Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: Screenless Smart Glasses Arrive with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster
Samsung finally showed its hand at Galaxy Unpacked in London — Galaxy Glasses, built in partnership with fashion eyewear brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, designed to look like anything but a tech product.
Three Key Takeaways
No screen — that's the core design decision. Like Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, Galaxy Glasses skip the built-in display entirely, relying on voice interaction and AI for most functionality. They run Google's Android XR platform with Gemini AI baked in, enabling voice queries, real-time translation, and navigation. A 12-megapixel camera sits inside the frame for photos and video.
Two fashion collabs, nine hours of battery life. The Warby Parker style goes for understated sophistication — brown frames with a subtly upswept brow line. The Gentle Monster edition opts for sleek black with a slim, fashion-forward silhouette. Samsung managed to squeeze nine hours of battery into the frames, enough to cover a full workday. Expected to ship this fall; pricing not yet announced.
Z Fold 8 Ultra and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 also launched. The Z Fold 8 Ultra features a shorter, wider form factor that Samsung expects to make it the best-selling Fold yet. The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Galaxy Watch 9 were also refreshed with enhanced health monitoring capabilities.
WangDou's Take
The smart glasses lane is getting crowded: Meta's Ray-Ban has already moved millions of units, Apple's Vision Pro is stuck in its own high-end bubble, and now Google and Samsung are both jumping in. But the most interesting thing about Samsung's entry is what it doesn't have — no screen. This isn't a tech limitation; it's Samsung reading the room correctly: AR display technology can't yet deliver something that's both light and good-looking at a consumer price point. Rather than building a 500-gram headset that gives people a headache after 20 minutes like Vision Pro, Samsung chose to ship a normal-looking pair of glasses and let AI voice handle the core use cases. The Warby Parker and Gentle Monster partnerships drive the point home — tech companies are finally admitting that glasses are a fashion item first, a compute platform second. Nine hours of battery also clears the critical threshold: if it lasts a full day, it won't end up in a drawer. But the Gizmodo reporter's experience says it all — Samsung let people touch the glasses but not wear them. Before the fall launch, real-world comfort is the test that actually matters.
Source: Samsung Newsroom, Android Central, Gizmodo