But having had a chance to wear a Project Moohan headset and even experience running a few apps on the device, I at least have a better sense of what you'll be able to do with Samsung's product once it arrives later this year.

It will be the first Android XR headset. Samsung announced its first Android XR headset, Project Moohan, last December. It was then showcased at the

Project Aura is made to be tethered, not standalone, and is much more compact than recent glasses from Samsung and Apple.

It's clear that Google is working hard to catch up with both Apple and Meta, which actually have XR products on the shelves already. Given that Google tends to kill its ambitious projects with a swiftness — just take a look at Google Glass,

Forget about your feeble 140 DPI, 1,000 nit, 4K OLED monitors, Samsung has just announced a new OLED panel with 5,000 pixels per inch capable of 15,000 nits and beyond 8K resolution. Oh, and it measures just 1.

Apple's Vision Pro currently displays 3,386ppi, so Samsung's RGB OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) tech promises to push the boundaries of VR headsets with even more lifelike visuals.

Samsung is offering two versions of its headset. There's a 15,000-nit variant that delivers up to 5,000 PPI, and there's a 20,000-nit model boasting a 4,200

“This could indicate that Shiftly can provide plausible haptic feedback for a wide range of surface geometries,” says Tobias Batik, an associate researcher at the Complexity Science Hub. Batik started work on Shiftly for his master’s thesis with the Virtual & Augmented Reality Group at TU Wien, in Austria.

For example, a Valve Deckard proof of concept was a standalone design (rather than tethered) and reportedly offered 2K LCD panels for its display setup, and was powered by a SnapDragon 8 Gen 3 – the same chipset as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra (via Upload VR ).