According to a new report, Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses being developed in collaboration with Google won’t arrive until the second half of 2025, but they will share some specs with the popular Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Research coming out of China from Wellsen XR reveals some new details about Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses. The report, marked by @Jukanlosreve and Mail Business Newspaperreveals that Samsung is planning an initial production run of these smart glasses that would include 500,000 units, and that they would be released in Q3 2025. That’s later than expected, but in line with what Samsung teased in October.

The glasses will apparently be powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset, the same chip used in the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses – the generation used is not mentioned, but Qualcomm had already released AR2 in 2022.

That’s not the only spec the two devices share, as the report also claims that Samsung’s glasses will have a 12MP camera and a 155mAh battery, the same (give or take 1mAh) as Ray-Ban’s glasses. In terms of weight, the glasses would weigh 50g, ever so slightly more than the Ray-Ban Meta.

One of the big questions surrounding Samsung’s XR glasses has been whether or not they would have a screen, and that doesn’t seem to be the case based on this report. Matching the weight and battery size of the Ray-Ban Meta while adding a screen would be…impressive, to say the least. With this report revealing hardware specs, it strongly suggests that this product simply won’t include a display if you skip any mention of a display.

However, we do get an indication of what these glasses will be capable of. Gemini would handle AI tasks along with support for “payment,” QR code recognition, “gesture recognition,” and “human recognition features.” It’s not entirely clear what all of these features will do, but it suggests a product that’s a bit more capable than Meta’s offering. Meta using AI on their glasses to utilize the camera for multimodal analysis and response (and scan QR codes), set reminders and Meta has teased translation functions.

We’ll have a while to wait for these glasses to debut if the Q3 2025 date turns out to be true, but it seems possible that Samsung would tease the product well ahead of launch as it did with the Galaxy Ring earlier this year. A tease at Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launches in January is not excluded.

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