New VR Glass 2025: Which device is to be expected?

2025 will probably be a cool year for VR hardware. Most sensation, Samsung and Google’s mixed reality headset, are likely to be the only important device confirmed for this year. With the onset of Android XR, the duality between the meta and Apple becomes a three -rastage battle that should still behave with us for many years.

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In 2025, the tendency of premium headsets and ultra-light practical devices with high-resolution OLED micro display will be uninterrupted due to their high price for most consumers.

Perhaps one or two surprises during the year, for example valves. We only expect new quest headset for next year.

Confirmed VR glasses

Samsung and Google: “Project Muhan”

Project Muhan will be the first headset based on Google’s spatial operating system Android XR. The final product name, price and release date are not yet known. We only know that the headset 2025 will be released.

The specifications are incomplete and are unveiled during the year. It is confirmed that the device depends on Qualcomm’s premium chipset Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2. Its CPU and GPU watch are 20 or 15 percent more than Snapdragon chipset in Meta Quest 3 and 3S. It also supports resolution up to 4.3k instead of 3K per eye. It is not yet known what kind of performance is established. From the optics, the Samsung pancake depends on the lens.

Project will offer color-fitthrough (Korean “) color-fitthrough and how Apple Vision Pro for mixed reality will be designed, but also supported the applications of the room for mixed reality. Another similarity is the integration of iTraking for UI navigation, favord rendering and automatic adjustment of lens distance.

In terms of comfort, Samsung and Apple decided a wired exterior battery to make the headset as easy as possible. Unlike the Vision Pro, the USB-C connection can be connected to your own battery. In the head holder, Samsung depends on a rigorous construction with a forehead shelf and is a setting wheel similar to the meta quest Pro.

Mixed reality headset can be controlled by eye and hand trekking, VR controller -Bluetooth accessories such as keyboard and mouse. It is not clear that (not shown earlier) VR controllers are separated or sold separately.

The device will support most Android apps and will also come with the original versions of Google Apps such as Maps, Photos and YouTube. The first VR Games have already been announced. A focus with which Samsung and Google want to stand out of the competition is the integration of AI assistant Gemini of Google.

Although the price is still unknown, the device should spend beyond $ 1,000 and therefore should not compete directly with the current search headset.

Uncontrolled VR Glasses

Apple Vision Pro (M5 Amendment) and a cheaper “Apple Vision”

The supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, known for its (relatively) reliable forecast, was reported last September that the Apple M5 is working on a vision Pro with the chip, which is going to start in the second half of 2025. Apart from chipset, much will not change in hardware and design, Kuo says. This suggests that this is more than an amendment compared to the Apple Vision Pro2. The original Apple Vision Pro was released on February 2, 2024 with an M2 chipset which was already old at that time.

According to a report by the information, work on a full heir was initially laid as the Apple wanted to focus on developing a cheaper version of the headset. According to the website, it is planned for the end of 2025. There are various, sometimes contradictory reports of how Apple wants to reduce manufacturing costs and how much the device should spend.

Since the M5 chip is probably presented only at the end of the year and Apple has allegedly difficult to create a cheap vision, it is doubtful whether we can expect a new vision product this year.

Horizon-OS headset from Asus and Lenovo

Meta announced in April 2024 that the horizon OS (operating system of meta quest) selected hardware partners would be licensed to develop this special VR headset.

At that time, Meta called two partners: Asus and Lenovo. While Lenovo, according to Meta, works on a mixed reality tool for productivity, learning, and entertainment, the Asas focuses on the “Performance Gaming Headset” under the Asas ROG (Republic of Gamers). Asas’s co-CEO promised “the next generation gaming headset”.

Since the announcement of Metas, nothing has been officially heard of these projects. At the beginning of the year, VR enthusiast Luna allegedly learned the first details about the upcoming ASUS headset. It is to be developed under the code name “Tarius”, from which Asus plans to integrate eye and facetracking. QD-LCDs with either local diming, similar to meta quest pro, or comparable, oled microdesplay, display of Apple Vision Pro, are provided as displays.

