Samsung XR headset leak reveals potential price and release date – and it could be cheaper than the Vision Pro

• Project Moohan could launch on September 29, according to a new leak
• It will be Samsung's first Android XR headset
• Pricing may be cheaper than the Apple Vision Pro

We've been waiting a long time for Project Moohan, Samsung's first XR (extended reality) headset developed in partnership with Google. It was announced back in December, but thanks to a new leak we may now have a release date and a price for the device.

According to Newsworks (via GSMArena), Samsung is plotting another Unpacked event for Monday, September 29, to announce the Android XR headset. Sales will then follow on October 13, beginning in Samsung's home country of South Korea.

Samsung has already said the headset will be launching in the second half of 2025, so the new information fits with that. Project Moohan is just a codename though ("moohan" means "infinity" in Korean), so we're still not sure exactly what it's going to be called.

The report mentions pricing too: between 2.5 and 4 million won. Samsung won't use a direct currency conversion internationally, but for reference that's a starting price of $1,790 / £1,330 / AU$2,765 at today's rates.

Choose your reality

This is Samsung's first XR headset: the XR term encompasses both augmented reality (digital elements on top of the real world), virtual reality (completely enclosed digital worlds), and mixed reality (digital elements interacting with the real world).

In other words, XR = AR + VR + MR, so this sounds like a true all-rounder. The Meta Quest 3 is marketed as a mixed reality headset, and based on the time we've spent with Project Moohan prototypes, this new device will work in a similar way.

Apple completely ignores these terms for the Vision Pro, which it calls a "spatial computer", but it's the same sort of thing really. In our testing, we found Project Moohan to be a less premium, more lightweight take on the Apple Vision Pro approach.

We'll be able to try out the finished version of the product in the near future. It looks as though there'll be a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 processor fitted inside, together with 16GB of RAM, and Gemini AI will of course be available on board.

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