I've been told that inside this box is concrete proof that no matter how bad
Apple's idea is, no matter how colossal
Apple's failure, Samsung will never miss
an opportunity to copy their home. Okay,
it's the Galaxy XR. Samsung's spin on
the Apple Vision Pro. And to their credit, there are some things to like
about it immediately. For one thing,
while the front looks very similar with its eight outward- facing cameras, six
for positional tracking, and then two for high quality pass through, it
doesn't have the creepy like eye pass
through thing. That sucked and added additional weight. And to their credit,
it seems a little bit less heavy. Hey,
is that an Apple Vision Pro? Can I see it?
Yeah, not by enough that it's likely to make a huge difference, but at least
it's less expensive, coming in at around half of the price of the Apple Vision
Pro. With that said, I feel like the functionality might be somewhere on the
order of half as well. Instead of using Apple's extremely powerful M series
silicon, it uses a Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2, which to its credit, Qualcomm
claims is much faster than last gen, about 20% on the CPU and 15% faster on
the GPU. but it ain't an M5. Let's take a look at the rest of the exterior. So,
also in the front is a depth sensing camera that's supposed to help map out
the world around you. So, your floor, ceiling, walls, that sort of thing. Two
of those outwardly facing spatial cameras seem to be dedicated to hand
gestures. So, of course, it's a 2026
product, which means it's chalk full of AI, including Gemini integration, as
well as AI assisted motion controls.
Though to Samsung's credit, they do give you the option of using controllers.
Then again, so does the Apple Vision Pro now. And the cost of Samsung's
first-party controllers is about the same as the cost of the PSVR2
controllers that you need for the Vision Pro. What else we got here? Ah, yes,
four inward-facing eyetracking cameras.
These are for gaze detection as well as interfacing with the menu, which I
haven't tried yet, but I am really looking forward to. Couple of stereo
speakers. one of these ratcheting style headbands
as well as now I saw in my notes there's supposed to be like a removable oh yeah
there you go removable gaskets so you can decide if you want more of a
completely immersed VR experience or more of a mixed reality XR experience
but apparently everything is XR now I don't know since we're in here though
one of the biggest highlights is of course the screens regardless of what
label you find on the outside of a box. If it's got a screen on it, Samsung is
very likely responsible for it if it's on the cutting edge. And this is on the
cutting edge. We've got two 4K micro
OLED displays that run at anywhere from 60 to up to 90 hertz depending on the
experience and your settings. Was someone using this already
>> or another reviewer? >> Did they wear a lot of makeup?
>> Was it a lady? >> That's after I cleaned it, too. >> Really?
Huh? How about that? I don't think this brown marking here is a foundational
part of the product.
It's unfortunate we can see it there. In spite of Belle's efforts to cover up
its presence,
we've got spacers here. So, depending on how close you like the lenses to sit to
your eyes, you can either put a thick one, a thin one, or no spacer at all. I
don't know if I'm going to get away with no spacer because of my uh
lashes. I hate it when they smudge up the lenses, but the closer you can get
them to your eyes, the better your field of view and the better your immersion.
So, I'm going to I'm going to try for it. Was there something that used to be
here? Who knows? Cuz we're the second ones to
unbox this. Comes with a cleaning cloth.
Apple would charge you $50 for this. I don't know if Samsung could say that's
like a $50 value in the box, though, cuz
they don't charge that much for their cleaning cloth. Oh, speaking of ideas
they got from Apple, what do we got here? We've got a type-C to type-C cable
that we can use for charging the Yep,
you heard it here first, external power brick.
Love it. To their credit, it's kind of cool that the cable's detachable. That's
That's nice. Which means you can use it for other devices if you want to. So,
you just charge this thing up and it's basically just a battery bank. Then,
when you want to use your Galaxy XR, you pop this locking type C in here. Oh,
yeah. That's pretty nice. Okay. And then
you clip this onto the side of the unit.
Four microphones.
ventilation for cooling. There's apparently a touch interface. This must
be it. I haven't tried it yet, but we'll give that a shot. Is it six microphones?
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description. >> I can immediately tell that Samsung is a
South Korean company. you know, in my usual way that I can
tell with anything that goes on my face, they did not account for a more um
prominent human horn. So, it just like rests like on my nose.
Oh, calibrate eye tracking. Yeah, we can do that. Okay. Do I? Of course, it's the
same gesture as Apple because why would it be a different gesture? Apple already figured it out. They solved the problem
for you, Samsung. So, this was how I opened up the home menu and then
eyetracking and then Oh. Oh, and that's
a pointer dot, not a gaze dot. I don't
mind that. Oh, this is a good opportunity to show you guys the hand
tracking. So, maybe we can sync up what you guys are seeing and what the
camera's see. Okay, that >> there's nobody there. I'm on a beach by
myself. Okay, I'm I'm touching the sand. Relax. Anyone ever wonder why this never
took off as an interface? Oh, right.
because resting your hand like this is just
way easier. Okay.
Hand for gesture navigation. Oh, right hand or left hand. The hand interface is
okay. Let's switch over to gaze for a bit. The
gaze is a little bit slow. I guess I haven't really talked about the pass
through quality yet. It's fine.
Yeah, I would even say pretty good. Ooh,
you can get notifications from your phone on it, assuming you have a Galaxy
phone. And oh, this is another important thing to talk about. While you can use
it as a as a as a virtual screen for your device right now, that seems to be
mostly supported on Samsung Galaxy Books, which anyone know anyone with a
Samsung Galaxy Book? >> No. >> Yeah. Is is not most people. or there's
a beta app that allows you to do it on other devices. And that just came out
like a week ago. So, I'm going to try that in a little bit. First, I want to
go with some kind of native experience here just so I can evaluate the screens
a little bit better. Okay. Which of these avatars looks most like me? I'm
thinking this one. No, probably not. Probably this one.
