Galaxy XR Headset Codenamed ‘Project Moohan’ Gets Its First Hands-On Video, Prototype Features Similar External Battery Puck To Apple Vision Pro, With Improved Software & More

Its such a weird ass nothing burger of a product.

Like i get it why it exists. Display- and lenstech are getting at a point where textclarity is good enough. Mobile chipsets can provide enough standalone performance for most office workloads. If you need the added processinh power of a workstation wireless displaystreaming is at a fairly mature point for 2D content when it comes to the lack of compression artifacts and the latency is solid enough. Passthrough is at a workable state, too.

Gaming wasnt the killer feature for VR for several reasons. So parroting apple and pivoting to this whole AR computing device schtick is understandable(ish).

But i watched both the initial AndroidXR Google presentation last month and now the shitty influencer marketing video of MHKBD and their messaging is so weird. The big sellingpoints are: You have Gemini AI, the Playstore is preinstalled with which you can ask Gemini AI to install new apps, Gemini AI also works with the preinstalled Google apps. Did we mention Gemini AI yet? Chill the f- out.

Look i own and use VR-Headset for 6 years now. I follow the subject since the Oculus DK1 was first announced. I like the tech. But there is nothing coming from either Google nor Samsung which makes me excited for the future of AndroidXR. Because i tried to work with a VR Headset. My current one has enough pixel density, pancake lenses and is consired one of the most comfortable on the market. Its utter shit. Waving your hands around in a 3D space isnt a good UX for 90% of the time. Having a device strapped to your head isnt comfortable. Battery life of like 2 hours is a joke if you want to get shit done. Having a cable strapped to your head mounted device for added battery life is even worse. Do you remember how we all happily traded our audio devices for wireless ones because its soooo much more comfortable? Yeah... The resolution still isnt great enough to combat eyestrain over long periods of time. The list goes on. Sure there are obviously some usecases where hmds can provide a real benefit. But for now most stuff is pretty niche. But i'm pretty sure circling your hands in the air so you can ask a LLM about the shoes your wearing isnt solving problems we encounter in our worklife. As a life style product? Give me some fucking entertainment, man? But not a single word about that so far.

Then have you tried to actually work with Android? I tried it several times with the desktop modes like DEX or Ready For... Its not great for abundance of reasons.

Then there is no confidence in google left. Like we all know they will kill off AndroidXR in 4 years. If not before that. If you could bet on it the quotes would be so bad it would probably better to just invest the money in s&p500.

Also i see no attempts at establishing an open plattform like android used to be. Every big corp wants to be the monopoly holder of a closed gardedn of the next big tech revolution. So they can pump ads directly into our eyeballs. Fuck this shit.