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Samsung will launch its extended reality headset this year, a company spokesman told CNBC on Tuesday.

The device, known as the Moohan project, is Samsung’s answer apple$3,500 Vision Pro, Launched last year.

Samsung teased the headphones last year, but showed it for the first time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year.

Samsung calls the product “Extended Reality” or XR device, aiming to merge the digital and physical worlds. However, there is little detail about the device at this time. Four cameras are visible on the front lens of the physical headset, with touch controls appearing to be on the side.

Samsung works with both Qualcomm and Google Develop a new operating system for this type of device, called the Android XR platform.

Samsung said that in December, Google Gemini will be installed in headphones, allowing wearers to experience the “conversation user interface.”

This may enable users to interact with Google’s AI assistant Gemini to help browse applications and tasks. The camera also indicates that there will be some kind of gesture control Similar to Apple’s Vision Pro.

“For me, breakthrough technology is a combination of advanced vision and intelligence that can understand user intentions. I think it’s a flawed product without the smart part,” Patrick Chomet, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile division, told CNBC in an interview Tuesday.

Chomet hints at the world envisioned by many consumer electronics companies, where smarter AI digital assistants can have a more intuitive understanding of user needs on devices.

Samsung was one of the early players in virtual reality headsets, a market that has never really deviated from the way many companies predicted. But with technology from presentation to chip field, big players touted the reality of hybrid or extended as a new field of computing.

Samsung mocks future product roadmap in January speech Flagship S25 series Smartphone. A slide for the presentation shows an outline of future devices, including the Trifold smartphone, similar to Huawei’s partner XTand Moohan headphones project.

The final product is a pair of glasses that can hint at different types of future XR headphones. Smart glasses offer a similar experience to headphones, but don’t wear bulky devices.

include Yuan,,,,, Break And Xreal Developing so-called augmented reality glasses. AR is when digital images are covered in the real world before you.

CNBC reported last year That Samsung, Qualcomm Google is collaborating on creating a set of mixed reality glasses. Samsung appears to have confirmed the collaboration at its S25 event in January.

Chomet did not give a timeline for launching glasses products. However, people may use multiple devices, he said.

“For about a considerable time, smartphones will be the most commonly used device,” Chomet said. “I’ve seen a world where people have all kinds of things, including at home, in cars. The device will help you do what you need to do.”