Samsung opens pre-orders for Intelligent Eyewear glasses

Samsung has opened pre-orders for its Intelligent Eyewear smart glasses, first announced in July. The company is offering 30 distinct designs developed in collaboration with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and orders are now being accepted in the two launch markets.

Pricing starts at $395. The glasses will be sold in South Korea and the United States, with sales through select Samsung retail stores, Warby Parker retail and online channels in the U.S., and Gentle Monster's online store.

Hardware and software

The Intelligent Eyewear run on Google's Android XR platform and include cameras, microphones and speakers, with access to Google Gemini. The on-board cameras are intended to give the AI assistant visual context for tasks such as turn-by-turn navigation, real-time translation, contextual information about surroundings and note-taking.

Samsung says the glasses use Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chipset and include a battery of unspecified capacity; the company claims a battery life of up to nine hours on a charge. Further technical and hands-on details for the Gentle Monster and Warby Parker models were covered following the July announcement.

General availability begins on December 10 in South Korea and the United States.