The long-awaited smart glasses developed by Samsung in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm will not be available until late 2025.

The latest report comes from the Korean newspaper Maeil Business Newspaper (via Jukanlosreve), which reported on a paper by a company called Wellsen XR Research. According to that report, Samsung plans to launch in the third quarter of 2025 (between July and September), with an initial production volume of 500,000 units.

This is a bit later than expected, but consistent with the possibility of a summer launch during the second Unpacked event of the year, during which Samsung typically announces next-generation foldable phones and this year's new Galaxy Ring.

Apparently, the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chip and feature a 155mAh battery and weigh 50 grams. They will also feature a 12MP Sony camera and a custom Gemini LLM developed with Google.

Many of these specifications are very familiar, as they are also found in Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses. These currently use the AR1 chip, but Qualcomm is releasing an AR2 chipset. Samsung's device appears to be slightly heavier than Ray-Ban's glasses, but the camera and battery are nearly identical.

And that will be the difference between Meta's AI and Google Gemini's, which will likely handle a variety of tasks; according to Maiele, it can be used for “QR code recognition, gesture recognition, and payments with human recognition capabilities.”

Smart glasses were teased by Qualcomm's CEO in September, when he hinted that the partnership would see mixed reality glasses on top of headsets.

Google, Qualcomm, and Samsung announced their XR platform partnership in February 2023, and Samsung and Google claimed at an Unpacked Event this July that the devices would be available in 2024. Behind the scenes, however, Samsung seems to have been fickle, pivoting back and forth in reaction to Apple's Vision Pro headset and its reported failure.

Interestingly, the report does not mention the headset. Earlier this week, a Samsung patent was discovered that revealed a VR/AR headset and a set of smart glasses. The patent seemed to indicate that the glasses could work in conjunction with a headset or as another version of a “wearable device for displaying visual objects.”

We know that Samsung is working on some sort of XR device. The company has stated so on numerous occasions. If it appears next year, the device will probably be unveiled at CES in early January or at the Samsung Galaxy S25 launch, which is expected to take place on January 23. The South Korean tech giant did something similar this year with the Galaxy Ring, teasing the smart ring at Mobile World Congress in February before launching it in July.