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Samsung is working on several XR devices – the Project Moohan headset, which it is developing in collaboration with Google, plus two more, Project Haean and Project Jinju, which should have a smart glasses form factor. These have started to crop up in the Geekbench database.
The latest is the Project Moohan headset (SM-I610), which will launch later this year, possibly under the name Galaxy XR. As expected, this is powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip that is specifically designed for XR applications.
Samsung Project Moohan (SM-I610) XR headset on Geekbench
It has six cores based on Cortex-A78C – two run at 2.36GHz and four at 2.05GHz. This is paired with an Adreno 740 GPU. By the way, the new Nintendo Switch 2 chipset from Nvidia (Tegra T239) also uses the A78C core (8 of them, at up to 1.1GHz undocked).
The chip supports low-latency full color see-through (12ms), low-latency Wi-Fi 7 connections and VR specific features like foveated rendering and Space Warp. The latter extrapolates missing frames without waiting on the GPU (or connected PC) to produce new ones, which doubles the frame rate to help performance and can reduce motion sickness (by reducing the perceived latency).
Qualcomm's Space Warp frame prediction technology
Anyway, Project Moohan is equipped with 16GB of RAM and runs Android 14 – this should be the new Android XR OS, with a fully reworked interface to handle a virtual display and hand-based controls.
Samsung Project Haean or Jinju (SM-I130) XR headset on Geekbench
There’s also the Samsung SM-I130 – we think this is either Project Haean or Jinju. It uses the same Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip, still with 16GB of RAM and Android (XR?) 14. This means that Haean/Jinju will be just as powerful as Moohan – which is a surprise since they should have thin glasses-like frames, unlike the relatively bulky Moohan goggles.
Neither Samsung nor Google set an exact date for the launch of Project Moohan, but we might hear more at the upcoming Unpacked event for the new Galaxy foldables.
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