We’re anticipating a Samsung XR/VR headset within the close to future – that is prolonged actuality and/or digital actuality – and a brand new leak offers us a greater thought of the show specs the {hardware} system may convey together with it.
In accordance with Daily Korea (by way of SamMobile), the headset will use a micro-OLED show provided by Sony, with a dimension of 1.3 inches, a decision of three,840 x 3,552 pixels, a refresh fee of 90 frames per second, and a most brightness of 1,000 nits.
For comparability, the Meta Quest 3 headset launched final yr gives a decision of two,064 x 2,208 pixels per eye, an experimental 120Hz refresh fee mode, and a 90Hz commonplace refresh fee mode. The dimensions of the shows is not specified, however they use LCD know-how, and you may learn our ideas on it in our Meta Quest 3 review.
As for the Apple Vision Pro, inside that exact system we have got micro-OLED tech. Apple would not specify a decision, however does say there are 23 million pixels throughout each shows, and the refresh fee goes as much as 100Hz. As our Apple Vision Pro review will inform you, it gives fairly spectacular visible efficiency.
Coming quickly?
Samsung introduced it was engaged on an XR headset all the way in which again initially of 2023, with Google and Qualcomm serving to out. It is but to see the sunshine of day although – there have been rumors that the launch of the Imaginative and prescient Professional gave Samsung executives sufficient meals for thought that they determined to take extra time over their very own system.
Prolonged actuality or XR, when you’re unfamiliar, is the catch-all time period for digital actuality (solely enclosed digital worlds), augmented actuality (digital components laid on prime of the true world), and blended actuality (digital components and the true world interacting in additional life like methods, like an upgraded augmented actuality).
To this point we have seen a battery leak, bought affirmation that the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2 chipset will energy the system, and… that is been about it for specs and options. There’ve been extra leaks concerning a launch, which could happen within the second half of the yr,
Particularly, that might mean July. Samsung held an Unpacked launch occasion in July 2023, and is predicted to do the identical this yr, giving full unveilings to the Galaxy Z Fold 6, the Galaxy Z Flip 6, the Galaxy Watch 7, the Galaxy Ring, and doubtless extra apart from.
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