, Samsung said Google Gemini would be installed on the headphones allowing users to experience a “conversation user interface.”

Presumably, this would allow users to interact with Gemini, Google’s assistant, to help navigate through applications and tasks. The cameras also suggest that there will be some kind of gesture control. Similar to Apple Pro’s vision.

“For me, innovative technology is a combination of advanced vision capacity with intelligence that includes the user’s intention. I think without the intelligence part, it is a defective product,” said Patrick Chomet, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile division, in an interview on Tuesday.

Chomet hinted at a world foreseen by many consumer electronics companies, where the most intelligent digital assistants can understand more intuitively the user’s requirements on a device.

Samsung was one of the first players in virtual reality headphones, a market that never removed the way many companies had predicted. But with the technology that advances in areas from screens to french fries, the big players have promoted mixed or extended reality as a new border in computer science.

Samsung joked with a future product roadmap during a January presentation when he launched his Insignia series S25 of smartphones. A submission slide showed contours of future devices, including a Trifold smartphone, similar to Mate of Huawei XTas well as the Project Moohan headphones.

The final product was a couple of glasses, which could hint a different type of future XR headphones. Smart glasses offer similar experiences to a headset but without using a voluminous device.

Companies that include Goal, Break And Xreal has been Development of the so -called augmented reality glasses. Ar is when digital images overlap in the real world in front of you.

CNBC reported last year that Samsung, Qualcomm And Google was collaborating in a set of mixed reality glasses. Samsung seemed to confirm such collaboration in the S25 event in January.

Chomet did not give a timeline for the launch of a glasses product. However, he said that people use multiple devices.

“Probably for a long time the smartphone will still be the most used device,” Chomet said. “I see a world in which people have several things, even in their home, in their car. And the device will help you achieve what you need to achieve.”