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Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset

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169 points thelastgallon | 9 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source | bottom
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turblety ◴[22 Oct 25 17:30 UTC] No.45672393[source]▶
I think this is really cool, and the more competition and devices in this space the better. But absolutely no way I will spend that much money for a Google product, that they'll probably kill off in less than a year.
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1. gundmc ◴[22 Oct 25 17:31 UTC] No.45672407[source]▶
It's a Samsung product though
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2. jsheard ◴[22 Oct 25 17:32 UTC] No.45672428[source]▶
Yeah but it's built around the Android XR platform, a Google product. If Google kills XR then the hardware won't be much use.
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3. throwaway314155 ◴[22 Oct 25 17:36 UTC] No.45672480[source]▶
That doesn't make it a Google product.
4. turblety ◴[22 Oct 25 17:37 UTC] No.45672491[source]▶
Yeah, fair point, although it's this Android XR thing I don't trust will live a year.

Even if it did, to me Samsung + Google is just a no go:

Samsung: Bloated with apps I don't want, can't uninstall but probably won't be killed off.

Google: Lean, not too much bloat, but can't trust it to exist more than a year.

5. numpad0 ◴[22 Oct 25 17:41 UTC] No.45672549[source]▶
Google loves to make impactful changes for street creds, hardware manufacturers prefer not to support unsold products. The end result is the same.
6. Jepacor ◴[22 Oct 25 17:41 UTC] No.45672550[source]▶
Samsung has already partnered with Microsoft in the past to make WMR headsets, and that did not prevent Windows 11 from dropping support for the device. The very same could happen to a Android-based headset.
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7. dotnet00 ◴[22 Oct 25 18:15 UTC] No.45673041[source]▶
I wonder if Samsung has secured promises of commitment. IIRC they required Google to commit to improving Android's support for tablets before committing to devices like the Z Fold.
8. Groxx ◴[22 Oct 25 18:51 UTC] No.45673504[source]▶
I'm not really seeing how re-emphasizing Google's involvement implies a reduced chance of abandonment. Google's kinda famous for that.
9. SunlitCat ◴[22 Oct 25 19:24 UTC] No.45673940[source]▶
And additionally, Samsung never released their Odyssey VR (or it's successor) worldwide, which in my opinion was the reason WMR failed as it was the best of the WMR headsets at the time of their release (of course the HP Reverb was better, but it came out much later).