Samsung / Google · 2026 · AI glasses
Samsung Intelligent Eyewear
Gemini in a pair of glasses, from Samsung and Google. No display, no price.
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Samsung showed this at Galaxy Unpacked in London on 22 July 2026, having given a first look with Google at I/O in May, and the press has been calling it Galaxy Glasses ever since — Samsung has not. It is built on Android XR with Gemini as the way you use it: ask about what you are looking at, get messages summarised and read aloud, get live translation with audio matched to the speaker. There is deliberately no display. The hardware Samsung has confirmed is a Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1, a front camera with an outward privacy LED, open-ear speakers, up to nine hours of battery and a case holding seven more charges. Two frame lines were shown, one designed with Gentle Monster and one with Warby Parker, and they are one entry here rather than two because the difference between them is the shape of the rims and nothing this table measures. Samsung announced no price and no market list beyond "select markets"; the 379-to-499-dollar range in circulation is a pre-announcement rumour that survived the announcement, so it is not here.
This is not training hardware and it is not close. With no display there is no scenario to present, no checklist to overlay and nothing to guide a trainee through — the glasses are a camera, a microphone and an assistant. Where they do become relevant to an EHS department is the other direction: cameras with an always-available assistant on the faces of people walking around a plant is a question for a works council and a privacy policy long before it is a question for a training budget. The outward privacy LED is Samsung answering exactly that objection, which tells you it has already been raised.
What is known: the platform, the assistant, the chip, the battery, the two frame partners and a launch window of this autumn. What is not: the price, the markets, the weight, and whether a display version follows — a display-equipped successor has been discussed but not announced, and it is not in this database. Nothing here is a purchasing decision for a training programme. It matters because it is Samsung and Google putting Android XR on a face at scale, which is what decides how many developers the platform has in two years.
Full specification
Overview
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- Samsung / Google
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- AI glasses
- Device typeWhere the computing happens, and therefore what you need to run it.
- Phone-powered AR
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2026
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- Announced for 2026-Q4
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Company rollout
- Third-party appsHow a third party's application reaches the device: an ordinary Android package, a vendor-only SDK, or not at all.
- App lives on the phone
- Runs Skillsive appsOur own statement about whether Skillsive training applications run on it today.
- No
- Suitable for trainingOur judgement on whether it survives real deployment: comfort, hygiene, fleet management.
- Suitable for training: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Kiosk mode / MDMVendor tooling to enrol devices, push an app and lock the headset to it. Practically required above ten devices.
- No
- Business tierAn official business tier, so devices belong to the company rather than to employees’ personal accounts.
- Business tier: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Certifications: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Platform and performance
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Driven by a phone
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Processor: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- Memory: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Android XR
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- 540 min
Display and optics
- DisplayHow the image is produced. "No display" is a real answer in this category, not a gap.
- No display
- Resolution per eyePixels delivered to each eye. Higher means small text and labels stay readable.
- Resolution per eye: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- Refresh rate: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Pixel densityPixels per degree of view — the honest way to compare sharpness between a headset and a pair of glasses. Higher is sharper. Only shown where somebody published it; we never compute it ourselves.
- Pixel density: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- Weight: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
Tracking and input
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- No
Connectivity and audio
- ConnectivityHow it connects to a phone, a PC or a network.
- Connectivity: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Audio: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Microphone: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- Yes
Price
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Price band: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- Launch price: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
- Price todayApproximate current net price in USD — a general figure, since these barely differ between regions once tax is stripped out. A snapshot from the date shown, not an offer.
- Price today: Specifications checked against the manufacturer's page on 2026-08-04.
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