>> Yeah. See, this is the kind of thing that just
Apple gets right and the people who copy them don't. I'm clicking on this avatar.
My intent is very clear, right? But no,
I have to glance down there and select it. The first option is a fursuit for
outfit. At least they know their audience.
And a whole bunch of the other options are fursuit stuff. Amazing. Amazing.
Also, skin tight leather.
Damn, Samsung. Good gravy.
Oh, man. When you close an app, it just kind of dumps you into pass through,
which kind of makes sense. Hey, this is something it's got over the Vision Pro,
at least when it launched as a native YouTube app. All right, let's try some
just some of the basic stuff. Okay, I want to make a window bigger. Okay.
Whoa. Oh, that's pretty nice. There we
go. All right, let's put that giant screen over there, man. That's pretty
nice looking. Okay, there. Strong spatiality. That sounds like it's coming
from behind me. Oh, it pauses when you look away. Okay, you know what? I don't
mind that. I can't say I love that glancing around at the interface means
that it never goes away. So, if something's bothering you and you're
like, "Oh man, that annoying interface. I can't stop looking at it. It will just simply never go away. There. If we
click. There we go. These screens are incredible. The pass through cameras do
not do them justice at all. Man, if I
lived alone and I had a smaller nose,
there would just be no reason to have a giant TV at all, cuz this is just plain
as good or better. Okay, let's fire up Google Maps. I really am getting that
bulged out toward me sense. I I don't I don't know what it is.
It does not look flat though, and I
don't remember noticing anything like that on the Vision Pro. Oh, yeah.
Immersive view. Here we go. But whoa, buddy.
I am going to enjoy this for as long as I can.
Not going to lie, little bit disorientating.
This feels like playing with miniatures
more than I think anything I've ever
tried. Oh, I'll add a 3D effect to a photo.
Sure. Here's a random selfie from a previous ShortCircuit. Okay, go
immersive. It's spatial view. Here we go. Let it cook. Okay. Yep. It did some
background separation. Left some of my hair behind me there. Uh, honestly,
worse than I expected. Cool. Why don't we try a game? And the strap is um not
the most comfortable thing. There isn't really a ton of foam here and it is
resting on my nose a little. I'd say motion sickness is pretty good when I'm
just using pass through and whatnot. Google Maps was a little bit nauseating.
Like I don't think I could be in here for another 2 hours, but I'm okay. Oh
wow. Yeah, this is a game sort of.
How do you defeat a worm like that? All right. Neat. Yeah, that's
going to be big fat. No thanks. PC Connect beta. This item isn't available
in your country. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Well, thanks a lot, Google. Okay.
Allows you to use your Galaxy XR as a
monitor on your Windows PC. Allows you to play games over Wi-Fi 7. That may
work pretty decent. And I can't do it. Unfortunately,
with these displays being as good as they are, I could see something like this being quite usable as long as you
put on some music to drown out these fans. The seal's pretty good at the nose
to their credit. That's pretty cool. But it actually leaks quite a bit here,
which is unfortunate. Okay. Um, this is
a cool tutorial. They kind of have you
use, you know, pointing interactions and gaze and you kind of calibrate
everything. And um
that's about as long as I can stay in this headset for today. I think I think
the last thing I'll try then is searching for something in the real
world with Gemini. So, let's go here.
Let's go here. Move it up a bit. I mean,
that's not really going to be comfortable, but sure. Oh, I never
taught about the touch controls. So, you can uh long press to center, and then
you can double tap to turn the virtual environment on or off, which I can't do
right now cuz I'm using Gemini. Okay. Turn on captions. Okay. Share view with
Gemini. Allow. What am I holding right now? >> Okay. You're holding a screwdriver. Do
you need any help with it? >> I need to know where to get another one.
Screwdrivers like that are pretty common. You can find them at most
hardware stores. >> Hardware store? What kind of suggestion is that? No, I want this specific one.
>> You might have luck finding it at hardware stores like Home Depot or Canadian Tire or by searching online for
a black and orange multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. Does that help?
>> No, that doesn't help. You do it for me. Find a black and orange multi-bit
screwdriver that looks exactly like this one. It's checking. My screen recording
is not working, which I suspect is because Gemini needs it. I don't know
that for sure, though. It looks like your video recording isn't working right now.
>> Oh my god. No, no, we're not talking about that right now. We're talking
about finding this screwdriver. >> Based on what I found, it looks like it
could be an LTT multi-bit ratcheting screwdriver. >> Yes, that sounds pretty good. Hey, it
thought maybe it's an LTT screwdriver. Where can I get one?
>> You can find the LT screwdriver on the official LT store website. I'm happy to
open the website for you if you'd like. >> Yeah. Can you open that website? Look at
that. Okay. Can you navigate to the
region that I'm in? >> I can't directly interact. >> Nope. It can't interact with websites.
All right, fine. Once again, an AI assistant does a fraction of the things
that you would want it to do, but hey, that's better than nothing. I Oh my god,
it's still talking. You'd think it would detect that I've taken it off my head.
I'm not talking to it anymore. Hold on, I got to turn it off.
40% battery. How long were we here? So, you probably get like two, two and a
half hours out of it. about like Samsung says. There you have it. Galaxy XR
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