Microsoft has reportedly struck a take care of Samsung for OLED panels that might energy a brand new line of blended actuality headsets. Korean outlet The Elec reported earlier this week that (as per a machine translation) the partnership remains to be in its very early phases, with mass manufacturing not began till 2026. A supply instructed the outlet the order could possibly be for “tons of of 1000’s” of items and that the gadget can be targeted on watching flatscreen gaming and video content material, not “metaverse” engagement.
Samsung introduced in 2023 that it will accomplice with Google (whose AR/VR historical past can be fairly rocky) and Qualcomm on a brand new headset, which has been rumored to indicate up across the finish of this 12 months. Microsoft, in the meantime, has been pushing its apps towards the Meta Quest headset for a number of years. It’s an thrilling quantity of potential competitors for the blended actuality area — if any of those headsets really make it out the door.