If the rumors come true, the first horizon can be the OS device since the Asus Headset Meta Quest Pro that provides eye and facetracking. The Meta Quest Pro was taken from the market at the beginning of the year. The price of the Asus headset will probably be much higher than the meta quest 3, especially if OLED microdesplay is used.

At present, there is no evidence of when Metas partner will come to the headset market. 2025 will be favorable for meta as the horizon OS -based project can counter a premium headset. If the devices come up to 2026 or 2027, like Quest 4, they should already use the next generation chipset of Snapdragon.

Valve Index 2 (“Decard”)

The original valve index will be six years old in summer. Although there have been rumors about the successor of code name Decard for many years, we are still waiting for an announcement or concrete leak that is beyond the information in the SteamVR code.

At the end of 2024, VR enthusiast Brad Lynch again heated the rumor mill. His team of Dataminers found 3D models of new VR controllers with code name Roy and Lynch in the steamvi code in the SteamVR code, in the appeal, in the appeal, it was reported on his own sources that the valve is currently preparing large -scale production of controllers.

Decard and Roy: Code Name is an alliance for the hero and opponent of the Science-Fi film blade blade runner of the same name and it is clear that the controller and headset are in the market at the same time.

Currently only the properties of the headset can be estimated. Since the buttons of the new VR controllers are more oriented towards a classic gamepad, Decard can become a “steam deck” for the face, with which the steam library can be played on the virtual large screen. The PC-VR game should be streamful wirelessly in the headset or, thanks to an integrated chipset, walk freely on the device.

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More VR candidates in quick run

Self -reliant premium headset from HTC

While presenting Snapdragon XR2+ in early 2024, it was said that HTC developed a headset based on the premium chipset. In September, the company surprised with the HTC Vive Focus Vision, which rely on the old Snapdragon XR2 General 1.

Is a premium headset planned or have HTC opened the project after Google handled parts of the HTC Vive team? 2025 should bring clarity.

Immersed

Immermed Visor is an easy productivity headset for the VR app of the same name, which rely on an external battery along with XR2+ Gen 2, 4K-OLED Microdisplays, RGB-PASSTHUGH, EYE and Hand Tracking as well as an external battery.

A unsuccessful press performance in the summer of 2024 raised doubts about the implementation of the project and although the headset could be prejuded, it is still not clear what, when and in what form the headset comes to the market.

Pimax Dream Air

Wired PC-VR headsets were declared at the end of 2024 and to be given from May 2025 if the pimax could follow the deadline.

It provides 4k-Ald Microdisplays, Eyetracking, Integrated Room Tracking and VR controller and is said to have less than 200 grams. You can find more information in Pimax Dream Air Mixed.D.,

Play for dream

Self -reliant headset from China, which is soft and firmly inspired by Apple Vision Pro in Hardware, created a positive report on CES 2025.

This premium chipset uses Snapdragon XR2+ genes, pancake lens, 4k-al a Microdisplays, passhrough and eyetracking and comes with its own VR controllers. The operating system has its own development of an Android.

Supporters of Kickstarter Campaign One should get your headset from March. The regular price will be around $ 2,000.

Shiftall Meganex 8k Superlite

Former Panasonic Start-Up Shift opened a pre-order for new, super-light PC-VR headset in late 2024.

Meganx Superlite 8K has installed pancake lens and 4K micro-oleled displays and provides a flip-up mechanism to bend the visor, which weighs 185 grams.

The Steamvr headset costs 1,900 euros, the base station, controller and audio solutions are not included. According to the current situation, delivery should begin in March 2025.

Sony SRH-S1 and Xyn

The mixed reality headset SRH-S1, which was first introduced in CES 2024, was developed in association with Siemens and is aimed at industrial purposes. From February 2025 it will be given to interested companies for $ 4,750.

The device comes as a style and ring with a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, 4K-AlEd Microdisplays, a flip-up and two unusual VR controllers.

On CES 2025, Sony tease another headset called Xyn, which externally reminds the SRH-S1, but adapted to other applications: capture and manufacture of spatial content. It is still not clear at present when this headset will appear and how much it will cost.

(Vza)